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252 President when the High School was established. He is known in Detroit to this day as the " Father of the High School," and one of the large Union schools is named for him. As a youth he was a contributor to " Knickerbocker's Magazine," and as much as thirty years ago he was recognized as fit to be counted among the poets. Toward the close of his life he published a modest volume of poems under the title of " Stray Songs of Life." When the red-ribbon movement overran the country ten years ago, he became identified with it; but as a matter of social polity he advocated a liquor tax as against prohibition, and with such force that legislatures have listened with attention to his advice on that subject. He was a pleasing speaker on public occasions, and a man of recog nized scholarship. Mr. Duffield presided at the bar meeting held in memory of William P. Wells, who died sud denly in the court-room on the 4th of March; and although the weather was bitterly bleak, he went to the grave with the mourners. It had been his proposition that the bar should march in procession, not only to the city limits, as used to be a custom, but to the cemetery. The day was too unpleasant for that; but Mr. Duffield went in a carriage with Postmaster-General Dickinson, who was himself indisposed. He caught a cold which settled in his kidneys and was followed by uraemic poisoning, of which he died in less than a week.

The Law Quarterly Review for April con tains two articles which will especially interest American readers; namely, " The Behring Sea Question," by T. B. Browning; and " Patent Right in England and the United States," by A. Wood Renton. The other contents are, " On Private International Law as a Branch of the Law of Eng land," by A. V. Dicey; " The Privileges of the Press in relation to the Law of Libel," by Hugh Fraser; "A New Point on Villein Tenure," by F. W. Mailland; " A Poor Man's Lawyer in Denmark," by A. H. Jessel; and " Registration of Title in Ireland," by C. Fortescue-Brickdale.

"The French Army," by General Lewal, is the opening article in the April Harper's. It is finely illustrated. ''The State of Wisconsin " con tains a gallery of portraits of her leading men. "Glimpses of Bacteria " shows these active beings in various stages of development. I )r. Charles Waldstein gives an interesting account of " The Court Theatre of Meiningen," embellished with numerous illustrations. "The Behring Sea Controversy," by ex-Minister Phelps, has created so much discussion and controversy in political circles that it will be read with deep interest. Theodore Child contributes a delightful paper entitled " Argentine Provincial Sketches;" and Margaret Crosby a very readable story which she calls "Don Carlos."

One of the most famous pictures of the world has been engraved by Mr. Cole for the frontispiece REVIEWS. of the April Century,— the Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci. This is in the Century's series of old The American Law Review for March-April i masters, engraved immediately from the originals presents an interesting table of contents. The in the galleries of Europe. Two other examples leading article is an address delivered by Hon. of Leonardo accompany Mr. Stillman's article on Charles C. Bonney before the Illinois State Bar As- this master. In the California series Mr. Julius H. sociation on " The Relation of the Police Power of Pratt gives a graphic description of the emigration the States to the Commerce Power of the Nation." to California by way of Panama in '49. The pic" The Police Power and the Public Health," is tures are very striking, having been drawn by discussed by H. Campbell Black; and Samuel Gilbert Gaul, after originals made from life by an Williston contributes an able paper, "Can an In- artist in 1850. In this connection is a paper of solvent Debtor insure his Life for the Benefit of great historical value by the late Gen. J. C. Fre"his Wife?" The question of the true method of mont on his own part in the "Conquest of Calilegal education is dealt with by W. L. Penfield in fornia." Mrs. Amelia Gere Mason's papers on the an essay on "Text- Books v. Leading Cases." An " Women of the French Salons " are supplemented excellent portrait of James B. Bradwell is given J in this number by an account of the " Salons of the as a frontispiece. I Revolution and Empire." " Fetichism in Congo