Company. The Macmillan Company and Charles Scribner's Sons each had two, and D. Appleton & Company, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Dodd, Mead & Company, The Lothrop Publishing Company and Doubleday, Page & Company each published one of the famous twelve. Henry Kitchell Webster and Samuel Merwin who write together under the nom de plume of Merwin Webster have another story ready for publication this spring by The Macmillan Company. Their last stories were "The Short-Line War" and "The Banker and the Bear." Their new novel will be the romance of a grain elevator and will be called "Calumet K.'" How a two-million bushel grain elevator was built "against time" by one Charlie Bannon is the pith of the story. Mr. James Lane Allen and Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie in this country, and Mr. Frederic Harrison in England, are a few of the discerning critics who see in Maurice Hewlett a new force in English literature. Many are asking if he is the man who is to lead the way in the new century, and it is interesting to watch the growth in popularity of this author whose work won his first recognition rather from his peers than from the mass of people on whose judgment his fame must ultimately rest. Dr. George A. Gordon's "New Epoch of Faith," just published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. on the sixteenth, is at once a very liberal and very cheerful view of the situation of religion. The book emphasizes Dr. Gordon's position as an advocate of the "higher criticism." It takes the ground that the doctrine of evolution, and the abandonment by a considerable section of the church in this country of some of the old tenets, have been "only a preparation for a more confident religious faith." According to their annual catalogue for 1900 The Macmillan Company published five hundred and forty-five works during the past year. One-third of this number were books by American authors, printed and copyrighted in the United States, and numbering for 1900 over one million and a half copies according to a statement by The Norwood Press in Massachusetts, which does most of The Macmillan Company's printing. The same printers make the reckoning that in printing The Macmillan Company's books they used over seven hundred and thirty tons of paper. The leading article in McClure's Magazine for March is a character study of Edward the Seventh, written by George W. Smalley, the American correspondent of the London Times, and illustrated by a remarkable collection of photographs. "The Romance of the Heavens" is the title of a popular yet scientific book on astronomy, by A. W. Bickerton, professor of chemistry at the New Zealand University, which The Macmillan Company will publish immediately. A chapter which will probably cause some attention is that which deals with the possible immortality of the Cosmos. The author has tried to write a book, which, with careful reading, may be followed by any person with a good school knowledge of experimental science. "The Garden of a Commuter's Wife" is a record by the gardener of her country life indoors and out. It is overflowing with both humor and sentiment, being a young couple's experience of the life that if wisely lived is the best of all. The writer is the daughter of a New England country physician who possessed an amiable form of book madness in addition to other lovable traits of character and professional qualities. The Macmillan Company will publish the book early in the spring. The same firm, it will be remembered, are the publishers of the now famous books by the anonymous "Elizabeth." Mr. W. T. Stead contributes to the American Monthly Review of Reviews for March a clever and well-informed character sketch of "King Edward VII." Mr. Stead's estimate of Great Britain's new sovereign will attract the more attention because of the writer's well-known hostility to the policy of the Salisbury-Chamberlain administration in the matter of the Boer war - an attitude that has even led to careless imputations of disloyalty. Mr. Stead finds much to admire in the king, and likens the transition from princeship to kingship, in the present instance, to Shakespeare's account of the transformation of Madcap Hal" into the sober and resolute Henry V, whom Mansfield depicts. A new novel by the late Maurice Thompson appears, complete, in the March "New" Lippincott Magazine. This is a delightful, straightforward love story in Mr. Thompson's sweetest vein. As in "Alice of Old Vincennes," he selects his native State, Indiana, for a background, though some of the most significant incidents occur in picturesque New Or'Life Portraits of Queen Victoria" is also a leans and during a trip on the lovely, languid waters feature. The series is made up of reproductions of Bayou Teche. Three vivid characters in the from photographs and paintings, and it is of notable story compel more than a word in passing, while historical value. They cover the life of the queen even the side-lights are distinctly original. Fredfrom infancy to old age, and are accompanied by erick Breyton, a young New York millionaire, who descriptive text. Theodore Roosevelt, vice-presi- | yearns for "something different," makes a bicycle trip through the West. When he reaches the little politics and confining his activities to agricultural town of Hawford, Indiana, he finds what fate had in and industrial pursuits. In their effort to effect store for him. No girl has yet made a lasting im- | some compromise on the fifteenth amendment both pression on the fine young fellow, who is a bit of a southern Republicans and Democrats are reckoning poet, and when he meets Rosalynde Banderet, his on much sympathy in the north. heart is ready for the germ of love. This is unfortunate, because the girl is engaged to Alfred Rayle, an impoverished artist, a cripple, whose divine eyes and marvelous magnetism make him a rival not to be lightly considered. The author's skill in dealing with the situation is magnificent. He gives free rein to his imagination, and the result is an idyllic, delightful plot which must be read, it cannot be guessed. The Frederick Stokes Company will publish in the spring Albert Kinross' new novel entitled "Philbrick Howell." The author of "An Opera and Lady Grasmere" regards his forthcoming story as his representative contribution to fiction and as such it has occupied some years of writing. The book was begun in 1894, put aside for three months while Mr. Kinross wrote "Fearsome Island," and again laid aside while the author wrote "An Opera and Lady Grasmere." "Philbrick Howell" had already absorbed three full working years when Mr. Kinross was offered the associate editorship of the London Outlook, which he relinquished recently to take up his work of writing fiction. He immediately turned his attention to "Philbrick Howell," which he completed in four months' time. Mr. Norman Hapgood's new book on "The Stage in America, 1897-1900," will treat those aspects of the acted drama which have been most important in America during the last few years. Plays which are of ephemeral interest, however great their temporary vogue, are, in the main, omitted. Although there are chapters dealing with stage humor, the trend of the book is serious, and it is intended to have a permanent value as a picture of one period of the American drama, or rather, the American stage, for it takes up the best plays to be seen here, whether they are made at home or abroad, and whether they are performed in English, German, French or Yiddish. The Macmillan Company, who published Mr. Hapgood's successful life of "Abraham Lincoln: The Man of the People," will also issue this present book which is now on the press. The March number of the North American Review is quite up to the usual high standard of this admirable magazine. The Most Rev. John Ireland, archbishop of St. Paul, in an article of great power and eloquence, expounds the reasons why Catholics regard the temporal power as essential to the papacy for the proper discharge of its functions and their grounds of hoping that Rome may be restored to the church. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, in another installment of "Musings Upon Current Topics," discusses the suggested Anglo-American Alliance and the Boer war. Henry James reviews the works of the Italian novelist, Matilde Serao. Charles R. Flint describes the Business Situation and Prospects in the United States." The Rev. Dr. Judson Smith gives a retrospective view of the achievements of 'Protestant Foreign Missions in the Nineteenth Century." Frank D. Pavey makes an earnest plea well supported by argument and fact, for the redemption of the national promise made by the United States at the outbreak of the Spanish war by the immediate acknowledgment of The Independence of Cuba." Sir Charles W. Dilke presents an appreciative paper on the present "King of England." Henry A. Castle, auditor for the postoffice department, makes certain disquieting revelations regarding Some Perils of the Postal Service." Charles Waldstein discusses the "Recent Discoveries in Greece." Professor Richard T. Ely details the advantages of "Municipal Ownership of Natural Monopolies." In the Great Religions of the World Series, Frederic Harrison writes of Positivism: Its Position, Aims and Ideals," while Mr. Howells, with genial and lucid pen, reviews “The Recent Dramatic Season.” Legal Notes. L. Announcement is made that Mr. William Visscher has become associated with the firm of Harris & Rudd in the general practice of the law, with offices in Tweddle Building, Albany, N. Y. The firm name will continue as heretofore. The southern newspapers have welcomed Mr. Wm. Hannibal Thomas' book on "The American General Catchings, congressman from Mississippi, Negro" for as strong an argument for the repeal who goes out of congress this month, after a service of the fifteenth amendment as has yet appeared. of sixteen years, says: My congressional career Mr. Thomas is a negro of ability and character. but rather supports the assertion that the intellectual has taken a big slice out of my life. I went into the house when I was thirty-eight and now I am fiftyand moral qualities of the negro have not advanced, ¦ and that his material advancement and well-being four. I am going to resume the practice of the law and try to make some money." are not improved by the possession of political rights. This argument is in violent contrast to the The Supreme Court of Iowa has affirmed the deoptimism of Mr. Booker T. Washington, and pub- cision of the lower court declaring that the Titus lic opinion in the south is likely to regard it as an biennial election law, adopted last November at additional justification for taking the negro out of the polls by 30,000 majority, is null and void, be cause of technical defects which it regards as fatal. The effect of the decision will be to render a general State election necessary in Iowa next fall. Professor Heller, of Kiel University, who has made autopsies on no less than 300 suicides during the past five years, states that he found the brains of forty-three per cent showed distinct malformation; twenty-nine per cent of the remainder were suffering at the time of their death from acute febrile inflammation; 143 of the aggregate had organs diseased by alcoholism. Jesse J. Phillips, associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, died at his home in Hillsboro, Ill., on February sixteenth. He has been ill for several months, and, while his death had been expected several times, he had always rallied. Judge Phillips was born in Montgomery county, Ill., May 22, 1837. He had been a member of the Supreme Court since 1895. Recently in New Jersey a jury of eleven men rendered a verdict. The case was a suit against the Erie Railroad Company and after all the testimony had been taken it was discovered that one of the jurors was a watchman of the defendant company. By agreement of the opposing counsel he was dropped from the panel and the case continued with but eleven jurors who rendered a verdict of $3,500 against the company. ber of years in Chicago, is a Hoosier by birth and a graduate of Princeton University and the law school of the Columbian University at Washington. While at college he was noted as an athlete and was particularly fond of baseball and football, having been captain in his senior year of the university nine and half-back on the university eleven. He left the Washington law school before completing his course and entered his father's law office; he then went with Justice Fuller. In 1884 he was admitted to the Illinois bar. Mr. Harlan has built up a law practice which is understood to be considerably more lucrative than the office to which he has been appointed. The lesson of the statistics as to lawyers and population is not unworthy of notice. China has no lawyers. Japan about one lawyer to 26,887 inhabitants; Russia, one lawyer to 31,048; Germany, one lawyer to 8,787; France, one lawyer to 4,155, without counting her great army of notaries; England and Wales (counting the members of the bar on the rolls of the Inns of Court and the solicitors), one lawyer to 1,121; and the last published census of this country shows one lawyer to every 699 inhabitants, so that the proportion of lawyers to population is about thirty-eight times as great in the United States as in Japan, about forty-four times as great as in Russia, over twelve times that of Germany, about six times that of France, and a little over one and one-half Black silk gowns are to be worn by the justices that of England and Wales. Of course the figures of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme are only an approximation, but they seem to indicate Court of the Second Judicial Department, beginning a significant relation between the proportion of lawMarch fourth. This innovation was suggested yers and the condition of a people.- Charles Noble some time ago, but Justice Edgar M. Cullen, now of the Court of Appeals, opposed the scheme effectively. Presiding Justice Goodrich states that after March fourth all the justices of the appellate courts in the State will wear gowns. Senator Barlow has introduced a bill in the Indiana legislature legalizing "joint smashing" in Indiana. It permits any crowd of people, not exceeding twelve, to smash any place where liquor is illegally sold, besides gambling houses and policy shops, such places being declared nuisances. The bill also provides that any one interfering with the smasher shall be punished for assault and battery. T. A. Goodwin, a retired minister, is the author of the measure. Gregory. The Hon. John Hooker, who was the official reporter of the Connecticut Supreme Court for thirty-six years, died in Hartford last Tuesday, aged eighty-five years. Mr. Hooker was born in Farmington, Ct., April 19, 1816, and was educated in Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1837. He evidently had not forgotten his Latin, for his last words were a quotation from Cicero de Senectute: "O praeclarum diem, cum in illud divinum animorum concilium coetumque proficiscar cumque ex hac turba et conluvione discedam!" The Hartford Times says that this favorite passage from Cicero was frequently repeated by Mr. Hooker during his illness, and he gave when asked, his own translation, as follows: "O glorious day, when to that divine council and gathering I shall go, and from the crowd and slums The appointment of James S. Harlan, of Chicago, as attorney-general for Porto Rico, seems to have I shall depart." been a surprise in more ways than one. The ap pointee, as is well known, is a son of Justice John Universal manhood suffrage does not yet obtain M. Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court. in the United Kingdom, though the election laws It is understood that the appointment was entirely unsolicited, either on Mr. Harlan's part or that of his friends, of whom he has many. Nor was it urged by either of the United States senators from Illinois. The appointment may be said to have been a personal one with the president. Mr. Harlan is still under forty, has practiced law for a num have been made more liberal from year to year. Before you can vote for members of parliament in England you must be paying not less than $50 a year in rent, but persons paying below that sum are entitled to vote in municipal elections. Lodgers who pay five shillings a week for furnished rooms can get their names on the register. Persons living in flats or small tenements come under the qualification of "householder." Women, though denied the right to vote for members of parliament, have equal powers to vote with men in local elections. Nor are they disqualified by marriage, providing the husband is not registered in respect to the same property. Women can also be candidates in all elections for parish councils, guardians and school boards, but they are not permitted to serve on borough or county councils.-Albany Argus. The New York Evening Post says that Daniel H..Magruder, an ex-judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, is a constable in Annapolis. To the protest of the citizens that constables had not been appointed, the board in charge of the matter replid that they could not find men to accept the office. When Judge Magruder stated that plenty of good men could be found, it was banteringly suggested by a prominent politician that the judge should accept, and he did. This recalls to The Albany Argus a similar incident in the life of Horatio Seymour, one of the greatest men this State has produced, who, after having twice been governor and once the Democratic nominee for president, consented to serve as roadmaster in his residential town of Deerfield, near Utica. In fact, the origin of Governor Seymour's last illness was a sunstroke which he suffered in 1876, while overseeing the repairing of the roads in Deerfield. Justice David J. Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, arraigned the jury system of the country in his lecture on "Responsibilities of Citizenship," before Yale students last month. He said: "Men don't like to serve as jurors, and I don't blame them. The jury system, as it is at present administered, is little less than a relic of a semibarbarous age. The juror is treated little better than a criminal. He is locked up at night and receives but little more pay than a day laborer. He is compelled to listen to the wrangling of lawyers. I hope that the time will come when the juror will be treated like a gentleman, when he will receive the pay of a business man. I also hope that the present system of conviction will give way to one in which the concurrence of a reasonable number of jurors shall determine the verdict. "It is one of the obligations of American citizenship to perform the duties of a witness when summoned into court, although in the present system the witness is treated as a liar and is browbeaten by opposing lawyers. But the juror and the witness should strive for their own elevation, and should perform their duties of citizenship when called upon to do so." intended primarily for the legal profession, and as such will look for circulation among practicing lawyers, rather than among students. The faculty of the Law School has consented to assist the magazine with contributions, and requests for articles have been well received by distinguished legal writers in this country and in England. In addition to the leading articles, the magazine contains a department of book reviews and a department of recent cases. The book reviews will be written by authorities on the subject reviewed. The department of recent cases contains a digest of each of the more important recent cases, accompanied by a discussion of the authorities bearing on the point decided, and a criticism of the result. There is also a department of notes, dealing with minor events in the legal world. One naturally thinks the Supreme Court of the United States as a body of very solemn old gentlemen, clad in silk robes, who go through life oppressed with the dignity of their position and the burden of the questions they are called upon to decide. They are nothing of the kind. Take them at lunch every day, for instance. The gatherings around the table of the Ettrick shepherd did not afford half of the wit and sarcasm which enlivens the lunch-table talk of the Supreme Court judges. They assemble in a room just off the main corridor of the capitol, nearly opposite the Supreme Court chamber, promptly at one o'clock every day, adjourning court for that purpose, and close the shutters of the window which opens out upon the balcony, so that the curious world shall never see or hear. The table is spread in dainty fashion, and, while the judges satisfy the inner man, they tell stories and crack jokes at each other's expense. Justice Brewer is the wittiest member of the party, while Justice Peckham is the most sarcastic. Chief Justice Fuller is the best story teller, while Justice Harlan would monopolize the conversation, if the court would let him, by telling how he drove his golf ball 183 yards by actual measurement. ог 'holed out" in a close match by "putting" from the farthest edge of the green. It was at one of the lunch symposiums, it is said, that Justice Harlan made the remark that golf was the most blasphemous game ever invented.- Washington Post. English Notes. The twentieth annual conference of the International Law Association will, on the invitation of the corporation of Glasgow, be held this year in that city at the end of August. The Middle Temple now enjoys the distinction of having the king among its benchers, says the Law Journal. His majesty became a bencher in 1861, immediately upon joining the Inn. Each of the Inns Columbia University's Law School is now publishing a magazine, known as the "Columbia Law Review." The plan is to publish eight numbers a year. Joseph E. Corrigan, nephew of Archbishop has a member of the royal family on its governing Corrigan, is the editor-in-chief. The magazine is body. The Duke of York is a bencher of Lincoln's Inn, the Duke of Connaught of Gray's Inn and Prince Christian of the Inner Temple. The only Inn ever honored by the presence of Queen Victoria is Lincoln's Inn, which her majesty visited in 1845 for the purpose of opening the new hall. This was the first occasion on which the reigning sovereign had visited the Inns of court for two hundred years. The prince consort, who accompanied the queen, was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn after the hall was opened, and wore a student's gown over his field marshal's uniform during the rest of the ceremony. The Law Journal (London) makes the fact that many of the daily papers, on the demise of the crown, at once changed the familiar title of queen's counsel into that of king's counsel, and appended the letters K. C. to the names of the "silks." Whether in technical accuracy such an immediate change was justifiable, seems to our contemporary somewhat doubtful. The Russell memorial has made good progress since the last report was officially made. The two specified objects of the committee - Mr. Brock's statue for the law courts and Mr. Sargent's portrait for the National Portrait Gallery - are now sure of completion. There is likely, says the Daily Chronicle, to be a balance for application to some more directly philanthropic scheme. It will not be amiss, says the Law Times, to remind members of the legal profession, at the close of the reign of a queen of such glorious memory, that of the five queens of England in their own right since the Norman conquest two came of a legal stock. Queen Mary, the eldest daughter of James II and wife of William III, who shared with him the crown of England, although the government was entirely committed to her husband, and her sister, Queen Anne, were the daughters of Anne Hyde (James II's first wife) and the granddaughters of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, lord chancellor of England. Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, did not live to be queen consort of England. She died in 1671 - fourteen years before her hus band ascended the throne. Lady Hobhouse thinks that lady lawyers are much more needed in the east than in the west. Writing to the Daily News she says: "In India no woman may see the face of her male adviser, and has great difficulty in communicating with him in any save a most indirect way. Her evidence, in court is attended with much ceremony and trouble, as she must not be seen there, and when injustices or illegalities are committed in the zenana or harem, it is almost impossible for any male to investigate them. * * * There is no lack of good-will nor, may I add, of brains on the part of the sex for the work. The Oxford law schools have been opened, and one Indian lady has passed through them, taken the degree of B. C. L., and returned to India; but her sex is a bar to her employment save in a casual and private way, in which manner, however, she has succeeded in helping some of those Zenana women who could not be reached by male agency. One cannot, therefore, avoid thinking that, if the Indian law courts were to follow the example of those in Paris, the whole community would benefit by using the best available brains. As it is now, every man who eats sufficient dinners, pays sufficient fees and passes an easy bar examination may practice in every Indian court, while the woman who has gone through far severer ordeals, and attained far higher honors, cannot do so. Surely where a woman is fittest, both in sex and in brains for this particular work, a way should be made open for her and others, who seek to be useful to themselves and to their Indian sisters, in the legal line.” A case of interest to the legal profession has been raised in the Court of Session, Edinburgh. Margaret Howard Strang Hall, belonging to Kirn, in the west of Scotland, applied for admission to the Incorporated Society of Law Agents to lodge the law agents' examination. The court ordered answers to her petition if they had any; and the society in their answers stated that no lady had ever heretofore been admitted as legal practitioner in the country, and it was a question whether women had a legal right to admission to practice as law agents - -a privilege which had been hitherto confined exclusively to men. The statutes of their society did not appear to contemplate women becoming members of the profession, but the society did not conceive it to be their interest or their duty to maintain that women ought not to be enrolled as law agents. In the First Division of the Scottish Court of Session, says the Times, counsel were heard in support of the application of Miss Margaret H. S. Hall, of Kirn, for admission to the law agents' examination. The court was crowded by members of the bar interested in the pleadings by reason of the application being the first of its kind in Scotland. Mr. Home, who appeared for Miss Hall, said that the lady was eighteen years of age, and had arranged to serve her apprenticeship to an Edinburgh solicitor. She could only be apprenticed by passing the first portion of the general knowledge examination, and the examiners refused to admit her to examination without the sanction of the court. Miss Hall had certificates which would exempt her from examination in every subject but Latin. The Incorporated Society of Law Agents did not oppose the application but left the matter with the court, and he contended that there was nothing in the statutes to prevent a lady from practicing law, while modern opinion opened the way to women entering public life. Mr. Campbell, for the Incorporated Law Agents' Society, pointed out that under the Roman Law women were excluded from practicing. The lord president: Does it not come to this, that we are asked to make a precedent excluding women from the legal profession? Mr. Campbell said that |