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273 THE JURT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. 273 ures of the jury as they appear in several successive centuries, we shall probably find that the matters calling for attention will mainly arrange themselves under two heads : (1) The methods of informing the jury and improving their quality as a body of witnesses whose answers " tried " the case ; and (2) the methods of controlling the jury, of preventing improper influence over them, of punishing and checking them, and of reviewing their action. It is these things that have originated or shaped much in our law, and, among other things, our singular " law of evidence." yames B. Thayer. Cambridge. To be continued^