preservation. This number contains fifty-two origi nal drawings, by Thomas Moran, Oliver Herford, Dan Beard, H. M. Eaton, F. G. Attwood, F. O. Small, F. Lix, J. H. Dolph, and Rosina Emmett Sherwood, besides six reproductions of famous re cent works of art, and forty other interesting illustra tions — ninety-eight in all.
Harper's maintains its reputation as " the best collection of short stories." The May number con tains three, each treating a phase of American life, and each widely different from the others in scene and manner. Owen Wister's " La Tinaja Bonita" is a love story of Arizona, with a desert and a drought for a background; Robert Grant, in " By Hook or Crook," relates an incident in the social career of a prosperous Boston architect; and Julian Ralph, in "Dutch Kitty's White Slippers," introduces his read ers to another set of " People We Pass" in the Eastside of New York. Herbert Spencer begins a new series of articles in The Popular Science Monthly for May. His general subject is " Professional Institutions," — one of the divisions of his Synthetic Philosophy, — and he shows how each of the professions has been de veloped out of the functions of the priest or medicine man.
eral significance to other cities of the United States. The general interest in municipal affairs finds further expression in an editorial in the same number en titled "The Public Safety is the Supreme Law," apropos of the recent decision of the New York State Court of Appeals sustaining the New York City Board of Health in the enforcement of sanitary laws in tenement houses. Two historical studies of interest which appear in the May Atlantic are " The Political Depravity of our Fathers," by John B. McMaster, and " Dr. Rush and Gen. Washington," by Paul Leicester Ford.
The North American Review for May pub lishes, under the caption of " The Income Tax," two extremely important and valuable contributions on this most timely topic, the Hon. George S. Boutwell, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury furnishing his views on "The Decision of the Supreme Court," while a wellknown economist, who desires, in this particular in stance, to be known only as " Plain Speaker," takes as his theme " The Spirit of the Tax."
BOOK NOTICES. LAW. The Law of Negligence in New York. Being all the reported cases in negligence and kin dred subjects in the court of last resort of the A paper on " Tammany," in the May number of McClure's Magazine, describes the high-handed State of New York (to Jan. i, 1895). Con rule of Marshal Rynders and the Bowery " Plugdensed, codified, classified. By John Brooks uglies " in New York City fifty years ago. It is fully Leavitt, of the New York Bar. The Diossy illustrated. Law- Book Co., New York, 1895. Law sheep. §6.50. Although Mr. Leavitt treats only of the local law In the May Scribner's Magazine, President An drews's " History of the Last Quarter-Century in the of New York, this work is one of more than local in terest. It will be of much use to lawyers in other United States" reaches "The Downfall of the Car states, inasmuch as that the facts arc given on which pet-bag Regime" — one of the most disgraceful epi sodes in the history of reconstruction, as well as the the judgment is based, and if the practitioner can find a case like his own in its facts, evidence that a most dramatic. This account is absolutely non-par tisan, and will revive the memory of a most curious court of high standing ruled as he would like his period in the development of our political history. own court to rule, cannot fail to help him. The plan of the book is decidedly novel. Part One contains The illustrations are from a great collection of unpub lished material, and are as interesting in their field as all the casts in chronological order, with a concise statement of the salient facts and rulings of law. the text. Part Two contains a Code of Negligence as declared by the Court of Appeals, with the cases bearing upon Mr. A. C. Bernheim contributes to The Century the various sections so arranged that the governing for May a paper entitled " A Chapter of Municipal principles and cases in point may be easily formed. Folly," dealing with the squandering of New York's Part Three contains all the cases classified according public franchises, an article which, while having to the causes which produced them, and places where special reference to New York, is applicable in gen they occurred. Over two thousand rulings have been
