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Judge of Probate for Suffolk County; he had held the two offices from that date. He argued that his action was simply a part of his duty. After his removal Judge Loring received from Buchanan the appointment of Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, and there remained a quarter of a. century, resigning in 1877 under the Retiring Act. He was then seventy-five years of age, and was the only Democrat on the bench. Judge Loring was a native of Massachusetts, and was born Jan. 28, 1802. He was a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1821; and his death leaves but one survivor of the fifty-nine members of his class, that survivor being Rev. William Withington. Judge Washington Gilbert died at Bath, Me., June 11, aged seventy-four. He was one of the leading lawyers of Maine, served in the Legis lature, was Judge of Probate eight years, and was a candidate for the Supreme Bench. Ex-Congressman Hugh Buchanan, of Georgia, died on June 10 at Newnan. He was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of Genrgin in 1872, which position he held till 1880, when he was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress.

REVIEWS. The Law Quarterly Review for July is filled, as usual, with interesting matter. The leading article is on " The Law of Conspiracy in Eng land and Ireland," by J. G. Butcher. Henry Bond contributes a paper on " Possession in the Roman Law;" H. W. Elphinstone writes on "The Alienation of Estates Tail," and Horace Nelson on " Marriage and Immovables." The other contents are "The Legal Test of Lunacy." by A. Wood Renton; " The Maritime Confer ence at Washington," by F. W. Verney; and " A Song of Uses " (in verse), by H. W. C.

The Century for July has a striking feature in the long-expected debate on "The Single Tax," by Edward Atkinson and Henry George. Mr. Atkinson opens the discussion in a paper on "A Single Tax upon Land;" Mr. George replies

in " A Single Tax on Land Values," and there is a rejoinder by Mr. Atkinson. Another article that marks this number is the beginning of " Prison Series," the first paper be ing a thrilling account of the life of "A Yankee in Andersonville," by Dr. T. H. Mann, accom panied by a plan, and pictures made from rare photographs. The first of two papers on " Provence " de scribes and brilliantly illustrates an unhackneyed region of the Old World; that part of France which is like Italy, — with its splendid Roman remains, its palace of the Popes, and its associ ations with Petrarch and Laura. Miss Preston, who wrote the article, is the well-known transla tor of "Mireio," by the great Provencal poet Mistral. Dr. Edward Eggleston in an illustrated article tells the story of " Nathaniel Bacon, the Patriot of 1676," and prints for the first time cer tain details obtained from manuscripts recently acquired by the British Museum and the Con gressional Library. John Burroughs, who has not lately appeared as often as usual in the mag azine, prints a characteristic out-of-door paper entitled " A Taste of Kentucky Blue-grass." The pictures are by a Kentucky artist, W. L. Maclean. Joseph Jefferson, in his charming Autobiography, describes his early experiences in Peru and Panama; he also tells how he revived the play of " Rip Van Winkle," in London, with the literary assistance of Dion Boucicault. He also has an amusing chapter on some English relatives. Mrs. Amelia Gere Mason describes the "Women of the French Salons of the Eighteenth Century; " and the engraver Cole presents us with one of his most exquisitely engraved blocks the frontispiece of the number —■ after a painting by Filippino Lippi. The fiction of the number consists of the second part of the anony mous " Anglomaniacs; " the ninth part of Mrs. Barr's "Olivia;" a story, " The Reign of Rea son," by Viola Roseboro' (a young Southern writer with a rapidly growing reputation); and a complete novelette, " Little Venice," by Grace Denio Litchfield, with a full-page illustration by Mary Hallock Foote. We have received from Mr. George W. Childs a copy of his " Recollections of General Grant, with an account of the presentation of the por traits of Generals Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan,