“ But on the other hand, and apart from the question of hanging, several of our friends among the War Correspondents have certainly run very great risks by their imprudence of pen, and utter want of reticence and self-control, on many important occasions. In the excitement of the scenes that surround them, they often seem totally to forget, in their anxiety to send the news of important coming events, that they are betraying war secrets. ”

“ The growth of trial by jury has probably been a gradual process. Its origin was, with little room for doubt, as follows:—In the early times of our own history, a small number of men lived together: they constituted a tithing, or a larger number a hundred. Now, these names have no sensible meaning, if we regard their ancient meaning: they denote merely the limits of topographical boundaries, the space within those limits. Then, they really meant an association of ten families in a tithing, or a hundred families in a hundred. A man committed a crime in a hundred, say. ”

“ What would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army falling through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.” As it is, the people of the capital, and not the northern savages, have made the most use of their knowledge of the art of mounting into the air. ”

“ The tithing man was to a certain extent answerable for the men of his tithing, and so on. A. B. guaranteed the good conduct of C. D. People living together were answerable for one another; and when one was charged with a crime, the others came forward to swear to his character. The criminal had to purge himself of his guilt among the set he lived in. As to the evidence given at these trials, a complication arises from our ignorance of the value of that evidence. Every man's oath had a value, differing according to his status in society. ”

“ In some parts of the world, the bounty of nature provides, and the paucity of inhabitants maintains, such a glut of animal food that it is comparatively valueless; while in others, chiefly old and highly civilized communities, the price of the most approved animal food is such as to put it practically out of the everyday reach of the poorer classes of the population. ”

“ Now, we do not wish to be revengeful, and still less bloodthirsty, from esprit de corps; but in these particular days, when human life is regarded as of less account than in almost any previous period of history in the prodigality of its waste, one really might be pardoned for the passing thought that if any man ever deserved to be tried by a drum-head court martial, with the usual foregone conclusion as to hanging or shooting, one of the very first ought to be this same ex-Marshal Le Boeuf ”

“ I call upon all Englishmen who respect vested rights which have never been abused to uphold those of the threatened Z; and, regardless of fashion, continue to employ him as before, where he has always given satisfaction. ”

“ It is to be regretted that—although, as our figures show, so much attention and the labour of so many minds has been turned to this subject—no very satisfactory result has yet been obtained. Possibly, complete success is not very far in the future ”

“ Hundreds of patents have been taken out, during a period extending from 1691 to the present day, for methods or processes by which articles of food may be preserved in an eatable condition for a considerable length of time. ”