IN this _fin-de-sîècle_ time, society has grown liberal, it is said, and yet he who thrusts a lever under sage customs, or he who points out the vice of institutions long established, may deem himself happy if he be permitted to strip against the duellist rather than the mob. Even if one come new into the courts of the _literati_ with a cloak dyed a different hue from his fellows, he will scarcely have passed the doorway ere the taunting challenge, “Do you fight, my lord?” The author, in a previous volume entitled _The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason_, pointed out certain defects in the criminal law, and demonstrated how the skilful rogue could commit not a few of the higher crimes in suc…
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