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not see him'" (p. 108). "One judge re marked : ' We cannot listen to irrelevant matter.' Russell replied : ' What may ap pear to you now irrelevant matter may turn out very relevant by and by ' " (p. 15). " ' It is a pity,' said some one, ' that Russell is not a little more tolerant of the judge ' " (p. 103). After so many incidents of this sort, this story gives us comfort : In Manchester once Russell called a cab. The cabman was a powerful man in build. Russell scanned him : " ' Why,' he said, ' a big fellow like you ought not to be driving a cab.' ' What the hell is it to you,' said the cabman, ' what I do? get into the cab and mind your own business ' " (p. 205). Perhaps the strangest thing about Russell was that although an Irishman he had no sense of humor whatsoever. He never em ployed even irony. He was a grim man in battle. Only one instance is recorded; and that incident shows Russell as a man using

a new weapon. A friend repeated the verse to him, old now : "There was a young lady of Riga Who smilingly rode on a tiger; They returned from the ride with the lady And the inside smile on the face of the tiger."

"He did not seemed at all amused at the time, but next day told me that he had used it with excellent effect in a speech at a meeting, as an illustration of the political situation, the tiger being the Conservative party, and the Liberal-Unionists being represented by the young lady " (p. 344). What Lord Bowen said of Lord Russell was said with discrimination,— Russell might not know the facts, Russell might not know the law, — but he could argue any point of law or fact better than any other man. It was as advocate that Lord Russell was great est. It was Charles Russell, barrister, that achieved the highest eminence in his time.

GHOSTS IN COURT. Bv M. E. E. Kerr. THERE are several cases on record in which dumb animals had been indicted with due formality, regularly tried and con victed, and solemnly executed. But our strenuous forefathers did not confine their attentions and juridic deliberations to men and animals. They journeyed into the mystic realms of the supernatural, and actually put venturesome ghosts upon trial for their illbehavior. The solemn Glanville1 gravely records the ghostly gambols and frolics in the ancient Hurstmonceux House, and introduces, with plenary evidence, a minute narrative of " the Demon of Tedworthy," whose invisible 1 See his " Saddicismus Triumphatus," published in 1668, precious copies of which are still met with on rare occasions.

drum beat in the aforesaid mansion-house every night for about a year, for the delecta tion of some reverend magistrate, who had manifestly raised a spirit he could not lay, and whose frisks and antics woefully deranged the whole unsuspicious family. This account of the prank nocturnal visitant, confirmed by affidavits, though shaken by demurrers, was long a leading article of faith with all good and pious people, and was finally immortalized by the inimitable Joseph Addison in his comedy entitled " The Drummer, or the Haunted House," and the "ghost" was finally "laid" by "an old man with a grey beard, in a black cloak," who passed for a "conjurer." 2 2 Addison's Works (Hurd's ed.), Vol. V., p. 141 seq.