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 Rh served from 1854 to 1857; he was a State Senator in 1858 and 1859, and President of the Senate in 1859; Consul-General at Constantinople from 1861 to 1864; Judge of Cumberland County Superior Court from 1868 to 1871; Postmaster of Port land from 1871 to 1884; Commissioner for the Revision of the Statutes of Maine from 1881 to 1883; Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Maine Medical School since 1872, and was chairman of the Police Commission of Portland in 1885. He leaves a widow (the daughter of ex-Gov. Anson P. Morrill), three sons, and two daughters. Mr. William Hours, for many years a wellknown lawyer of Boston, died suddenly of apo plexy at his home in Brookline on the 9th of March. He was a native of Waltham, where he was born July 11, 1819. For a number of years he resided in Roxbury, and was in the Common Council during the last two years of that city's ex istence as a separate body from Boston, 1866 and 1867. The next two years he was an active mem ber of the Common Council of the City of Boston, when Mayor ShurtlefT was at the head of the muni cipal government. George W. Nichols, for twenty-seven years assistent clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, Mass., and for thirteen years clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa chusetts, closing his labors Jan. 1, 1888, died at Amherst, N. H., March 11. He leaves a wife and one daughter. Congressman Richard W. Townshend, of Illi nois, who died March 9, was a native of Mary land, and born April 30, 1840. After receiving his training in the public and private schools, he removed to Illinois, and taught school there. He then began the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858, and commenced practice. He served as clerk of the Circuit Court of Hamilton County five years, and from 1868 to 1872 he was prosecuting attorney for the Twelfth Judicial Dis trict of the State. In 1864 and 1865, and again in 1874 and 1875, he was a member of the Illi nois State Democratic Committee, and was a dele gate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1872. He was elected to the Fortyfifth Congress and succeeding sessions till his death.

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Judge G. R. Barrett died, March 9, at the age of seventy-three years, at his home in Clear field, Penn. He was appointed by President Pierce in 1856 to codify the revenue laws. He served as Judge of the Twenty-fifth Judicial District continu ously for eighteen years, when he resigned. Hon. John A. Campbell, ex-Justice of the United States Supreme Court and Assistant Con federate Secretary of War, died at his home in Baltimore, March 12, aged nearly seventy-eight. He regarded his success in the great " State " case, as it is called, the States of New York and New Hampshire v. Louisiana, as the triumph of his legal life, as it established his view of the rights of the States under the Constitution. Judge Campbell was considered one of the greatest lawyers in the United States. He was certainly a most accomplished advocate. He con fined himself to powerful argument, and never in dulged in declamation. His clearness of statement and the force and precision of his language were remarkable. His manner was above the common order of forensic delivery. His wit was not genial or playful, but sarcastic. It is related of him that being asked by a young attorney of New Orleans, not distinguished for his talents, whether he (Judge Campbell) had any objection to the attorney join ing in a great case at that time conducted by Judge Campbell-and other eminent lawyers, he answered : "Most certainly not, my dear sir. provided you do not appear on my side."

REVIEWS In an article on " Solicitor and Client " in the Canada Law Journal (March 1), the author ad vances the following remarkable statement : " Law yers are like other men, and are liable to form an extravagant estimate of the value of their services, and sometimes may think themselves deserving of and justified in accepting from their clients gifts over and above their legal fees for services rendered." We had supposed the profession to be particu larly modest in this respect. In fact, it has been our experience that the lawyer who succeeds in get ting even his legalfees is generally more than satis fied. However, if there are any dissatisfied ones who feel that they are deserving of more than their