Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-16
IETERARY INTELLIGENC e.

The Bench and Bar for July, 1871. Con-
tents are: l, Taking Of Private Property
for Purposes Of Utility ?. Trial by Jury.
3. Circumstantisl Evidsnce. 4. Digest Of
Recent Decisions. 5. Digest Of Bankrupt
CIV Decisions for 1901. g. Notes of New
Law Books. z. Obituaries s. Legal
Memoranda .. Sayings end Doirgs.
Published quarterly by I5ilsgban i Cock
croft, Chicago, Illinois This is an Hnu-
suslly interesting number Ct this able and
popular law journal TheaIticle on Trial
by JGries, sustained by eOgept reasoning
and well timed illustration, favOTs the 8bO-
lition OF this time-hcnorad institution, and
subs itUting therefor the decision of The
court. when, says Inc writer, justice
would be more certain, exsct and swift.
How greatly, too, would it purify end ele-
vate the profession, by taking away almost
entirely the incentive to deception and
trickeTy aud that special and spscious prsc-
tice and eloqUeZce by which juriss ere
SO much influenced" As illustrR-
ting the uncertainty ard stupidity Of jury
verdicts, the following is told: On the trial
of man in England, charged with having
house breaking implements in his posses
sion, with intent 70 commit felony the
foreman delivered the intelligent verdict,
"We f1d the prisoner guIlty, with the
benefit of a doubt" This verdict the
Court declined to receive The fofeman
explained that there wss g doubt, but they
thou2ht the prisoner guilty. This lucid
explanation Only made matters wlrse, and
the "bulwark Of our IbeTties" we're dis
charged In Alabama, & man was tried,
charged with Ilirg his wife. The evidence
was most conciusiJe 8s to his guilt. To
ths>amszement of sl. the jury brought in
q verdict of horse stealing, The 6stonlshed
Judge stated that the indictment Wss not
for horses ealiDg, bat for manslaughter.
The foreman Informed the Court III at II
was not a csss Of man slaughter bus Of
5r0Bldn-slaughter, for which he law msds
no provision: bat boing satisfied that the
man d, served t. BE- hung. they bsd
brou Ut in a verdict Of r5e Sealing,
which in that country would be sure TO
swing him.
The conductors Of LiDpiRc0tts Magazine
have great pleasure n announcing, as
among the contents If the Sept mber num-
Der, the opening chapters Of a superbly IL
Illustrated work, entitled ''6cr m5les
Amongst the alps ia the Years lS60-69,
by Edward Whymper The wood eDgTav-
ings, one hundred and eleven IN Dunber,
including tweLty-ODe foil page illustra-
tionF, have been executed in London by
Mr.. Jamss IlhoDS and Sir. Cyrus john
ston, and msy 10 pronounced, with entire
confidence, uOrvalled, whether In draw
ing or In deic4cy Of finish, by any similar
productions E art. The work, which viii
be continued IA succeeding numbers until
completed, Is graphically written, and con.
tains among numerous other records OF
Alpine adventure, an account Of the au-
thor's celebrated ascent of the Mstterhorn,
in 1865 Rhe faIE % his companions met
with an untiDlciy death.
With Ihs JGIy number thu GG5GIy com
menceS its twsf volume. Tue volume
inst CLOSED er loved s circulation larger by
ten thoui and Than it had when the publiea-
ton begun, ard appearance Indicate that
this twelfth yOiums viii experience like
gain Ia Its regular readers before 1t also Is
brought 60 its conclusion. IL embraces
among it's contributors some Of the Rblest
writer's in this country and Europe, and
the ability sad interest the magazine dis
played during the past six months VIII be
fully sustained IN the future.
The comic and the tragic are about
equally mingled in b0eTy saturday for
july Is. There is a picture OF family Lite
in Paris, during the lighting, and por-
trait of the slaughtered Archbishop. There
is another Of the celebrated theologIan,
DIR. DolliDgeF. A further Illustration q a
theological character, is a dsputauon over
text in winch two negroes are laying
down the law with amusing earnestness.
There is the usUbl varsity of sketches, and
entertaining literary mater. la spirit,
variety and interest, E'oery Saturday has
no superior.
Roberts Brothers, of Boston, have nearly
READY two volumes of poetry, which will
attract much more than the ordIU airy at
tention. The first is that OF the new
American, or California poet, Joaquin
Miller, whose Songs Of the Sierras have
so taken the Eoglish csitlcs by the ears, ss
il were, and who is called by Bret Harte,
1.-The wild buffalo of the pEairies. Un-
tanned he undoubtedly is, but it is clear
that III depth AID strength OF emotion ana
yigor of imagination, he is king ever the
petted Harris, whose supremacy Is already
waning faster than can be pleasant for
him. Though Miller has the western fire
and the western method of thought, he
qrsf5a upon the language none Of tEs wes-
tern dislecic cZcresceuces. Nor has ne
the ssnsuality Of the modern English poets
like Swipburne and Rosetti. He writes In