a- lar habits of thought in the United States. That
there is in that country a frightful amount of crimes of violence is c, ( n- eeded on all hands. Mr. Bausman finds some of the causes in a foolish sentimental sympathy with criminals, in the reluctance of juries to convict, and the readiness of the Courts to allow pleas for delay and technical objections. The grim jest of the French criminal who, having murdered his parents, claimed mercy because he was an orphan, has been almost translated into fact. Some brute who had murdered his wife was pardoned on the petition of his daughter. His death would have made her an orphan! A less dangerous, but even more silly, exhibition of maudlin sentiment was allowing a criminal condemned to lifelong imprisonment to spend Christmas with his family ! We do not care to dwell on the subject, but Mr. Bausman gives his country- men very good reasons for seeing that it is high time to change their ways.
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