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, feeling that it can not do better than follow in the footsteps of the "Green Bag," comes out as an illustrated magazine; its May-June number containing portraits of Stanley Matthews and Francis Wharton. While its picture-gallery is hardly up to the standard of the "Green Bag," still the furnishing of any illustrations shows a praiseworthy desire to meet the wishes of many of its readers. The least the subscribers of that enterprising periodical should do is to send in their subscriptions at once for the "Green Bag," out of gratitude, if nothing more, for its "spurring up" of the. The contents of the last number are "Comparative Merits of Written and Prescriptive Constitutions," by Thomas M. Cooley; "A Continental Review of the Cutting Affair," by Alberic Rolin; "Public Officers and Candidates for Office," by George Chase; "Surface Waters," by J. C. Thomson; "A Symposium of Law Publishers," containing articles by Charles C. Soule, John B. West, and James E. Briggs. The "Notes" are, as usual, one of the most interesting features.

more readable or interesting magazine is to be found among our exchanges than "," published by the D. B. Canfield Co., Philadelphia. Its "Legal Notes" are selected with evident care and good judgment, and contain much that is entertaining as well as instructive. Its other contents are made up of articles of interest to the profession.

for June contains a paper on "Municipal Government in Great Britain," by Albert Shaw. J. Hampden Dougherty continues his discussion on "Constitutions of New York." E. P. Cheney contributes a paper on "Conspiracy and Boycott Cases." The other contents are "Rotation in Office," by Frederick W. Whitridge, and "The Whiskey Trust," by Prof. J. W. Jenks.

, seventh Series, VII.-IX. "The River Towns of Connecticut," by Charles M. Andrews. An interesting historical sketch of the settlement of Wethersfield, Hartford, and Windsor.

The most interesting paper in the for June is entitled "A Clinical and Forensic Study of Trance," by Prof. Edward P. Thwing, M.D., Ph.D. There is always a peculiar fascination connected with the study of psychology, and this article of Professor Thwing's is well worthy of a careful perusal. The other contents are "The Insanity of Childbirth in relation to Infanticide," by Edward M. Heyzer; "Belgium and her Insane Institutions," by Clark Bell; and "The Lebkuchner," by Dr. Matthew D. Field. The frontispiece is a fine portrait of Dr. Charles H. Hughes, of St. Louis, Mo.

BOOK NOTICES.

. By. Diossy & Co. New York, 1889. $5.50 net.

. By, of the Rochester Bar. Williamson Law Book Co. Rochester, N. Y., 1889. $7.50.