Hon. Thomas Drummond, ex-Judge of the United States Circuit Court, died at Wheaton, Ill., May 15. Judge Drummond was a native of Maine, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1830. He then went to Philadelphia, and studied law in the office of William T. Dwight, and was there admitted to the bar in March, 1833. He removed to Galena, Ill., in 1835, and finally settled in Chicago in 1854. In December, 1869, he was appointed Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Seventh Judicial Dis trict, comprising Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. He retired in 1884, at the age of seventy-five. Judge Drummond was a keen, profound, and honorable jurist, and he leaves behind him a flawless record.
REVIEWS. The Juridical Review for April presents a very attractive table of contents. The leading article is Hon. Edward J. Phelps's address, de livered at the Centennial Celebration of the Es tablishment of the Supreme Court of the United States; J. G. Bourinot contributes a paper on "The Federal Constitution of Canada Jules Challamel gives some interesting statistics con cerning " Divorce in France; " Charles Sweet discusses "The Question of Fusion in the Legal Profession; " and A. Wood Renton de scribes " The Work of the West Indian Commis sioners." The frontispiece is a fine portrait of Professor Lorimer, late Professor of Public Law in the University of Edinburgh, accompanied by a short sketch of his life.
The March-April number of the American Law Review comes as usual filled with useful and readable matter. The contents are as fol lows : " American Law concerning Employer's Liability," by Hon. John F. Dillon; " Crimes against Criminals," an address delivered by Robert G. Ingersoll before the New York State Bar Association; " The True Method of Legal Education," by George H. Smith; " The Pro posed German Civil Code," by Ernst Freund; "Codification," by David Dudley Field; " A Lawyer's Address to a Lay Audience," by Henry
C. Caldwell; "How the Supreme Court of Ten nessee cleared its Docket," by J. M. Dickinson. The "Notes " are bright and sparkling as ever.
The April number of the Harvard Law Re view begins the fourth year of the existence of this excellent law journal. The contents are: "The Story of Mortgage Law," by H. W. Chap lin; " The Right of Access and the Right to Wharf out to Navigable Waters," by Alfred E. McCordic and Wilson G. Crosby; " Defective Alimony Decrees in Massachusetts," by George F. Ormsby. Johns Hopkins University Studies, Eighth Series, IV. Spanish Colonization in the South west, by Frank W. Blackmar, Ph. D. This is one of the most interesting papers yet published in this series. No study has ever been more attractive to the student than that of the results of the Spanish occupation of the New World; and the story, as told by Mr. Blackmar, of the Spanish Colonies in California is fascinat ing in the extreme.
Scribner's Magazine for May contains an article of unusual richness in illustration, deal ing with the country about Barbizon, made fa mous by Millet's pictures. " Barbizon and Jean-Francois Millet " is the first of two ar ticles by T. H. Bartlett, — the result of a long residence in that country, where he has constantly met with members of Millet's family and others who knew him intimately, and has had access to a great many of the artist's un published letters. The groups of eccentric and famous artists — Le Dieu and Aligny, Corot, Rousseau, and Barye — who preceded Millet in Barbizon are sketched, and the art life of the place is related from its very beginning, with special reference to the personal reminiscences and amusing anecdotes which still are told in Barbizon about these famous men. The other contents -are a practical article on home-building for men of small incomes; two short stories of striking originality by entirely new writers; the second paper in the useful " Rights of the Citi zen " series; and a description of Japanese theatres by a Japanese author, fully illustrated
