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THE death of Sir Henry Maine, F.R.S., has created a great blank in the serious literature of England. He was the first Englishman who applied to the study of law and early institutions the rigid methods of science, and the results at which he arrived marked an epoch in the investigation of these subjects. His literary style, combining as it did extraordinary vigour, lucidity, and grace, was scarcely less remarkable than his grasp of far-reaching principles. He died suddenly, of apoplexy, at Cannes, on Friday evening last. He was in his sixty-sixth year.