There is one eminently popular paper in the new number
of The Law Quarterly Review,—Mr. Edward Manson's "Scenes in Court from the Year Books." This shows how in the days of the Plantagenets, the King's Justices were in the habit of swearing, —even a Bishop was told to "go to the devil;" how a Justice bade a counsel "stop his noise ; " and how a jury, hesitating over a question of legitimacy, was warned, "You shall tell us in another way how he was next heir, or you shall remain shut up without eating or drinking until to-morrow morning." Apart from this article the new number of The Law Quarterly Review is an admirable one, containing a large number of articles and notes, that are at once solidly informing and up-to-date. Specially deserving of commendation are Mr. Thomas Snow's "The New Rules of the Supreme Court," and Mr. Francis E. Bradley's "Modern Legislation in the United Kingdom."
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