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Hon. Henry Huse, State insurance commis sioner for New Hampshire, died at his home in Concord, September 7, aged fifty-one years. He was a native of West Fairlee, Vt., and re sided at Barnstead, Pittsfield, and Manchester, prior to his removal to Concord. He read law and practised at Pittsfield and Manchester, hav ing been the partner of the Hon. James F. Briggs in the latter city. On the death of the Hon. Oliver Pillsbury, he was appointed insurance commissioner, and has held the office ever since. He was an officer in the Eighth New Hampshire during the war, was Representative to the Legislature from Manchester for several terms, and Speaker of the house of Representatives in 1879. He was also Chairman of the Republican State Committee for several years.

Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy died in Lansing, Mich., September 8, at the age of seventy-seven years. From 1857 to 1875 he was a Supreme Court judge in Michigan, and he was also an exUnited States Senator and ex-Minister to Peru. Fifty years ago he was a practising lawyer at Monroe, Mich., the partner of Robert McClel land, who, a few years afterward, became the distinguished Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Pierce. In 1858 he was elected to the bench of the Supreme Court, and for nearly twenty years was one of the most honored and distinguished judges, serving as chief-justice for three years. In 1875 Judge Christiancy was elected United States Senator, to succeed Senator Chandler, through a combination of Democrats and dissatisfied Republicans. He was elected as an Independent, though all his life he had been known to be an ardent Republi can. As a Senator he sprang at once into prom inence. He took his seat on March 4, 1875, and delivered his maiden speech on the 12th, the question before the Senate being the contested election cases from Louisiana. In 1879 he went to Peru. His later years were passed in Lansing. An excellent portrait of Judge Christiancy was published in the September number of the " Green Bag." Hon. John Prout, who died recently in Rut land, Vt, was a respected citizen and an able lawyer. He was born in 1815. He was chosen

Representative from Salisbury to the General As sembly of Vermont in 1847, 1848, 1851, and was State's Attorney of Addison County from 1844 to 1851. He represented Rutland in 1865 and 1867, and in 1868 was a Senator from Rutland County. He was elected a judge of the Supreme Court of the State, holding two terms, 1868 and 1870, when he voluntarily retired from the bench on account of his extensive legal practice. For many years he was counsel of the Rutland Railroad and the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company.

REVIEWS. The leading article in the Political Science Quarterly for September is one which will par ticularly interest the legal profession, the subject being " Recent Centralizing Tendencies in the Supreme Court." The author is Fred Perry Powers. The other contents of the number are, "State Control of Corporations," by George K. Holmes; " The Taxation of Corporations," by Prof. E. R. A. Seligman; " German Historical Jurisprudence," by Ernst Freund; " Italy and the Vatican," by William Chauncy Langdon; and "Booth's East London," by Prof. W. J. Ashley. In the September number of Harper's Mag azine, Theodore Child describes a journey "Across the Andes," along the line of the great Transandine Railway which is soon to connect Buenos Ayres with the Pacific coast. This is the first of a series of illustrated articles on South America, which Mr. Child has prepared, relating his personal experiences and observa tions in that continent during the first six months of the present year. In the same number of the magazine, Russell Sturgis describes certain ture," and incidentally gives some valuable infor mation concerning Greek art and architecture. Lieut. J. D. Jerrold Kelley, of the United States navy, contributes an article on the " Social Side of Yachting." The superiority of our common wild-flower over the cultured varieties of the con servatory is illustrated with pen and pencil by William Hamilton Gibson in a characteristic
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