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once more the subject of international atten tion, ought not the question of their general restriction to be fairly and squarely faced? The dangers which these immunities were devised to ward off are now largely imagin ary, or, perhaps we should say, as fictitious as the fiction of exterritoriality itself, and

diplomacy is well able to cope with the exceptional cases in which they may recur. In any event the person and dignity of an ambassador might surely be preserved with out conferring upon him immunity from a legal obligation to pay for the price of his clothes. LEX.

THE POINT OF VIEW. BY WENDELL P. STAFFORD. "A common scold, communis matrix (for the law-latin confines it to the feminine gender), is a public nuisance to her neighborhood, for which offence she may be indicted." Blackstone's Com mentaries, vol. iv, p. 1 68.

Tis only woman, we are told, Can be in law a common scold. My! won't the definitions vary When woman makes the dictionary!