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fícccut 5Dcatí)fií. SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at New port, R. I., on July 7. He was the son of Rich ard M. Blatchford, a famous lawyer of New York City, where he was born March 9, 1820; he was graduated from Columbia College when seventeen years old. Three years after he was chosen by William H. Seward, then governor, as his private secretary, and was military secretary on the gov ernor's staff until 1843. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and in 1846 removed to Au burn, N. Y., where he entered into partnership with Christopher Morgan, W. H. Seward being the counsel of the firm. Clarence A. Seward afterward joined the firm, and its quarters were transferred to New York, where with Burr W. Griswold the firm of Blatchford, Seward, & Griswold was formed. Mr. Blatchford was appointed by Judge Samuel Nelson reporter of the Circuit Court for the second judicial circuit, and began in 1852 the compilation of Hlatchford's Reports, which was continued down to the time of his ap pointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. On the resignation of Judge Betts. Mr. Blatchford was appointed his successor by Presi dent Johnson, May 3, 1867. It was during this service of nearly eleven years that he won his high judicial standing. President Hayes, in the spring of 1878, appointed Judge Blatchford to the United States Circuit Court, which position he held until President Arthur appointed him to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was especially noted as an equity judge; he was an eminent authority in admiralty law. and also in patent cases, where his clear perception of me chanical principles gave him great advantage. His decisions stand the test of time as models of learn ing, perspicuous reasoning, and concise statements of principle, and are quoted repeatedly, and in England as well as in this country.

CONTENTS OF THE JULY MAGAZINES.

The Arena. Our Foreign Policy. William D. McCrackan, A.M., Bimetallic Parity. C. Vincent; Reason at the World's Congress of Religions, Rev. T Ernest Allen; Women Wage-Earners, Helen Campbell; Innocence at the

Price of Ignorance, Rabbi Solomon Schindler; The Money Question. C. J Buell; Christ and the Liquor Problem, George G. Brown; The Realistic Trend of Modern German Literature. Emil Blum. Ph.D.; The Confessions of a Suicide, Coulson Kernahan : The Charities of Dives, A. R. Carman : Who Broke up de Meet'n', Will Allen Dromgoole The Atlantic. His Vanished Star, I., II., Charles Egbert Craddock; Within the Heart. George Parsons Lathrop: In the Heart of the Summer, Edith M. Thomas; Admi ral Lord Exmouth, A. T. Mahan; Passports. Police, and Post-office in Hussia, Isabel F. Hapgood; A General Election : Right and Wrong in Politics, Sir Edward Strachey; Ghost-Flowers, Mary Thacher Hiiiginson; The Chase of Saint-Castin, Mary Hart well Cathcrwood; Governor Morton and the Sons of Liberty, William Dudley Foulke : Petrarch, Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. : Studies in the Correspondence of Petrarch, I.. Harriet Waters Preston and Louise Dodge; Problems of Presumptive Proof. James W. Clarke; If Public Libraries, why not Public Museums? Edward S. Morse. The Century. Color in the Court of Honor at the Fair (illus trated). Royal Cortissoz; The White Islander, Part II. (illustrated), Mary Hartwell Catherwood : The Most Picturesque Place in the World (illustrated). J. and E. R. Pennell; Thomas Hardy, Harriet Waters Preston : The Official Defence of Russian Persecution A Reply to '•A Voice for Russia, "Joseph lacobs : Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini, Tommaso Salvini: In Granada: A Song of Exile, Archibald Gordon; Balcony Stories: Anne Marie and Jeanne Marie. A Crippled Hope (illustrated), Grace King; Sarah Siddons (with portrait). Edmund Gosse: Old Portsmouth Profiles (illustrated i. Thomas Bailey Aldrich : Bird Songs : " Sea-bird and Landbird," Mary Hallock Foote : The Intoxicated Ghost. Arlo Hates; Moonrise from the Cliff, Dora Read Gondale : The Author of "Gulliver" (illustrated), M.O.W. Oliphant; Bric-a-brac: An Artist's Let ters from Japan (illustrated), John La Farge; Dawn, Frank Dempster Sherman: Mental Medicine : The Treatment of Disease by Suggestion (with pictures), Allan McLane Hamilton: Famous Indians: Por traits of some Indian Chiefs. С E. S. Wood: Bene fits Forgot, VIII., Wolcott Balestier; A Voice for the People of Russia : A Reply to " A Voice for Russia." George Kennan. The Cosmopolitan. The midsummer number, the first at the new price of twelve and a half cents per copy, though unchanged in size, excels any other issue of that magazine ¡a