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based upon certain legalistic conceptions. The integrity of God's government waits for its consummation and its vindication upon His righteous judgment in the end. His law is not only an order for His creatures to obey; it is a principle which regulates even His own dealings with His creatures. He is not legis lator only, He is not administrator only, He is the Supreme Judge, and as such, so to speak, He is superior to Himself as the Supreme Ruler of the world. . . . "The great lawyer of Geneva was easy master of the philosophy of the law. His was a constructive mind, and he lived at an age when such a mind was the supreme necessity. In America he would have been a James Wilson and a Jonathan Edwards in one. . . . We believe that his 'Institutes' could hardly have been written as they are if he had not been trained in the keen logic and dialectic of the law, and that the Reformation would have been without its greatest intel lectual prophet if he had not had his wits trained and sharpened in the law schools of Alciati and Peter the Star." Chatham. "Chatham, 1708-1908." By Charles W. Colby. American Historical Re view, v. 14, p. 723 (July). This paper was read before the American Historical Association several months ago. "It is the glory of Chatham that he pos sessed an eye which swept the full horizon, a greatness of soul which raised him above insular prejudice and pride. . . . No one ever wrought more for the [Anglo-Saxon] race, or loved it more intensely, or served it more willingly, or viewed its political disrup tion with greater grief of soul." Cleveland. "Cleveland's Re-election and Second Administration." By Richard Watson Gilder. Century, v. 78, p. 687 (Sept.). "I do not believe he ever voted for a candi date outside of his party. He might have been willing to do so in certain campaigns in his later years, possibly—owing to what he looked upon as un-Democratic platforms and candidates—if he had not possessed an everpresent sense of obligation because of the great honors and responsibilities his party had bestowed upon him." McGowan. "Judge Alexander McGowan." Hampton's, v. 23, p. 403 (Sept.). Of the forceful police magistrate of Butte, Montana, we read:— "With 5,000 cases a year, McGowan has his work cut out for him. He has learned to tell at once the false from the true, and the habitual from the occasional offender, and when the evidence does leave him in doubt, he goes on sleuthing expeditions of his own, sauntering easily in and out of thieves' rendezvous, pool rooms, tough saloons, dance halls, and opium dens. His office hours are from midnight to midnight, and his doorbell is often rung long before dawn by some one who wants him to stop a family row or a neighborhood quarrel before it gets into court."

Romilly. "Sir Samuel Romilly." 29 Canadian Law Times 764 (Aug.). "Probably no one who has taken part in public affairs has ever been held in more universal esteem among his contemporaries than Romilly." Cuba. "An Englishman's Impressions of American Rule in Cuba." By Sir Harry Johnston. McClure's, v. 33, p. 496 (Sept.). "The impartial traveler cannot but feel a sincere admiration for the results of American intervention in Cuba. Nowhere has the work of the Anglo-Saxon been better done or with happier results than during the five and a half years (1899-1902, 1906-1909) of Ameri can administration of Cuban affairs. Yellow fever has been absolutely eliminated, and other diseases abated or abolished. . . . The police force has been entirely reorganized, and crime of all kinds has diminished enor mously." Chinese Problem. "The Yellow Pariahs." By Charles Somerville. Cosmopolitan, v. 47, p. 467 (Sept.). "Once only in all the Western feuds did the Chinese ever mark for death a man not of their own color, and that was when a price of five thousand dollars was placed on the head of Louis O'Neal, of San Jos6, California, now a senator in that state. As a lawyer, he ac cepted a yearly retainer from one of the big tongs, and his activity in a certain case had come so perilously near to delivering a member of a rival tong to the justice of the American law that it was decided he must be put out of the way. He threw open his office door to enter one afternoon in the autumn of 1899, but he as quickly drew back, pulled the door to with a bang, and hurried down the stairways, taking refuge in a constable's office on the ground floor. As he opened the door he had chanced to look directly into a mirror at the opposite end of the room, and this chance glance revealed to him two Chinamen with drawn revolvers huddled behind the very door that he was opening. He quickly gave the alarm on reaching the constable s office, but the Chinamen had dropped out of a rear window to a shed below and made their escape. Not long after that there was an amicable settlement of the difficulties of the tongs, and it was celebrated with a banquet which was attended by more than one hun dred and fifty Chinese. Mr. O'Neal also attended. He saw there his two would-be murderers. They smiled and bowed and later affably told him that in view of what had been brought about they were glad they had not killed him. They told him they meant to shoot just as he closed the door, holding their weapons so closely against his body as to muffle the reports. Fiction. "A Chinese Solomon." By Sir J. George Scott, K.C.I.E. Contemporary Re view, v. 96, p. 190 (Aug.). "The Sawbwa turned to the kneeling crowd