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Editorial Department. that amount to his mother if he at any time within the prescribed period violated the agreement. The grandmother died in 1887; and as he fulfilled the conditions of his agreement and was never paid a cent, Talbott instituted suit for the recovery of the money from the executor of the estate. It was claimed that the condition was not sufficient in law to make the contract valid, and the lower court gave judgment against Talbott. On appeal the case was decided in the Superior Court and reversed, and again appealed to the Court of Ap peals, which decided that Talbott fulfilled a plain contract, and is entitled to the money.

Lord Coke was quoted, — Calvin's Case, 7 Rep. 17, — that " All infidels are in law perpetui inimici; for between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and the Christians there is perpetual hostility." But Willes, L. C. J., p. 44, said : " Lord Coke is a very great lawyer, but our Saviour and Saint Peter (Acts x. 34) are in this respect very much better authorities."

decent SDeatirjies. Judge Austin Adams of Dubuque, ex-Chief-Jus tice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who died the 17th of October, was born in 1826 in Andover, Windsor County, Vt. He was the son of representatives of two famous families. His mother, Phebe Hoar, was of the well-known Hoar family of this State; while through his father, Austin Adams, he was of the same stock with Samuel Adams, the Revolu tionary patriot. He was educated at the Black River Academy in Ludlow and at Dartmouth Col lege, which afterward conferred upon the Iowa jurist the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was principal of the West Randolph Academy for a term or two, and spent some time at the Harvard Law School. Admitted to the Windsor County Bar in 1854, he was connected for a brief period in legal business with ex-Governor Coolidge, and went West shortly after. He taught the Dubuque Academy for several months with Mary Mann, sis ter of the famous educator, as an assistant. He was president of the Iowa State Board of Educa tion in 1868, and for twenty years was regent of the State University. He was elected a justice

of the Supreme Court in 1875, md before re tiring from the bench, after service of twelve years, he had been twice honored by the chiefjusticeship.

REVIEWS. The American Law Review, September-Octo ber, contains two articles which every lawyer should read; namely, " Bentham and his School of Juris prudence," by John F. Dillon; and " The Ideal and the Actual in the Law," by James C. Carter. These addresses delivered before the State Bar As sociation of Ohio and the American Bar Associa tion, respectively, are most finished and scholarly productions The other contents of this number are " Legal Responsibility of Trustees under Corporate Bonds and Mortgages, or Deeds of Trust," by Robert Ludlow Fowler; " Privileged Communications in Suits between Husband and Wife," by Mary A. Greene; " Stranger Indorsing Note in Blank," by Webster Street.

The Harvard Law Review for October con tains the sixth instalment of Professor Langdell's "A Brief Survey of Equity Jurisdiction." A paper on " Contracts in Restraint of Trade " is contributed by Amasa M. Eaton. A list showing the number of students in the Harvard Law School, Oct. 10, 1890, makes the number 273.

The Nebraska Law Journal, a weekly Law Magazine, is the latest aspirant for professional favor. It is edited and published by W. Henry Smith, at Lincoln, Neb., and is devoted to report ing the decisions of the Supreme Court of that State, and those of the United States courts. The journal is attractive in make-up, and we wish the new venture every success.

There is a profusion and variety in the illustra tion of the November number which is remarkable even for the Century, — varying from the actinic reproduction of rapid pen-work to the exquisite engraving of Cole in the " Old Master " series (a full-page after Signorelli). The great feature of the Century's new year, the series on the Gold-Hunt