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door. A bailiff hastened to answer the summons. The twelve men filed slowly and solemnly in and stood in front of the Judge's desk. The clerk took the poll of the jury. "Have you agreed on a verdict, gentlemen?" asked the Judge. The foreman nodded and passed up a paper. The Judge's face became grave. He read the paper. "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged." "That will do, gentlemen," remarked the Judge. "You are discharged. The sheriff — where is the sheriff?". In the distance two quick shots were heard. Two or three men, near the main door passed out into the corridor. Some one noticed the prisoner was not in the room. In a moment there was

a scene of wild disorder. Bailiffs rushed here and there, doing nothing. The Judge pounded heavily with his gavel. "The prisoner has escaped!" cried a man excitedly. "Come here, Jenkins," said the Judge to one of the worried deputies. "Arrest that man for disturbing this court!" This had the effect of stopping the uproar. Men settled back in their seats and looked at each other with question ing eyes'. The big sheriff entered, lead ing by the arm a man who was limping. "I got him, Judge," said the sheriff. "Put him in irons, and see that you hold him," remarked the Judge. "Now adjourn court." The clock in the Court House tower boomed the hour of midnight.

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THIS work was first issued in 1900 as a small volume of 184 pages. In spite of its modest pretensions it was well received as a well-written and accurate survey of the subject. At that time important recent treatises of Hall, Walker, Westlake, and Lawrence were in the field. Since then Professor Westlake has issued a later treatise, and works by Baty, Holland, and Oppenheim have appeared to say nothing of American writers. With so many good treatises already in existence, we have

no means of judging what circumstances led Mr. Smith to undertake an enlarged version of his work, unless it had been steadily growing in favor as an elemen tary text-book, which is a plausible sup position. In its new form, the book has the merit of being up-to-date, treat ing of developments as recent as the Savarkar case, and of offering a larger if not extended treatment, but on the whole it does not acquire intrinsic im portance merely because of its timeli ness and greater thoroughness of detail. There are other English works that exhibit greater animation of style and freshness of thought, and in our own country it is necessary only to mention the recent treatise of Professor George Grafton Wilson, as to all practical in tents not less timely, and superior in