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THE GREEN BAG

Logical Juryman. — For nearly six hours had the court been convulsed with the evi dence given in a sensational action for breach of promise. The many ridiculous love-letters had been read, commented upon, and heartily laughed at; counsel had spoken, the judge had summed up, and the jury had retired to consider their verdict. "Well, gentlemen." said the foreman, "how much shall we give this young man?" "Look here," said one of the jurymen, "if I understand aright, the plaintiff doesn't ask damage for blighted affections, or anything of that sort, but only wants to get back what he's spent on presents, holiday trips, etc." "That is so," agreed the foreman. "Well, then, I vote we don't give him a penny," said the other, hastily. "If all the fun he had with that girl didn't cover the amount he expended it must have been his own fault. Gentlemen, I courted that girl once myself." Verdict for the defendant.

FATE JOSEPHUS was a careful man, And learned in the Law. He drew his will and testament, He thought, without a flaw. "And to the child," the paper read, "My wife expects anon. 1 leave one-half of my estate, Provided it's a Son. But if said child, and who can tell, Should be a little Daughter, I will not leave her half, but I Devise her just one-quarter." The residue, and barn, and house. He then bequeathed unto his spouse. Josephus died, his widow cried, And prayed, "Forgive his sins." And then there came — Oh, what a shame! That child, — and it was twins. H. W. P.

NEW BOOKS RECEIVED COURTS AND PROCEDURE IN ENGLAND AND IN NEW JERSEY. By Charles H. Hartshorne. Soney & Sage, Newark, 1905. ROMAN WATER LAW; TRANSLATED FROM THE PANDECTS OP JUSTINIAN. By Eugene F. Ware. This volume is the first English translation of the Roman law concerning fresh water. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1905. THE LAW AND THE LAWYER. By Hon. Wil liam Lindsay. An address at the opening of the Jefferson School of Law. John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, 1905. THE NAPOLEONIC EXILES IN AMERICA; A STUDY IN AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY. By Jesse S. Reeves, Ph.D. One of the Johns Hopkins University Studies. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1905.

THE PHARSALIA OF LUCAN. Translated into blank verse by Sir Edward Ridley (of the English High Court of Justice). Long mans, Green & Co., London, New York, 1905THE REMINISCENCES OF SIR HENRY HAWKIXS. Edited by Richard Harris. (New edition.) Edwin Arnold, London, 1905. PLAN FOR COLLECTING THE STATUTES PREPAR ATORY TO THE WORK OF CONSOLIDATION AND REVISION. Prepared under the direction of the Board of Statutory Consolidation of the State of New York. J. B. Lyon Co., Albany. 1904. SQUIRE PHIN. By Holman T. Day. (A novel with a Down East lawyer for a hero.) A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1905.