Russian "Justice."—Euler, in his 102nd letter to a German princess, says:
"Formerly there was no word in the Russian language to express what we call justice. This was certainly a very great defect, as the idea of justice is of very great importance in a great number of our judgments and reasonings, and as it is scarcely possible to think of the thing itself without a term expressive of it. They have, accordingly, supplied this defect by introducing into that language a word which conveys the notion of justice."
This letter is dated 14th February, 1761. Statne nominis umbra? An answer is not needed to this Query. But can nothing be done to rescue from destruction the precious analytical treasures of Euler, now entombed in the archives of St. Petersburgh?
T. J. Buckton.
Birmingham.
False Dates in Water-marks of Paper.—Your correspondent H. W. D. (Vol. ix., p. 32.) on the subject of the water-mark in paper, is, perhaps, not aware that, within the last few years, the will of a lady was set aside by the heir-at-law, her brother, on account of the water-mark, she having imprudently, as it was surmised, made a fairer copy of her will on paper of a later date. The case will be in the recollection of the parties employed in the neighbourhood of the Prerogative Court.
L.