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AMONG the noted writers who either by original or selected matter are brought together in the July number of CURRENT LITERATURE are Hamilton Wright Mabie, Richard Burton, Moses Coit Tyler, John Hay, Henry Van Dyke, M. W. Hazeltine, W. Robertson Nicoll, Lilian and Arthur T. QuillerCouch, D. T. MacDougal, Ernest Ingersoll, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, William Winter, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Norman Gale, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Tabb, Clinton Scollard, Gilbert Parker and George W. Cable, editor of the magazine.

MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE for July contains an article on the late Professor Drummond, written by his intimate friend the Rev. D. M. Ross. The source of Drummond's rarely equaled influence over men— assemblages as well as individuals was his own charm of character; and Mr. Ross's paper deals especially with his personal traits. The actual daily life of the citizens of William R. George's "Boys' Republic" — one of the most interesting philanthropic enterprises yet undertaken — is depicted in an article by Mary Gay Humphreys. The short stories in this number are by Conan Doyle, Anthony Hope, and Robert Barr.

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THE opening article for the midsummer HARPER'S is a story, by Frederic Remington, of Indian fighting in winter, entitled "A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop." The illustrations are by the author, and include the frontispiece of the number, in color. In addition to this there are seven complete stories: Sharon's Choice,” by Owen Wister; "The Cobbler in the Devil's Kitchen," by Mary Hartwell Catherwood; In the Rip," by Bliss Perry ; "The Marrying of Esther," by Mary M. Mears; "A Fashionable Hero," by Mary Berri Chapman; and “A Fable for Maidens," by Alice Duer. In The Inauguration," a companion article to The Coronation," Richard Harding Davis contrasts our political and social life, as manifested in our greatest national ceremony with that of the Old World. In The Hungarian Millennium," F. Hopkinson Smith writes of the distinctions and humors of the recent exA State in Arms against

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a Caterpillar," by Fletcher Osgood, is an illustrated account of the ravages of the offspring of the gypsy-moth, which, having devastated large tracts in the suburbs of Boston, is being prevented from spreading throughout the country only by organized effort on the part of Massachusetts.

WHAT SHALL WE READ?

This column is devoted to brief notices of recent publications. We hope to make it a ready-reference column for those of our readers who desire to inform themselves as to the latest and best new books. (Legal publications are noticed elsewhere.)

MR. WARD has written a very bright and interesting continuation of his wife's (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) two stories, "An Old Maid's Paradise," and "A Burglar in Paradise." He calls his story The Burglar who moved Paradise, and the account of the burglarious moving of Paradise on two scows is infinitely amusing. The book is just what one needs to while away an hour during the summer vacation.

1 THE BURGLAR WHO MOVED PARADISE. By Herbert D. Ward. Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston and New York, 1897. Cloth, $1.25.

THE agrarian and financial agitation through which the country has been passing for the past few years has been but a repetition of the troubles which confronted our government at the close of the Revolution. The same spirit of discontent witnessed today prevailed in 1786, among the farmers of New England, and gave rise to what is known as Shays' Rebellion. The events of those stirring times have been embodied in an interesting and dramatic story entitled Captain Shays, a Populist of 1786.1 The author gives an historically accurate account of the rebellion, and at the same time offers the reader one of the most delightful stories of old New England which it has been our good fortune to read.

ALL those who are interested in our early colonial history will find Mr. Hilton's new book, entitled In Buff and Blue, well worth the reading, and those who care less for history and more for romance, will much enjoy the pretty little love story which is interwoven with the sterner realities of war and its drilling and fighting. It is a curious confirmation of the saying that men's minds run in the same channel,” that the hero of "In Buff and Blue" goes to the Meschianza, the large ball given in honor of Gen. Howe on the eighteenth of May, in disguise, and in the June installment of Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker," the serial by S. Weir Mitchell, running in the " Century," his hero also goes to this ball in disguise. These two accounts must have been published almost simultaneously in Boston and New York.

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1 CAPTAIN SHAYS, a Populist of 1786. By George R. R. Rivers. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1897. Cloth.

2 IN BUFF AND BLUE, Being Certain Portions from the Diary of Richard Hilton, Gentleman of Haslet's Regiment of Delaware Foot in our ever glorious War of Independence. By George Brydges Rodney. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1897. Price, $1.25.

NEW LAW-BOOKS.

THE GENERAL DIGEST. American and English. Vol. II, new series. The Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing Co., Rochester, N. Y.

The publishers have met with the general approbation of the legal profession in the new departure which they have taken in this Digest. The change made may be summed up as follows:

The semi-monthly becomes quarterly; the annual becomes semi-annual; and the bound book is limited to (1) officially reported cases and (2) cases not to be officially reported. These reasons, as given by the publishers are: (1) twenty-four small pamphlets a year are inconvenient; (2) the book has become too large, and must become still larger unless divided; and (3) the quarterly parts being convenient and prompt, the permanent book may defer not officially reported cases until the official reports can be cited, except those not to be officially reported at all. The quarterly parts contain all American and English reported cases cited where first published; the permanent semi-annual books contain officially reported cases, cited wherever published officially and unofficially.

In its new form the "General Digest" seems to leave nothing to be desired.

THE ANNUAL ON THE LAW OF REAL PROPERTY. Vol. IV, 1895. Edited by Tilghman E. Ballard and Emerson E. Ballard. The Ballard Pub. Co., Crawfordsville, Ind., 1897.

This series of Annuals is a complete compendium of Real Estate Law, and is a valuable aid to all lawyers whose practice embraces litigation involving questions regarding Realty. The cases are selected with evident care and discrimination and cover almost every point likely to arise.

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VOL. IX. No. 9.

BOSTON.

SEPTEMBER, 1897.

JOHN TAYLOE LOMAX.

BY ELIZABETH W. P. LOMAX.

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this sketch it may be as well to state that a handsome notice of this eminent Virginia jurist was prepared by his grandson, the Hon. Lunsford Lomax Lewis, ex-judge of the court of appeals, Richmond, Va., at the request of the editor of the Virginia "Law Register" in May, 1896. This brief biographical sketch was no doubt widely read, yet leaves something to be said by the present chronicler.

He married Elizabeth Wormley, a daughter of the Hon. Ralph Wormley and Catherine his wife, who was the only daughter of Sir Thomas Lunsford. Sir Thomas had been a zealous partisan of King Charles I in the Civil War, which made him so obnoxious to Parliament that he was forced to leave. England. This brief England. He came to Virginia. Here, on the twenty-fourth of October, 1650, he obtained a grant for land extending for five or six miles, encircling Port Tobago Bay on the Rappahannock River. Through this marriage of John Lomax with the granddaughter of Sir Thomas Lunsford a valuable domain was acquired, which descended for generations to the Lomax family.

John Tayloe Lomax came of a line of ancestry notable if not illustrious. He was the second son of Thomas Lomax and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his wife, and was born at the family seat, Port Tobago, in the county of Caroline, State of Virginia, the nineteenth of January, 1781.

John Lomax, the progenitor of the family in this country, emigrated to the colony of Virginia, from the county of Northumberland, England, about 1700. He was the son of John Lomax, a clergyman of considerable distinction in the Established in the Established Church and a Master of Arts of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His living was that of Wooler, in the county above mentioned, from which he was ejected after the restoration of Charles II, for declining to conform to the Act of Uniformity, passed in 1662.

In Calamy's "History of the Ejected and Silenced Ministers," a high tribute is paid to his piety and learning and to his patience under persecution.

In 1703, shortly after his arrival in this country, John Lomax sought the star of his fate in one of the daughters of the colony.

John Tayloe Lomax, the subject of this sketch, on his mother's side of the house, was connected with most of the prominent families of the State. His mother as Anne Corbin Tayloe had married Thomas Lomax of Port Tobago, while her seven sisters stepped each across the threshold of Mount Airy (Richmond County, Virginia), as a Lloyd of Maryland, as the wife of Francis Lightfoot Lee, or as the bride of her cousin, the Hon. Ralph Wormley, as the case might be, while another sister became the wife of Mann Page of Rosewell, who erected the magnificent mansion, Rosewell, early in the eighteenth century. Another married Landon Carter of Sabine Hall. Another, William Augustine Washington, nephew of George Washington, and the youngest sister became the wife of Robert Beverly of Blandfield.

The estate of Port Tobago then, as well as Mount Airy and the old Octagon House,

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