Legislature of that State. Under Lincoln he was for a time in the Navy Department, and later was Consul at Erie, Ontario. Mr. Blake was also made Consul to Hamilton, Ontario, by President Grant, remaining there eight years.
Guy C. Noble, of the law firm of Noble & Smith, St. Albans, Vt., died suddenly on May 21. He was fifty years old, was attorney for the Central Vermont Railroad, and was well known in legal and other circles throughout the State.
Peter W. Lyall, a well-known lawyer of Lawrence, Mass., died in that city, May 20. He was a member of the Common Council in 1885, Trustee of Public Library three years, and member of the School Committee three years. He was born in Andover in 1854, graduated from Lawrence public schools, Phillips Academy, and Boston University Law School.
Peter C. Baker, senior member of the firm of Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, died May 19. In 1850 he established the publishing firm of Baker & Godwin, which made a specialty of printing law books. In 1865 he established the firm of Baker, Voorhis & Co., printing law books entirely. Mr. Baker was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Literary Association. He edited the "Steam Press," a Union periodical during the war. He was the originator of the plan for the statue of Benjamin Franklin in Printing House Square.
Col. George F. Gardiner, a well-known New York lawyer, died in New York City, May 22. He was sixty-two years old, a native of Washington, D. C. His father was Capt. G. F. Gardiner, who was killed in the Seminole massacre, and his mother was a daughter of Commodore Barnett, U. S. N. He was a page in the United States Senate, afterward went through West Point, studied law in New Haven, served as colonel of the Seventh Connecticut during the war, was subsequently prosecuting attorney of New Haven, and for man)' years had practised law in New York City.
REVIEWS.
The University for May is very attractive in appearance, as well as interesting in its contents. The frontispiece is a fine picture of the University Club House in New York City, and there are excellent portraits of Rev. Bradford Paul Raymond, the President-elect of Wesleyan University, and Leonard W. Jerome, the well-known New York millionnaire. Interesting sketches of the lives of these gentlemen accompany the portraits. The University aims to reflect the doings at all our higher institutions, of learning, and is not devoted to the interests of any one particular college. It is ably edited, and merits the success which it is certain to achieve.
In an article in the Scottish Law Review for April, entitled "Recent Literature of Reparation," the writer, speaking of Melville M. Bigelow's "Elements of the Law of Torts," says: "Mr. Bigelow, whose manual was adopted as a text-book in the Law School at Cambridge (England), addresses himself, with singular lucidity, considerable analytic power, and a firm grasp of principles, to the higher, class of law students." The leading article in this number is a discussion of the "Marriage Laws" of Scotland.
With the May number the Columbia Law Times closes its second volume. Prof. George Chase contributes the leading article, " A Synopsis of the Law relating to Bills of Exchange." The management of the magazine for the ensuing year will be in the hands of Mr. John Norton Pomeroy and Mr. Willard C. Humphreys of the Class of '90 as Editors, and we have no doubt that under their management the Times will meet with continued success.
In the May number of the Harvard Law Review, Freeman Snow contributes an exceedingly interesting paper on " Legal Rights under the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty," Heman W. Chaplin discusses "Statutory Revision," and there is an interesting letter from Leipsic on the subject of legal education in Germany.
Johns Hopkins University Studies, seventh series, V., VI. This double number contains
