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attended the academy at Worcester, and then went to Brown University, where he was graduated in 1851; he studied law with the late Chief-Justice Ames of Providence. R. I., and with the late Peter C. Bacon of Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar in 1854. He began practice in Milford, in partnership with the late Gen. A. B. Under wood, and subsequently was in company with Judge Charles A. Dewey and others. In 1869 he removed to Worcester, and formed a partnership with Frank P. Goulding, which was continued until Mr. Staples was appointed a justice of the Superior Court in 1 88 1. He had previously served as district attor ney for eight years. Judge Staples was a typical New Englander, serious and thorough in what he undertook, and interested in all local movements that looked to the good of society. He had schol arly tastes, and was prominent in the American Antiquarian Society, to whose proceedings he con tributed many valuable papers. The degree of LL.D. was given him by his Alma Mater in 1884.
REVIEWS. The American Law Review for July-August contains the usual amount of good solid reading. David Dudley Field contributes an interesting article on " Law Reform in the United States : Its Influence Abroad." Charles R. Pence dis cusses "The Construction of the Fourteenth Amendment." Irving Browne writes on " WifeBeating and Imprisonment; " and Lucius W. Hoyt on " Liability for Losses and Injuries to Pas sengers in Sleeping-Cars." Robert L. Fowler con tributes a paper on " The State and Private Cor porations; " and William L. Hodge has an inter esting article on " Municipal Ordinances for the Regulation of Occupations by Means of Licenses." The Juridical Review for July is filled with in teresting matter, and this journal is certainly one of the most readable publications which come to us from the other side of the water. The contents of this number include '• The Archives of the High Court of Justiciary," I., by Charles Scott; "Lynch," by N. J. D. Kennedy; " The French Bar," I., by G. W. Wilton; " A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the Law." by George Liw; " The Adminis
tration of Justice in the Levant," by De'me'triades. An admirable portrait of Prof. Alphonse Rivier, Professor of International Law in the University of Brussels, is given as a frontispiece. "The Weekly Bulletin " is the name of a new venture just started in Boston. It is designed to furnish an index of the principal contents of the periodical press, and will prove invaluable to the reading public, and especially to those engaged in literary pursuits. The editor is Benjamin R. Tucker, whose name is sufficient guarantee that the work will be well and efficiently done. We wish the new publication every success.
"A Daughter's Heart," by Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron, constitutes the complete novel in Lippincott's Magazine for August. The other con tents are " Thoreau and his Biographers," bySamuel Arthur Jones; " A Damascus Blade," by Clinton Scollard; "Walt Whitman's Birthday, by Horace L. Traubel; " At a Poet's Funeral," by Anne Reeve Aldrich, " My Adventure with Edgar Allan Poe," by Julian Hawthorne; " A Plea for Patriotism," by Mary Elizabeth Blake; "Re-roasted Chestnuts," by George Grantham Bain; " The Slav and the Indian Empire," by Clar ence Bloomfield Moore; " Walt Whitman's Last, — Good-bye, my Fancy," by Walt Whitman; "With the Wits " ( illustrated by leading artists).
Harper's Magazine for August opens with a remarkably interesting paper on " New Zealand. by Prof. George M. Grant, which is fully illustrated. J. H. Rosny contributes a striking article on the " Nihilists in Paris," with portraits and graphic illustrations. Montgomery Schuyler, in the opening paper of a series of "Glimpses of Western Architecture," describes some of the monumental buildings of Chicago and the peculiar features of their construction. This paper is also amply illustrated. Ecclesiastical London in the times of the Plantagenets is the subject of Walter Besant's third article on London. More than twenty illustrations are given of interesting remains still existing of Plantagenet London. The unique and attractive series of papers on " Some American Riders," by Col. T. A. Dodge, is concluded. Prof. W. G. Blaikie. of Edinburgh, contributes
