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executed his will, he had sufficient personalty to pay the legacies, but since that time has so depleted this in various ways that at his death there is not enough left to pay them." In cases within Class A, there is a strong probability, under certain conditions which are stated by the author, that the legacy will be charged on the realty, but in cases falling under Class B, there is little hope for the success of a legatee seeking that object. Miscellaneous Articles of Interest to the Legal Profession Biography. "Cleveland's Estimate of his Contemporaries." By George F. Parker. American Magazine, v. 33, p. 24 (May). Kennedy. "The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Kennedy: Portrait and Biographical Notice." Journal of Comparative Legislation, no. xx, p. 201 (Apr.). Vico. Part 2. By Michael H. Rafferty. Journal of Comparative Legislation, no. xx, p. 223 (Apr.). Zouche. By Coleman Phillipson, LL.D. Journal of Comparative Legislation, no. xx, p. 281 (Apr.). Black Hand. "The Problem of the Black Hand." By Arthur Woods. American Maga zine, v. 33, p. 40 (May) . "From the police point of view, certainly it would seem wise to specify that any person could be deported if he had been convicted of any crime or if he had a bad official reputation abroad, and that he could be deported not merely within the three-year limit but at any time until he becomes a citizen of the United States. Added to this should be the further provision that any alien will be automatically deported if he has served a sentence for crime committed in this country." History. "The Diary of Gideon Welles— IV, The Mistakes of Seward." By Gideon Welles. Atlantic, v. 103, p. 658 (May). Contains a comical anecdote showing Lin coln's attitude toward the fugitive slave law:— "There was a sharp controversy between Chase and Blair on the subject of the fugitive slave law, as attempted to be executed on one Hall here in the District. Both were earnest; Blair for executing the law, Chase for permit ting the man to enter the service of the United States instead of being remanded into slavery. The President said that this was one of the questions that always embarrassed him. It reminded him of a man in Illinois who was in debt and terribly annoyed by a pressing creditor, until finally the debtor assumed to be crazy whenever the creditor broached the subject. "'I,' said the President, 'have on more than one occasion in this room, when beset by

extremists on this question, been compelled to appear to be very mad. I think,' he con tinued, 'none of you will ever dispose of this subject without getting mad.'" Montreal. "The Bench and Bar of Mon treal." By E. Fabre Surveyer. 29 Canadian Law Times 357 (Apr.). "The financial standing of the individual members of the Bar of Montreal is hard to establish. A Belgian writer once said: 'I would rather believe the woman who speaks of her age than the lawyer who speaks of his income.' In Montreal, the late Sir Francis Johnson once remarked: 'I have only known two members of the bar who died rich, and they were no lawyers.' This is hardly true of the present generation. . . . The New York Herald, a few years ago, fixed the aver age yearly earning of the lawyers in New York at $1,200 a year. If such is the case a similar calculation in Montreal would lead to appalling results." Indians. Oklahoma and the Indian; the Story of a Carnival of Graft." By Emerson Hough. Hampton's, v. 22, p. 674 (May). "The big graft can be spelled in one little word of four letters—land. Coal land. Oil land. Gas land. Asphalt land. Lumber land. Nineteen million acres of it—and all in the hands of a half-comprehending, dis heartened body of one hundred thousand American Indians, unlettered, heedless as children, broken down, utterly disconsolate and bewildered. . . . "Since the agency offices were opened, approximately twenty-four thousand cases have been brought into the courts. This tardy energy on the part of Uncle Sam has now resulted in indictment against some of the most prominent business, public, and professional men in Oklahoma. . . . On the part of the red man, however—defeated, dis couraged, disappearing—it is all very much like locking the barn door after the horse is gone." Labor Regulation. "The Industrial Di lemma—IV, The Railroads and Publicity." By James O. Fagan. Atlantic, v. 103, p. 617 (May). "A young man enters the service ot a whole sale manufacturing concern. The superin tendent informs him that if he takes an inter est in the business the business will take an interest in him. During the busy hours he steps into the shipping-room or the salesroom and gives a little assistance here and there. Before long a man steps up to him, and says, 'What are you doing here? Don't you under stand that you are probably taking the bread and butter away from some hard-up fellow who is out of employment.' The boy sud denly awakes to the situation. He is a goodnatured young fellow. Later, when the boss asks him why he does not take more interest in the business, he tells his story, and only too often the superintendent is compelled to