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426 426 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. mended for the teaching of administrative law and of political science; but the most unqualified praise seems reserved for the Law Schools of this country in the matter of preparation for the bar. The Right Honorable James Bryce testified that the plan of S3^stematic teaching of law has proved so successful in the United States that he advocates it positively in England. Mr. Dicey, Vinerian Professor at Oxford and Queen's Counsel, testified that ** the Law Schools in America possess a reputation which is unlike anything which is possessed by any law school here." Sir Frederick Pollock, Corpus Christi Professor of Jurispru- dence at Oxford, declared that *' the American Law Schools have convinced the profession there that they do teach law in an efficient way, — in a way which makes a man not only a better in- structed lawyer, but a better practical lawyer." There was no dissent moreover from this concurring commendation of our Law Schools. Finally, the Commission, after two years of investigation and reflection, reported, in 1894, '* that the time has now arrived when a more complete system of legal education may be and ought to be established in London, that this is only possible with the con- currence of the Inns of Court, that on reasonable conditions the Inns of Court are likely to co-operate and to open their lectures to the public, reserving to themselves the entire control over the call to the bar, but being ready to accept as a test of theoretical knowl- edge the degree or certificate of the University." The Commis- sion therefore propose that the Inns of Court be represented on the governing body of the University. Also that the Incorporated Law Society be represented on the same body. It also recom- mends that the Law Faculty be constituted with a view to persons studying for either branch of the profession of the law in Great Britain, India, or the Colonies, and equally for persons engaging in the public service, civil or diplomatic, also for persons engaged or about to engage in public life in the administration of public law as members of Parliament, magistrates, etc. Also for persons applying themselves to work of investigation or research in any of the subjects of the faculty. This noble and comprehensive plan, as nearly as can be learned, is being carried forward by the slow and cautious methods which our " kin beyond sea" always prefer. It is privately anticipated that Mr. Crackanthorpe will be called on to aid in shaping the final action which will insure to England