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nition of equitable rights, as exemplified in the Marlin and Roberson cases, very unfor tunate; but as an expositor of the Constitu

tion and defender of legislative power, he has been a force making for conservatism and the integrity of our institutions.

TO THE GREEN BAG OF BOSTON. BY LEE WILSON Dono. [NOTE. — Secretary ling's green bag is not characteristic of the genial Secretary of the Navy as an individual so much as of the part of the country he comes from. Almost every other Boston man carries one. And there are all shades of green, from the vivid insistent clamorous emerald of a St. Patrick's Day parade to the sober and sombre shade which the dignified Back Bay maidens put on when they want to symbolize in their dress the dawn of spring. The normal, healthy Boston man carries the green bag.— The Sun, New York.]

Capacious and convenient, Filled with no common fare, The teeming womb of wisdom, Verdant as mermaid's hair. From out its depths what treasures Come hourly to the light— Browning', and Beans, and Bunyan, Stamps and the Stagirite. Ibsen, and Ink (in bottles), Pins, and Pinero, too, Maeterlinck, Matthew Arnold, Gorky, and liquid Glue. Stevenson, Walter Pater, Tolstoi, Turguieneff, D'Annunzio, Dante and Darwin,— Macdowell's last thing in "F." Everything Eddiiying— From the Elder Edda to one Writ by the "Mystic Mother,"— Science as She is Done! Oh, the Green Bag of old Boston, Built on a novel plan, True culture's microcosm, The critic's caravan!