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NOTES. In our March number we referred to Sir Freder ick Pollock, who is on a visit to the United States, as a son of Chief Baron Pollock. This was an error. Sir Frederick is a grandson of the late Chief Baron, and his father (the Chief Baron's eldest son) was for many years Queen's Remembrancer, and before the Judicature Act a Master of the old Court of Exchequer.

The following is a copy of a letter received by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Arkansas : — Seftembry, the 29, 1893. to the Supream coart of the State of Arkansas this is to certify that thair is three men, in this State that is Practing medicin to my noing With out a leagle Wright or a diplomia, never was in a collage in thair Lives. I think it is your duta to have thim attended too, at once. I Will now, name them. [Names omitted.] Thoes now have distroid Lives of Severl People By the Poisness norcatics. Morphen I Say if We Have a Law Let it Be Put in foars if We Have a goverment Let it Be ruled. I Had to go to the time truble and Expence of the colledges and Medical Board to Practice medicine and it Should Be the Duty of Ever individeual Who wishes to Practic medi cine, now mr coart it is your Duty to Send a officer on thoes men, and Have them Broat into regalation, is a Juastes of the Peace in town Ship He taken an oath that He Would Suppart the constitushon of the State of Arkansas right to the county clerk of co and you will find this is not faults. Endorsed on envelope : P. M. Please Hand this Dyreckley to the Cheaf Justes, of Arkansas Pleas Doo this and oblige

At one time in the Michigan City Penitentiary there was a renaissance in the moral discipline of the prison, and all were compelled to attend chapel regularly. One of the prisoners came to the warden one day and begged to be allowed to stay away from the chapel exercises, as he wanted Sunday to write letters to his friends. The warden looked at the beseeching convict in amazement. " What! " he exclaimed, " allow you to stay away from religious exercises all

the time! No, sir. Why, man, don't you know that it is a part of the penalty? " And the con vict continued to worship regularly while the war den led in prayer.

LITERARY NOTES. The story of Lincoln's secret night journey from Harrisburg to Washington in 1861, to escape the possibility of assassination at Baltimore, is told in the June number of McClure's Magazine, by Col. A. K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia "Times," who himself took part in all the conferences prepara tory to the journey and saw Lincoln aboard the train at Harrisburg. "The Decline in Railway Charges "is discussed in The Popular Science Monthly for June, by Henry T. Newcomb. In view of the fact that this decline has steadily reduced the profits that railroads yield to investors, Mr. Newcomb believes that the future will require considerable economies, such as may be brought about by the practical consolidation of lines. The complete novel in the June issue of Lippincott's is "The Battle of Salamanca," a stirring tale of the Napoleonic wars, from the Spanish of Benito Perez Gald6s, an author of high repute in his own country, but hitherto too little known in America. It is followed by a brief account of " Gald6s and his Novels," by the translator, Rollo Ogden.

A curious and striking feature of the great collec tion of pictures in McClure's Complete Life of Napoleon is a number illustrating the Russian cam paign. These pictures were drawn during the ter rible march to and from Moscow by an officer in Na poleon's army, and have not been published before in this country. They are of the most terrible realism and give an idea of the horrors of that fatal invasion which no words can equal.

Under the caption of " The Silver Question " two papers of special interest appear in the North American Review for June, Count von Mirbach of the Prussian House of Lords and of the German Reichstag giving his views on " Germany's Attitude as to a Bi-Metallic Union," and the Mexican Minister at Washington describing effectively the working of "The Silver Standard in Mexico."