in a calm and intelligent manner. The Review of Reviews performs this service very efficiently every month. The number for January, 1896, is especially strong in this respect. The editorial department, called " The Progress of the World," is distinguished for its able handling of national and international topics of the hour. In fact, the Review occupies a unique position as a truly " international magazine." Its soundly "American" stand on the Venezuelan question is significant. The installment of President Andrew's History in the January number of Scrihner's Magazine deals with Cleveland's first administration, and is called "A Democrat at the Helm." In addition to its po litical features, which are very interesting, this article contains an admirable summary of the Chicago anar chists' plot, and also of the presentation of the Bartholdi statue to New York. It is most beautifully and profusely illustrated.
A new biography of George Washington, by Pro fessor Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, will be a fea ture of Harper's Magazine during 1896. The first paper, which appears in the January number, treats of the conditions of the colonies, with especial refer ence to Virginia at the time of Washington's birth. The paper is fully illustrated with the earliest known portrait of Washington, five drawings by Howard Pyle, and other pictures. The first issue of the Atlantic Monthly for 1896 opens with an unpublished Note Book of Na thaniel Hawthorne, now printed for the first time. There are also the opening chapters of a new threepart story by F. J. Stimson (J. S. of Dale) entitled "Pirate Gold." It deals with romantic Boston life in the fifties. Two political articles will be sure to attract atten tion, " The Emancipation of the Post-Office, " by John R. Procter, 'Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, and " Congress out of Date," the latter being an able statement of the evils due to the present system of convening Congress a year after its election. There is but one collection of the portraits of Lin coln that pretends to be complete, and that is the collection made by the publishers of McClure's Magazine. They have been able to secure either originals or copies of every photograph, daguerreo type, ambrotype, drawing or painting of Lincoln, so far as known, in existence. There are in this collec tion fifty photographs, ambrotypes and daguerreo types.
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The entire series of portraits will appear during the current year. With the February number twenty of them will have been printed. These portraits cover a period of about twenty years, are from originals taken in a great many differ ent towns and cities under a great many different conditions, and are so varied, and present Lincoln under so many different aspects, that the result of the whole collection is to make Lincoln vivid and real; so that even those who never saw him can form a very accurate idea of how the living man looked and acted.
BOOK NOTICES. LAW.
The Law of Collateral and Direct Inher itance, Legacy and Succession Taxes. By Benj. F. Dos Passos. Second edition. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1895. Law sheep. $6.00. The adoption of statutes directing the collection of collateral and direct insurance tax by so many States, since the first appearance of this work, has made a new edition very timely. Mr. Dos Passos has collected and collated all the various decisions and statutes upon the subject, and the treatise is one which should find a place in every lawyer's library. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in its Relation to Contract. By Sir William R. Anson, Bart., D.C.L. Eighth edition. First American copyright edition. By Ernest W. Huffcut. Macmillan & Co., New York, 1895. Cloth. $3.00. Anson on Contract is too well known to need any special words of commendation. With the American cases cited by Mr. Huffcut, the present edition is rendered much more valuable for the lawyer and the student, and should be heartily welcomed by both. Recollections of Lord Coleridge. By W. P. Fishback. The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianap olis and Kansas City. 1895. This is one of the most delightful books we have read for a long time. Mr. Fishback met Lord Coler idge under the most auspicious circumstances and had opportunities for seeing him in both public and private life accorded to few Americans. His remi niscences are highly interesting and entertaining. The lawyer is given a good insight into English methods of legal procedure, while the layman will find an ample supply of social gossip. The book is charmingly written, and there is not a dull line in it from beginning to end.
