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third assistant Secretary of State. In the winter of 1881-1882 he went to South America with Mr. Trescott on a special mission to use the good offices of the United States to bring about a settle ment of the troubles between Chili and Peru. He was then charge' d'affaires in Bolivia for several months. Late in the year 1882 he was appointed assistant counsel of the Court of Alabama Claims, which office he held until 1885. He lived in Chicago from 1886 to 1888, returning to Wash ington, Jan. 1, 1S89.

graduated from Union College. Schenectady, N. Y., and took a position as professor of languages in Fergusonville, Delaware County, N. Y. In 1856 he began the study of law with Robert Parker, and in 1858 began to practise at Binghamton, N. Y. In 1862 he was appointed district attorney at Binghamton, to fill a vacancy, was elected to the same position in the fall of 1862, and re-elected in 1865. He was in the New York State Senate in 1870 and 1871, serving on many important committees.

Addison C. Nii.es, ex-judge of the Supreme Court of California, died in San Francisco, Janu ary 17. He was a native of Oswego County, N. Y.

REVIEWS.

Frederick Chase, judge of probate and treas urer of Dartmouth College, died at Hanover, Jan uary 19. He was the oldest son of Stephen Chase, a former professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, and was born Sept. 2, 1840: He gradu ated at Dartmouth in 1860, taught at Chattanooga, Tenn., for a short time, and then read law with Daniel Blaisdell, treasurer of the college. He be came, in 1861, a clerk in the office of the Second Auditor of the United States Treasury at Washing ton, and in 1864 he was transferred to an impor tant position in the Secretary's office. He attended the Columbia Law School, graduating in 1867, and then practised law several years at Washington. In 1874 he returned to Hanover, and in 1875, at the death of Daniel Blaisdell, he was appointed treasurer of Dartmouth College. He was made judge of probate for Grafton County in 1876.

Judge Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, died on January 18. He was son of Joseph and grandson of Nicholas Longworth, and was born in Cincinnati in June, 1844, and graduated from Harvard in 1866; for four years from 1876 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1881 he was elected supreme judge. He published, in 1874, a translation of the " Electra" of Sophocles. Orlow W. Chapman, Solicitor-General of the Department of Justice, died at Washington, Janu ary 19. He was born in Ellington, Conn., in 1832, and educated in the local academy. In 1854 he

To the Canadian Law Times for January, R. S. Cassels contributes an interesting and valuable paper on " Restrictive Covenants; Purchaser's Right to enforce inter se."

The Harvard Law Review for January has for its leading article No. V. of Professor Langdell's papers on " A Brief Survey of Equity Juris prudence." William Schofield discusses the "Theory of Contributory Negligence," the article being drawn out by decision of the court in Davies v. Mann. The Law Quarterly Review for January is an unusually interesting number. The leading arti cles are " Private International Law as a Branch of the Law of England," by A. V. Dicey; and "Remainders after Conditional Fees," by Prof. F. W. Maitland. An account of "The French Schools of Law " is given by Malcolm Mcllwraith; and Sir A. Lyall contributes an interesting paper on " A Modern Hindu Code." The other con tents are " The Rights of Aliens to enter British Territory," by W. F. Craies; " Children of Nat uralized British Subjects," by L. L. Shadwell; "The Superiority of Written Evidence," by J. W. Salmond; and " Deny v. Peck in the House of Lords," by Sir W. R. Anson.

To the January number of the Century, Amelia B. Edwards, now almost better known as an Egyp tologist than as a novelist, contributes a historical study, " Bubastis." The finding of the Great Temple of Bubastis is one of the romances of