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Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor,, 15½ Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

HE Law Journal (London) makes the following interesting statement in regard green bag of the lawyer. It is called out citation of authorities upon the subject April number:—

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"Twenty years afterwards Mr. Gibbes Rigaud, writing from Oxford, replied as follows (6th S. iv., July 23, 1881):—

While authorities thus seem to differ as to whether the green bag is really to be considered as having been a "badge of a lawyer" in times past, the discussion has been one of no little interest. If any of our readers can offer any statements which throw light upon the subject, the Editor would be very glad to receive them.

In response to numerous requests received from our readers we publish in this number an excellent likeness of that greatest of all American advocates, . For the sketch of his life which accompanies it, we are largely indebted to the "Reminiscences of Rufus Choate," written by Edward G. Parker.