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ing in Cincinnati for a year, he returned to Maryland and formed a law partnership with Isaac D. Jones, under the name of Jones & Irving, which partner ship was dissolved in 1867, when Irving was elected Associate Judge, and Jones was elected Attorney-General. He held the position of Asso ciate Judge until the death of Judge Stewart in 1879, when on April 9 in that year he was appointed Chief-Judge by Gov. John Lee Carroll. In the following November he was elected ChiefJudge for a term of fifteen years, the Republicans declining to nominate an opposing candidate. His term as Chief-Judge would expire in 1894.

Hon. Edward Bermudez, late Chief-Justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court, died in New Orleans, August 22. He was born in New Orleans on Jan. 19, 1832. He was related to Don Francisco de Zea Bermudez, at one time Spanish Minister of State and Plenipotentiary of Spain to France. His father, Joachin Bermudez, was for many years Judge of Probate in New Orleans. He studied law in Kentucky and at the Law School of the University of Louisiana, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was a member of the Secession Convention in 1860, enlisted for local service in the Confederate army, was an officer in the Orleans Regiment, and Judge Advocate of the brigade. After the evacuation of the Crescent City, he went to Mobile, where he served as Adju tant, Provost- Marshal, and Post Commandant in the Department of the Gulf. He returned to New Orleans after the war, and served as Assistant City Attorney until removed by General Sheridan. Sub sequently he acted as attorney for several banks and corporations and for several large mercantile firms, especially those corresponding with firms in France. In 1880, when the Supreme Court was reorganized under Wiltz's administration, he was appointed Chief-Justice. His term expired in April last. (An excellent portrait of Judge Bermudez was published in the Green Bag. March, 1891.)

REVIEWS The September Scribner contains an unusual number of elaborately illustrated articles, viz. : "The Last of the Buffalo," by George Bird Grin-

nell; "The Tilden Trust Library: What shall it be?" by John Bigelow; "The NeVsky Prospe'kt," by Isabel F. Hapgood; " French Art," by W. C. Brownell; " The Indian who is not Poor," by C. F. Lummis; " The Education of the Blind," by Mrs. Frederic R. Jones. There is the usual amount of interesting fiction in the number.

Harper's Magazine for September excels in the variety and value of its illustrated articles, and in the high quality of its fiction. A timely article on "Fox-hunting in the Genessee Valley," by Edward S. Martin, with several striking pictures by R. F. Zogbaum, is one of its most attractive features. Laurence Hutton begins a short series of inter esting papers descriptive of his unique and exten sive " Collection of Death-Masks," which is fully illustrated from photographs. Theodore Child concludes his very valuable series of articles on "Literary Paris " with notices and portraits of many of the famous living French writers. The series of essays by James Russell Lowell on the Old English Dramatists is continued in an article on George Chapman. Julian Ralph continues his graphic and comprehensive studies of the great Northwest in a paper on " Washington : the Ever green State." The fiction of the number is well represented in a novelette by A. Conan Doyle, entitled " Lot No. 249," illustrated by W. T. Smedley; an amusing short story, " Those Sou venir Spoons," by Margaret Sidney; the fifth chapter of Mary E. Wilkins's remarkably interest ing New England novel. "Jane Field," illustrated; and the seventh instalment of William Dean How ell's serial, " The World of Chance."

An article that will interest a wide circle of read ers at this time is " On the Shores of Buzzard's Bay." by Edwin Fiske Kimball, in the September New England Magazine. It is a bright, wellillustrated article, and gives sketches and portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and their sum mer cottage, " Gray Gables; " Joseph Jefferson, his house and studio; Richard Watson Gilder, the editor of the " Century; " and the studios of sev eral famous artists, including R. Swain Gifford and Walton Ricketson. The other notable contents of this number are " An Improved Highway System," by E. P. Powell; " The North Pole," by Charles M. Skinner; " What is Nationalism?" by Rabbi