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Rh odicals. His work on "Fixtures" is the standard treatise upon that subject. His "Leading and Select Cases on the Disabilities incident to Infancy, Coverture, Idiocy, etc., with Notes," is the chief repository of the learning upon that branch of the law. He has edited "Evans on Principal and Agent" and "Lindley on Partnership." He re-reported and edited a number of the Illinois Reports, and cooperated in the preparation of a "Digested Index to the Minnesota Reports." He has edited "Blackwell on Tax Titles" and "Washburn on Criminal Law," and prepared a series of three volumes, entitled "Ewell's Essentials of the Law." Vol. I. contains the essentials of Blackstone, Vol. II. the essentials of Pleading, Contracts, and Equity; Vol. III. the essentials of Evidence, Torts, and Real Property. His most recent work is "Ewell's Medical Jurisprudence."

Professor Ewell became connected with the school in 1877, and instructs almost wholly in the Junior Class. So far as the writer is able to judge, he does not believe that Professor Ewell has a superior in his sphere. He is persistent, exceedingly energetic, and absolutely relentless in his determination to impart to his students the capacity to define with entire accuracy the fundamental principles of the law. The writer cannot conceive that any one could accomplish such a task more nearly than does Professor Ewell. He is yet young, and the record of his deeds, though ample for a whole life, argues well for his future.

HENRY BOOTH.

Hon. William W. Farwell, a graduate of Hamilton College in 1837, an ex-Chancellor in Cook County, Ill., has taught Equity Jurisprudence, Equity Pleading and Practice, since 1880. For many years before he became a Chancellor, he had been engaged in an extensive practice at the Chicago Bar. His professional and judicial life qualified him in a very high degree for the discharge of his duties in the Law School. His general reading has been wide. Judge Farwell has secured from every class of students that respect which is due to one of large experience, high moral character, and ripe learning.

Van Buren Denslow, LL.D., was an instructor in this school from 1870 to 1877. He is a finished scholar, with philosophic tendencies. The New York "Nation," vol. xlvii. p. 236, reviewing his recent work entitled "Principles of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government, and Industry," says that "upon the whole we can sincerely commend this volume to our readers as containing the very best exposition of protectionism, its theory and its facts, its animus and its methods, that is now in existence or that is likely to be hereafter produced."

This school for some time had the services of the Hon. John A. Jameson, LL.D., who was born in 1824 in Vermont, and was graduated at Vermont University in 1846. He sat upon the bench of the Superior