SIR HENRY MAINE, one of the ablest legal essayists of the nineteenth century, was especially noted for his lectures and essays on International Law. He was born August 15th, 1822, and educated at Cambridge University, where he became Regius Professor of Civil Law in 1847. This position he held for seven years. From 1869 to 1878 he was Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford. In 1887 he returned to Cambridge as Whewell Professor of International Law, but his usefulness was cut short by his death the next year (February 3d, 1888). Among his most notable works are “Ancient Law,” “Village Communities,” “Popular Government,” “Early History of Institutions,” and “International Law,”—the latter, published in 1888, being his last work.