when the experience of centuries has conclusively proved the remedy to be worse than the disease. In a paper read to the Statistical Society in flay, 1873, Mr. Janson, Vice-President of the Law Society, states that "from the Statute of Merton (20 Henry III.) to the end of 1872, there had been passed 18,110 public Acts, of which he estimated that four-fifths has been wholly or partially repealed. He also stated that the number of public Acts repealed wholly or partially, or amended, during the years 1870-71-72, had been 3,532, of which 2,750 had been totally repealed." "I have referred to the annually issued volume of 'The Public General Statutes' for the last three sessions. Saying nothing of the numerous amended Acts, the result is that in the last three sessions have been totally repealed, separately or in groups, 650 Acts, belonging to the present reign, besides many of ceding reigns. reigns. . . . But unquestionably, in multitudinous cases, repeal came because the Acts have proved injurious. We talk glibly of such changes; we think of cancelled legislation with indifference; we forget that before laws are abolished they have generally been inflicting evils more or less serious, some for a few years, some for tens of years, some for centuries. Change your vague ideas of a bad law into a definite idea of it as an agency operating on people's lives, and you will see that it means so much of pain, so much of illness, so much of mortality. A vicious form of legal procedure, for example, either enacted or tolerated, entails on suitors costs, or delays, or defeats. What do these imply? Loss of money, often ill spared; great and prolonged anxiety; frequently consequent illness; unhappiness