home. Mr. Wadleigh at once exhibited a remark able aptness for his profession, and took high rank as a lawyer, both as a jurist and as an advo cate. His progress at the bar was rapid, and his success was well earned. He acquired a very large practice in New Hampshire, and at the time of his election to the United States Senate in 1872 he was one of the most successful lawyers in that State. During Mr. Wadleigh's service in the Sen ate he was chairman of the Committee on Patents, and was a member of various other important committees. He was a member of a special com mittee which spent nearly one whole winter in Mississippi and Louisiana taking testimony in re gard to Southern election outrages. Mr. Wad leigh's influence and ability gave him important rank in the Senate. In 1879, failing of a re election to the Senate, he came to Boston and resumed the practice of his profession.
REVIEWS. The Medico-Legal Journal for December pre sents its readers with an interesting table of con tents. The original articles include " The Legal Culpability of the Criminal Insane," by Judge H. M. Somerville, of Alabama; " Is Drunkenness not an Excuse for Crime? " by A. Wood Renton; "Moral Insanity," by W. P. Spratling; "Sudden and Unexpected Death," by George D. Wilcox; and "Hypnotism," by W. H. Palmer. "The Eleventh Inaugural Address " of Clark Bell, Esq., President of the Medico- Legal Society, is given in full, and contains much valuable and interesting matter. Two groups (full page) of eminent legal and medical lights are given in this number. "The Government and Administration of the United States," by Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby, is the opening paper of the Ninth Series of the Johns Hopkins University Studies. Originally prepared for and used as a manual in the public schools of the District of Columbia, this treatise now appears in a revised and amplified form. The aim of this revision is to furnish assistance to students beginning the study of the history and practical workings of our political institutions; and it will be found an admirable work for that purpose.
The contents of the American Law Review for January-February, 1891, are admirable both in selection and quality. The leading article, " Xhe Courts of Judicature of England," by Elliott An thony, is an interesting account of the several English courts, and their new system of pleading and practice, with law and equity blended. Xhe other contents are " The Ancient Lawyer," an address delivered before the Virginia State Bar Association, by Hon. Charles E. Fenner; " State Quarantine Laws and the Federal Constitution," by William Hamilton Cowles; " An Effect of Ratification," by F. A. Sondley; " Spanish Laws on Marriage," by Emile Stocquart.
The Juridical Review for January comes filled with interesting matter. The article which will particularly interest American readers is an admi rable sketch of " Mr. Justice Miller," by William A. Maury. The other contents are " Une Bataille de Livres : An Episode in the Literary History of International Law," by Ernest Nys; " The Study of Early Law," by George Neilson; " The Recog nition of Foreign Laws in the Case of Contracts," by William G. Miller; " Codification and the Partnership Act, 1890," by D. M. Kerly; "The Legal Aspects of Hypnotism," by J. W. BrodieInnes. The frontispiece is a fine portrait of the Right Hon. Christopher Palles, Lord Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland.
Scribner's Magazine for February contains rich illustrations in very different manners, from the snow scenes of Mount Washington in winter to Mr. Blum's exquisite Japanese drawings. There is a series of interesting portraits of African ex plorers (several of them from the private collection of John Murray, Esq., the London publisher, and never before engraved), and artistic reproductions of paintings and sculpture of the Neapolitan school. The number is notable for such contributors as Sir Edwin Arnold, J. Scott Keltie, the librarian of the Royal Geographical Society, Frank R. Stock ton, and Richard Henry Stoddard.
Clyde Fitch, the author of the successful plays, "Beau Brummell " and " Frederic Lemaitre," con tributes the complete novel to the February num-
