Page:The Green Bag (1889–1914), Volume 04.pdf/585

 550

was analytical and logical, and painstaking and careful when considering cases as counsel. He was, to the fullest extent of the term, a great lawyer. It is seldom that a lawyer is great in the various branches of the law, but this was pre-eminently the case with Governor Watts. Some are strong in one and some in another, but he was at home and ever ready in all. The Governor, though, had his hobby; and that pet was constitutional law. He loved the profession of the law, and for the past quarter of a century has spent a large portion of his time in the Supreme Court library preparing briefs and arguments in the larger number of cases jn which he was interested before that tribunal. Governor Watts was of a sunshiny and cheerful disposition, kind to all, and loved by every one who has any taste for a great and good man. The young men of the profession all loved him as a father, and no young limb of the law ever called on him for aid and assistance in vain when a knotty problem was to be solved; and he was very frank and free to render assistance when called upon, and always took a deep and abiding interest in the struggling stripling who had cast his lot with the " disciples of Blackstone," and who was about to fall by the wayside on account of obstructions and intricacies that in every instance are met with by beginners. Alas! he is gone. We shall see him no more. The clarion voice is stilled. The manly form will grace by his presence our courts below never again. While we mourn his death here below, he has gone to answer a summons in the court in the Great Beyond. Requiescat in pacem. W. C. Davis.

day," by Bishop Potter, in further discussion of the question of opening the World's Fair for the entire week. The last topic is also discussed editorially, and by Dr. Washington Gladden in an open letter. Four or five finely illustrated articles and a good supply of interesting fiction go to make up a most readable number. The November number of the New England Magazine is a Whittier number. The frontispiece is from a rare photograph of the poet taken about 1855, and the opening article takes the reader in and about the New England country which in spired so much of Whittier's poetry and is so as sociated with him as a man. It is by William Sloane Kennedy, whose monograph of Whittier was so well received. Another article deals with Whittier as poet and man. and is by Frances C. Sparhawk. Allen Eastman Cross contributes a fine poem, " The Passing of Whittier." Mr. Ed win D. Mead, the chief editor of the magazine, deals with Whittier's life, work, and influence in his Editor's Table. The articles are finely 'illus trated throughout. The fiction of the number in cludes " Catnip for Two," by Ethel Davis; " The Black Deuce," by W. Grant; and " A Prophet," byRichard Marsh.

REVIEWS

With the November number the Arena closes its sixth volume. The success of this magazine has been remarkable, and it has fought its way to a foremost position in the ranks of our monthly periodicals. It is conspicuously fair, and unques tionably the boldest review of our time. The contents of this number are strong, varied, and of general interest. The most important articles are "Lord Salisbury's Afghan Policy," by Rev. Thomas P. Hughes, D.D., and the " Practical Application of the New Education," by Prof. J. B. Buchanan. A feast of good things is promised for 1893.

The November Century is the first number of the forty-fifth volume and of the twenty-third year of this magazine, which, while preserving the gen eral characteristics which have given it vogue, is striking out freshly into new paths Articles which strike into the midst of current discussions are "Plain Words to Workingmen," by one of them, Fred Woodrow; " Does the Bible contain Scien tific Errors?" by Prof. Charles W. Shields of Princeton; and " Some Exposition Uses of Sun

The Atlantic Monthly for November offers its readers the following interesting contents : "The Story of a Child," XI.-XV.. by Margaret Deland; " Mr. Tolley Allen." by W. Henry Winslow; "A New England Boyhood," V., by Edward Ever ett Hale; " The Marriage of Ibraim Pasha," an Episode at the Court of Sultan Murad III., 1586, by Horatio F. Brown; " The Withrow Water Right," in Two Parts, Part First by Margaret