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 Gilbert Clark says: "As Attorney-General, his income was seventy thousand dollars a year. He is said to have received one hundred thousand dollars for his services in the Parnell commission and the Times libel matter. He earned, during the legal year which closed last August, about forty thousand pounds (two hundred thousand dollars), the largest figure even his great professional income has ever reached. His fees in four days at the summer assizes amounted to three thousand pounds. Sir Richard has certainly made more money at the Bar than any man of his time; and few have ever equalled him."

"James C. Carter is, by the general consent of the New York Bar, spoken of as the leader of the profession. This title has not been accorded so generally to any man since the death of Charles O'Conor, with whom Mr. Carter was associated in several important litigations, especially in the great Jumel case, which they carried, after years of labor under extraordinary difficulties, to a brilliant termination. Mr. Carter was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, October 14, 1827, and is a graduate of Harvard college. He is a gentleman of fine appearance, of courtly manners, and impressive speech. His main superiority consists in his broad and philosophical view of the law. In his arguments he prefers to seek the fountain rather than to follow the streamlets. He builds upon the broadest and strongest foundations, and it may generally be said of him, as was said of Mr. Calhoun, that if you grant his premises you are bound to accept his conclusions. Although he has had considerable success as a jury lawyer, his main excellence has been in great arguments before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. Though defeated by a closely divided court in the great Tilden will case, his argument in that celebrated litigation does him great honor. He was of counsel for the United States in the Behring Sea case, and his eight-day argument elicited great commendation. It was masterly in its generalization and its philosophy, in its breadth, and in the