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crease of Homicides in America," in the North American Review for June.
The June Arena opens its sixteenth volume, ap pearing in a new dress, and being printed by Skinner, Bartlett & Co. It is an unusually strong number, opening with a brilliant paper by Rev. Samuel liar rows, D.D., the distinguished editor of the "Chris tian Register" of Boston, on "The First Pagan Critic of Christian Faith and his Anticipation of Modern Thought." Justice Walter Clark, LL.D., of the Supreme Bench of North Carolina, contributes an instructive and delightful paper on Mexico, the in terest of which is enhanced by several excellent illus trations, including a recent portrait of the President of the Mexican Republic. The President of the Mer cantile National Bank of New York contributes "A Proposed Platform for American Independents for 1896." The June Atlantic begins with another install ment of the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edited by George Birkbeck Hill. This installment contains the letters for 1855. Striking features in this issue are an article upon " The Politician and the Public School " by Mr. G. L. Jones, superintendent of schools, Cleveland, Ohio, and " Restriction of Immi gration " by President Francis A. Walker.
Mr. J. B. Bishop, one of the editors of the New York " Evening Post," has contributed to the Cen tury for June a timely paper of political anecdotes, "Humor and Pathos of Presidential Conventions," in which he sets forth the attitude of many candi dates for the Presidency at the time of their defeat. Among the topics of the paper are " The First ' Dark Horse,' " " Convention Sayings," " Modern ' Stam pede ' Tactics," and there are entertaining details concerning Clay, Webster, Seward, Greeley, Blaine and others.
BOOK NOTICES. LAW.
Green's Encyclopedia of the Law of Scot land. Edited by John Chisholm, M.A., LL.B. Vol. I. Abandoning to Banker's Lien. William Green & Sons, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1896. The design of this work is to give in a condensed but at the same time adequate form a complete state
ment of the law of Scotland. A number of able writers contribute important chapters and articles. The editor appears to be well qualified for his por tion of the work, and these volumes will prove of great value, not only to the Scottish Bar, but to the profes sion at large. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmis. By John T. Morse, Jr. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1896. Two vols. Cloth. $4.00. Dr. Holmes could have had no better biographer than Mr. Morse, who enters upon his work con amore and gives us a most delightful insight into the life of this most delightful of men. The author's apology for devoting so much space to narrative is unnecessary, for all readers will agree with us that there is not a dull or uninteresting line in either volume. The work is fully and artistically illustrated. The American Probate Reports. Vol. VIII. Containing recent cases of general value de cided in the courts of the several States on points of probate law. With notes and refer ences by A. A. Greenhoot, of the New York Bar. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1896. Law sheep. $5.50 net. These reports contain " the cream " of probate law and are of exceeding value to probate lawyers, exec utors, and administrators. The notes and annota tions are full and extensive. An index-digest of vol umes 1 to 8 is given in this volume. Marketable Title to Real Estate. Being also a treatise on the rights and remedies of vendors and purchasers of defective titles, in cluding the law of covenants for title, the doc trine of specific performance, and other kin dred subjects. By Chapman W. Maupin of the Washington, D. C, Bar. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1896. Law sheep. $6.50 net. This treatise is a complete exposition of the law on the subject of defective titles. The author has found a really new subject, one that has never been covered by any American publication, and one that is of the utmost importance. There are few more prolific sources of litigation than the disputes grow ing out of defective titles, and this work will save counsel the labor of referring to half a dozen or more text-books on different subjects. The index is full and carefully prepared. Altogether this treatise is one of the most valuable additions to legal literature which we have had for a long time.
