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 Rh did not prevent his admission to the panel. The case for the prosecution was in the hands of the Attorney-General, who, after a glance at the jury-box, declined to proceed with i't. "He would not,'' he said, "in the absence of almost all the special jurors, go on with the case of cattle-stealing. The names that had been called were almost all publicans, emancipated convicts; and, in the absence of the merchants, he would not risk the administration of justice in the hands of the publicans." On another occasion, a summoning officer returned two of the summonses for the jury with characteristic indorsements. One of the expected jurors had been transported for life to a penal settlement in the colony; the other had been "hanged for murder two years ago.'' But now, for an instant, the other side of the picture. The felon's Paradise was also, at this very early stage of its existence, a highly civilized, a wealthy, an immensely productive, and a rapidly advancing colony. The parent country, having discovered its resources, its capacities, and its possibilities, had condescended to bestow upon it some measure of encouragement. Botany Bay was emerging from the character of a semisavage penal settlement, and was assuming the character of a commercial and agricul tural community. The free settlers had proved themselves an energetic and an enterprising race, but they could not unaided have brought the colony forward at this pace in the astonishingly short time of five-and-twenty years. It is perhaps not extravagant to say that the felony fur nished the greater portion of the brains and genius of the nascent colony. AN ignorant foreigner was arrested in San Francisco the other day, and when taken to the city prison his condition was so un cleanly that he was told by the corporal to strip and take a bath. "Vat, go in de water?" he asked. "Yes, take a bath; you need it. How long is it since you had a bath?" With his hands aligned upward, he answered: "I never vas arrested before."

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// is the intention of The Green Bag to have its book reviews written by competent reviewers. The usual custom of magazines is to confine book notices to books sent in for review. At the request of subscribers, however, The Green Bag will be glad to review or notice any recently published law book, whether re ceivedfor review or not.

LITTLETON'S TENURES. In English. Edited by Eugene ll-'ambaugh. Washington, D. C. : John Byrne and Company. 1903. Sheep, $3.00; cloth, $2.50. (lxxxvi+34i pp.) Messrs. John Byrne and Company con ceived a few years ago the happy idea of publishing, in a new and revised form, a "Legal Classic Series," to consist of the fol lowing four time-honored masterpieces: jlanville, Britton, Littleton's Tenures, and The Mirrour of Jitstices. Of these treatises, all but the last of the series have been published, and the present edition of Littleton's Tenures, issued from the press during the past sum mer, is the third. The translations of the text have been carefully chosen, and a biographical and scholarly introduction puts the student, in a large measure, in a position to understand, and, therefore, to enjoy the text placed be fore the public. The present notice does not pass in review Glanville and Britton previ ously published and already noticed in these columns; but confines itself to the edition of Littleton's Tenures, admirably and lovingly prepared by Air. Eugene Wambaugh, pro fessor in the Harvard Law School. "The book is of uncertain date,'' says the learned editor, "but probably was written inward the close of Littleton's life. It pro fesses to have been written in order to aid Littleton's son Richard in his study of law. . . . The boolc was printed ... in 1481 or 1482, being one of the earliest books printed in London and the earliest treatise on English law printed anywhere.'' Now, if this little treatise were really worth less, the fact that it is the first English law book to appear in print, would make it a choice morsel to the collector. It is, how ever, intrinsically valuable, and to the law