The Ilaybek Case. By Alex. W. Macdougall. (Bailliere, Tindal, and
Co.)—Mr. Macdougall proves the sincerity of his belief in Mrs. Maybriek's innocence by writing and publishing a largo volume (nearly six hundred pages of close print) about the case. We do not intend to reargue the matter, but we may say that Mr. Macdougall's efforts would have been more likely to be successful if he could only have got rid of the damning fact of the accused woman's adultery. That he acknowledges, though he naturally lays the chief blame on her partner in guilt, and makes an attack, of which we do not see the object, on the management of the evidence for the prosecution on this point. The unfaithfulness of a wife, followed by the death of the husband
with symptoms of arsenical poisoning, is an absolutely fatal com- bination of circumstances.
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