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Rh of the wool industry within the past one hundred years. Henry Clay Lukens contributes a most readable article on " American Literary Comedi ans," illustrated with portraits of humorous writers. Short stories by Annie Trumbull Slosson, Mary G. McClelland, and Geraldine Bonner fur nish a good supply of lighter reading. The number as a whole is fully up to the standard of this most excellent magazine.

Scribner's Magazine for April is unusually attractive in its illustrations. The frontispiece, "Now Chaplets bring," is an exquisite drawing by J. R. Weguelin. " Tadmor in the Wilderness," by Frederick Jones Bliss, is profusely supplied with interesting views; and the second and concluding part of " In the Footprints of Charles Lamb," by Benjamin Ellis Martin, gives the reader some charming English scenes connected with the life of that delightful writer. "The Electric Railway of To-day," by Joseph Wetzler, gives an exceedingly interesting account of the development of electricity as a motive power, with drawings of the different systems of electric railways. The first of a series of papers by Frederick W. Whitridge on " The Rights of a Citizen," is given in this number, and discusses a question of general interest; namely, his rights as a householder. Octave Thanet's "Expiation" is concluded; and two more chapters are given of Harold Frederic's " In the Valley." For shorter stories, E. C. Martin contributes one entitled "Javan Hackett's Ill-Mended Fortunes;" and Sarah Orne Jewett an amusing sketch, which she calls "The New Methuselah."

An article which will attract the attention of the legal profession, and which will well repay a careful perusal, is contributed to the April number of the Atlantic Monthly by Prof. James B. Thayer, and is entitled " Trial by Jury of Things Supernatural." Mr. Thayer gives an account of two famous witchcraft trials in the seventeenth century, the first being the so-called "Suffolk Witches," tried before Sir Matthew Hale; the second, a celebrated Scotch case, in which a girl of eleven, named Christian Shaw, accused numerous persons of bewitching her. Oliver T. Mor ton cites " Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform; " Albert Shaw gives an inter

esting account of " Belgium and the Belgians;" and H. C. Merwin; in an article on " Road Horses," imparts a great deal of valuable infor mation concerning the " noble steed." " The Tragic Muse," by Henry James, is continued, as is also "The Begum's Daughter," by Edwin Lassetter Bynner. Margaret Deland's "Sid ney" increases in interest, and is equal to any thing this gifted author has yet produced. Dr. Holmes is as delightful as ever in " Over the Teacups."

BOOK NOTICES.

Rights, Remedies, and Practice at Law, in Equity, and under the Codes. By John D. Lawson. Vol. IV. Bancroft Whitney Company, San Francisco, $6.00 net.

This third volume of the series continues the third division of Mr. Lawson's work, — namely, Property Rights and Remedies, — and includes the titles Negotiable Instruments, Copyrights, Trade-Marks, Patents, Bailments, and Trusts. Under the title Bailments will be found the important topics of Common Carriers, Pledges, Innkeepers, and Telegraph Companies. We cannot speak too highly of the merits of this admirable work of Mr. Lawson's, which is sure to add to his already well-earned reputation as a legal writer. The design was a stupendous one, but it is being carried out in a manner which must excite the admiration of the profession.

A Treatise on the Law of Injunctions. By James L. High. Third edition. Callaghan & Company, Chicago, 1890. Two volumes, law sheep. $12.00 net.

Mr. High has won a well deserved reputation as a law writer, and the present work has contributed more largely than any other to the great esteem with which he is regarded by the profession. The first edition of this valuable treatise was published in 1873, and was at once recognized as a standard work upon the subject of which it treats. A second edition followed in 1S80, which was received with marked favor by the bar, and we now have the work brought clown to the present year. More than four teen hundred new cases arc embodied in the present edition, and more than two hundred pages have been added to the text.

The subject of injunctions is one of exceptional interest to the profession, and a treatise fully covering the nature and mode of application of this rem-