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ity of one decides that he must be discharged wide-spread attention. These are, " The Dangers because, not having been in Tennessee at the of Examinations," by Major-General A. YV. Drayson, time of the killing, he cannot be a fugitive from and "The Amateur in Science," by Grant Allen, both of them highly worthy of perusal by all advo justice. cates of an advanced education. Justice Clark dissents (Justice MacRae join ing in the dissent) on the ground that if, in con "The price of liberty," said Jefferson, "is per templation of law, Hall was in Tennessee at the petual vigilance." The price of science is' perpetual time of the killing, so that he cannot be tried in heresy. — Grant Allen, in The New Science Review, North Carolina, in the same contemplation of for January. law he must be a fugitive from justice, for he can not now be found in Tennessee, but is in North An old-fashioned sea story full of interest and Carolina. He says, " If a mob occupying the adventure, with a strong love motive, is begun by Jersey side of the Hudson should shell the city W. Clark Russell in the January Cosmopolitan. of New York, or from the opposite shore of the " Ouida" succeeds Froude, Gosse, Lang, and other distinguished writers with an installment of the Delaware should cannonade the city of Philadel phia, under the decisions of the courts they would "Great Passions of History" series. The present "Theatrical Season in New York" is critically con be liable to no punishment in New Jersey, be sidered by James S. Metcalfe, editor of " Life," and cause " in contemplation of law " the mobs were there are stories by Tourgee, Howells, and the famous in New York and Pennsylvania. But if it is true, French writer Francois Coppee. as contended by counsel, that the members of the mob cannot be extradited because the mob never McClure's Magazine for January demonstrates was in those cities, it would be a singular state of things, and would place those cities, as well as anew the thoroughness of Miss Tarbell's study of Napoleon's career, both by her remarkable summary Savannah, Memphis, St. Louis, Louisville, Cin cinnati, and hundreds of other border towns, at of his services to France as a far-sighted ruler and law-giver and founder of institutions, and by the re the mercy of any mob which might assemble with markable discovery she made of a contemporary weapons of long range, across the state line." document written by a grenadier of the Consular "Civilized man must recoil from the practical Guards, describing the battle of Marengo, and the ruling that the territory adjacent to state bound famous stand of the Consular Guards. A new aries is a ' No man's land ' and that murder is Jungle story by Kipling, and a thrilling battle story privileged if committed across a state line." The by Conan Doyle, show these authors at their best. two dissenting judges think that, as murder has been committed, if the murderer cannot be tried With the first number in January, Littf.ll's Living in North Carolina, he should be delivered up to Age entered upon its two hundred and fourth Tennessee to be tried. That extradition is not volume. The field of periodical literature, especially a criminal, but a remedial statute, and should be in England, is continually broadening, and including liberally construed to effect the object intended, more and more the work of the foremost authors in which is, that an offender shall not escape trial all branches of literature and science. Presenting, in because not to be found in the state where he compact and convenient form, all that is most valu committed the crime, when he can be found in able of this work, The Living Age becomes more another state of the Union. The majority of and more a necessity to the American reader, for, by its aid alone, he can conveniently as well as economi the court rely upon precedents. The dissent cally keep well abreast with the literary and scientific rests upon the reason of the thing, and what is progress of the age and with the work of the ablest deemed by it the true construction and intent of living writers. the Constitution. The extent of the United States is recalled vividly by Julian Ralph's article, " Charleston and the CaroLITERARY NOTES. linas," in the January Harper's. While winter is The New Science Review for January has two having its way in some two million square miles of interesting communications in the direction of that Uncle Sam's territory, yet there is a sunny side even consideration of " Mental Training," by W. G. to the first three months of the year, and the center Jordan, in the October number, which attracted such of all this. charm is Charleston. This number is rich