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...difficult questions with which our States have at present to deal. Because of the dangerous increase of divorce, the consequent alarm of the people, and the rise and spread of agitation on the subject, it has become a live and serious question. In the December number of the Andover Review, Rev. A. P. Peabody says: "Christian civilization at the present time is encountering no peril of so dire portent as the loosening of the mystical bond, with the inevitably consequent profligacy of every name and type...
...December issue of the Harvard Law Review, which was received too late for notice before the Christmas recess, is as neat in appearance and as admirable in workmanship as its predecessors. The two leading articles are upon questions of law peculiarly interesting at the present day: one touching upon the clashing interests of manufacturers and of town water-works companies in the use of water in "great ponds"; the other treating of the liability of an employer for injuries done an employee through the carelessness of other employees. The first article is entitled "The Watuppa Paid Cases" and is contributed...
...Lawton's work as a translator of classics is well known, especially from his translations and articles in the North American Review and other magazines. He has lectured at Wellesley and at several other colleges, and the Classical Club are to be congratulated in having put it in the power of the students to hear so distinguished...
Best general references: G. G. Hubbard in North Am. Review, vol. 137, p. 521; Senator Cullom in Forum...
Best general references: N. A. Review vol. 137, p. 422; Hadley, Railroad Transportation...