ish barrister,
everywhere seen over the border in Canada, by which, it is well known, he
is always accompanied when he goes to court and while he remains there in
attendance. This bag contains his briefs, papers and other impedimenta
connected with trials. It is not surprising, but it is touching, to find
Boston holding on to this last hope of accomplishing that for which so many
frantic efforts have been made in this country, only to meet with failure.

The last article in this magazine, of the series on "The Supreme Court of
New Jersey", is delightful in expression and in form; it has a fine large
type, is illustrated with well-executed portraits of the judges, in group
and singly, and is altogether most attractive and interesting.


Bayard Tuckerman.

Mr. Tuckerman, who resided for some time in Morristown, and whose ancestry
is associated with artistic and literary taste and genius, is the author of
"The Life of General Lafayette", published in 1889, during his residence
in Morristown, and, a copy of which was presented by the author, in person,
to the Morristown Library. Before this, he published a "History of English
Prose Fiction", in 1882, and after it, in 1889 again, he edited "The Diary
of Philip Hone". This author is now engaged on another book, to be
published in the spring in the "Makers of America" series, with the title
of "Peter Stuyvesant".

"The Diary of Philip Hone" is a charming book, especially to those familiar
with old New York. The editorship of any life requires a talent for
selection and a gift for combining and drawing together much desultory
matter, but when we consider that the two volumes, into which Mr. Tuckerman
compressed his material were less than one-fourth the original diary, which
fills twenty-eight quarto manuscript volumes, the herculean task is at once
apparent. A critic in one of the popular journals says of it: "As a rule
the diary needs little interpretation and it may be welcomed as an
agreeable, gossipy contribution to civic annals, and as a pleasant record
of a citize