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IN answer to inquiries asking which of the Marshall Day addresses have been issued in pamphlet or book form, we can give only the fol lowing imperfect list : In book form : Addresses of Mr. Chief Justice Holmes, of Professor Henry St. George Tucker, and of Mr. Attorney-General Knowlton, at Bos ton, and of Professor James Bradley Thayer, at Cambridge. [In the press.] Proceedings of the Bench and Bar of St. Louis; published by the Bar Association of St. Louis, containing addresses by Hon. H. S. Priest, for mer U. S. District Judge; Hon. A. M. Thayer, U. S. Circuit Judge, Hon. Jacob Klein; Hon. Warwick Hough, Hon. Henry Hitchcock, Hon. James Hagerman, Hon. Henry T. Kent, Hon. James L. Blair, and Hon. E. B. Adams. It is a matter of regret that only one of these admir able addresses came to us in time to be included, in part, in our Marshall numbers. In pamphlet form; addresses by the follow-i ing gentlemen at the places indicated : Hon. LeBaron B. Colt, U. S. Circuit Judge, and Hon. Francis Colwell; Providence, R. I. Hon. John F. Dillon, of New York; Albany, N. Y. Hon. W. Bourke Cochran, of New York; Buf falo, N. Y. Hon. Wayne MacVeagh; Washington, D. C. Hon. William Pinkney Whyte; Baltimore, Md. Mr. Justice Gray, of the U. S. Supreme Court; Richmond, Va. Hon. Charles H. Simonton, U. S. Circuit Judge; Columbia, S. C. Hon. Joseph P. Blair; New Orleans, La. Mr. Chief Justice Shauck, of Ohio; Columbus, Ohio. Hon. John N. Baldwin, of Council Bluffs; Iowa City, Iowa. Hon. Sanford B. Ladd; Kansas City, Mo. Hon. James M. Woolworth; Omaha, Neb. Mr. Justice McFarland, of California; San Francisco, Cal. Hon. Horace G. Platt, of San Francisco; Portland, Oregon.

The addresses of Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, at Washington, and of Hon. Charles E. Perkins, of Hartford, at New Haven, Conn., were put in type, and, we suppose, have been issued in pamphlet form. Part of Professor J. B. Thayer's address, at Cambridge, was printed in the March Atlantic Monthly, while Senator Lodge's ad dress, at Chicago, appeared in the North Amer ican Rwiew for February.

NOTES. A QUESTION of citizenship has lately been raised on the following facts : A. was born of Norwegian parents, who were on their way to the United States in a vessel carry-ing the Dan ish flag, while the vessel was in American waters, the captain of the vessel being a citizen of Sweden and the pilot who boarded the vessel a Canadian. THE average appellate judge not only meets with frequent opportunities to enlarge his views of the law, but the forensic efforts of the bar often afford him a chance to polish and dilate his vocabulary. Not often, however, is he re galed with such weird linguistic and mental gymnastics as are presented in a Missouri attor ney's brief which we have lately, through the courtesy of a correspondent, had the privilege of inspecting. The following excerpt, culled at random from that brief, is suggested as a legal gem worthy of preservation. "The declarations of law asked for by plaintiff is in strict harmony with the authorities above cited, yet the trial court refused to so declare the law, and give the declarations asked for by the defendant, which are in direct conflict to all the law governing this case. We frequently find in practice the law so unsettled that it becomes necessary to secure judicial interposition, but in this case, there seems to be a unanimity of har mony in the various States of the Union charac terized by an approval by the United States Supreme Court by an unbroken chain of decisions on the point here involved, and this Court in the reports above referred to adhere to the same doctrine." It is hoped that the attorney will be able to secure " judicial interposition " in this case, and that the " unanimity of harmony " referred to will not be disturbed. The same attorney advises the Supreme Court of Missouri that " The promoters of this scheme, beside all others, however large or small, stood pre-eminent. They were intoxicated with the idea of great wealth, they wanted immediate wealth, wealth in one day. They were money mad. Crazy for greed, wild with inflated ideas of gain, their ideas of the magic growth of Springfield surpasses the story of Aladdin's magic lantern." Further along, alluding again