lawyer and politician. The first volume -is of special interest
to readers on this side of the Atlantic, as it contains Evarts's speech for the ' Alabama' claims in 1872, his skilful and successful argument on behalf of President Johnson at his im- peachment in 1868, and also his argument in the final stage of the critical Lemmon slave case in 1860, which raised the question whether slaves could be held by their owner while he was passing ivith them through New York State. The second volume includes Evarts's defence of Henry Ward Beecher in the cele- brated and painful case of " Tilton v. Beecher" in 1875. We are glad to find, hi sampling these volumes, that Evarts's high reputation for eloquence is fully justified. It must have been a pleasure to listen to his easy and graceful oratory. His partner Mr. Choate, as the editor reminds us, described him as " the quickest-witted man I ever met."
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