, 1872-11-20
PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
The Galaxy for November.
The WetherelI AfTair--~FrenCh Scenes.
Customs, and Characters.
Historic Loyers.-.some Great English
Lawyers--.The History OF
Emancipation.

LaWyers---ii'e H's'o'Y ~
Emancipation.
IN the golarvfor December, J. ". De Forest,
4he snthor Of SKATE Beaumont, beglns line
yethereu Affair."" new serial story. MI. De
Forests rivacious manner, his familiarity With
tba machinery of noyel-making, and an
insieht into the Development of events, il not
into The inner workings of human nature, added
to close study Of American society, make his
stories very readable. Edward Wetherell, " the
New York dandy and man about tow" makes his
appearance on the promenade-decko Of the steam
er. Elm City, bound from New York to New
Haven. Nestoria, the daughter Of 8 Persian
missionary. is there, too; and Al acquaintance
begins which will grow into something serious,
If the reviewer may be accepted as any Judge
r sDurand Writes of "French Scenes. Customs,
and Characters One of them would bear imi-
tation:
-pl and this time in the City OF Paris Looking
the Gazette des 1ri6'tnaur Willie taking my breakfast
morning in cafe, my eye encountered the 1oo~-
Number one WIS the condemnation Of 3 den1er in
milk to SO francs fine for adulterang milk with water,
together with the cost of printing and posting twenty
notices Of the sentence In the vicinity Of the place
where the milk had been sold.
Number two was similar penalty for the same offence
against woman known as Mother Eve DeWaae Ece],
and by profession nnrae.
Number three was the came penalty on another Of
game SEX With the addition Of e1x days 1mpf1spn-
1nflf.' nSa.' 0es'usS <As l4N pa' '''s As - "1 e
Several others followed against and men for
adu|terat;ne pire with vates,-the retailers being
obliged to pay fines Of 50 francs, and wholesale dealers
Mapy Offenders were sentenced for de,11ng in COT
rurt eat and fish; one for selling crabs in state oi
decomposition, to fo7sycieat hours IN prison several
living il the country to the like imprisonment for
sending to market the flesh Of anirna1s dying natural
death; others for selling counterfeit goods- being
imprisoned month for disposing Of false coral for
real, and another, : grocer, for selling BY false
To test the integrity Of these verdicts went
ofthe shops indicated in which aduerated milk had
been sold and found 1t shut the legal notices duly
posted and necessarily the business Of the proprietor
destroyed
>"Life on the Plains' is by General G. 4. Gus
tar, and describes the campaign with the Indians
on the frontier in 1868.
Canon Kingsley, who is said to have intro
duced Target ginati7e element into his lectures
while Professor Of History at Cambridge, has re-
Gently abandoned historic studies, on the ground
that he had become more and more convinced OF
the impossibility Of ascertaining the truth With
regard to any historic event. There Is Less
incongruity, if this be true, in the opposite char
number of the Gat0ry az novelist and historian.
In an article entitled The Growth Of Giant
Pope" he portrays the rise OF the Pontifical
power, from the arrival Of the Apostle Paul IN
Rome, A. D. g. to the assumption in 642 by
Theodore L Of tic title Of Pontlfex Maximus:
Romeo and Juliet; Petrarch and Laura Gil
bert a Beckett Gather Of Thomas a Beckett and
the Earaccn maiden Timura Agnes Sorel, mis-
and the Countess of Albany; Mirabeau sald to
resemble "a a tiger who has had the smallpox; "
John Wilkes, another homely man, who needed
half an hour to talk away his face ): and Goethe,
H. U,afn T nf
Henri Browne reveals the amatory panss.
the ehe ea.ery q, is sn' "some esns Great t Eng =
lsh Lawyers, ty Justin -, Mccarthy, the
ambition in England is seat on the Bench. 70
this, the shortest way lies through the door OF
the House Of Commons:
One brilliant speech in Parliament brings man ma
the Bench tha twenty years OF patient iod
ding in the Law Courts. OF course
this System has it's defects frequently places On the
Judicial Bench who has really to learn his Law
when he gets there In one case which was recently
very prominent, it made Judge Of q bold and
suddenly elevated "a little Of law he did of morals
1have hesitation in faying that aude to the Irish
~hsh Keogh vas nude Judge after brief and bril-.
liant Parliamentary e.reer his knowedge Of law wss
eaiIed Infamous. The pubic opinion Of lis own coun-
try first looked his elevation to the Bench as one
might regard some brutal practical joke The system
Of electng Judges is to my mind quite iudefen6ihe
but 1t must be owned that no Irish community, how:
ever reckless or debased would have then thought o
Sjnce then, It is undeniabs that be ha. studied law
and retrieved his character to extent Il don't
t t e a
be something defective in system which made euch
appointment at such time not only possible, bn
almost inevitable.
Sir Alexander Cockbsrn, who has-
handsome face, bright sweet mnnners, clear voice
free and facile STYLE almost unknown to the pub
c at large until he bad st his youth far behind hin
and he won 1t all in fash He had found seat u
the House Of s and t,a made net 9s1
Paciaeon del debate IN 1850. This vas tbe memoF
able occasion when Lord palnerston, defending
for hghhandad G m M srrdsanse eaprated the House AMI
the country by his boast that citizen OF Englaut
sy us oa hs tue m
Pa1merstona speech was thrown into the shade by to
Rnder cockburn, surprised and delighted the House
When the orator Sat down, the Ministerial bsncho
Of members to congratulate him That epeech wa
the sensation Of the session. I doubt whether an.
such a sensation. For, although ther'
have been many far greater speeches, yet these cam
With the natura and wejustihsd anticipation grea
things. But Cockburn rose to speak that night an OF
scure ran, and he sat down celebrity. The succea
was like that which really great actor makes whe
he gets his first chance OF playing fne part, ane
coming the stage nobody Leaves it with fame AM
mentsry speaking. It would not BE- easy to convey
any stranger full idea Of the influence on man
career which one remarkable speech IN the House
Commons may have. Cockburn's way was made b
that night. LII few months, he was appointed ST
Nctor General; in fe,s months nores be WAS raise
to the rank OF Attorney General.
Sir John Coleridge is another lawyer in Parlia
meut:
He spoke, think, for three weeks in the Tict
borne case least he occupied e7ery day, from th
opening of tie Court to it's cloene, for about thre
weeks in tho delivery Of his address, and there
to the listeners Particular Why, he chos
he might not go for three years. He is terribly d
fuse. Compared with him. Gladstone is concise an
Ca1dweu laconic. 1t seems az if be were posidvel
incapable Of answering the simplest questions in fe
clear words. Obviously, he iB enanored Of his ow
style Of speaking, loves to hear his voice. tt
goce snd style are both own, very charming 8. Jon
Bright called Coleridge the most !" beautiful
speaker in the House Of Commons. better descril
ton could not well be given. The speeches " beA1