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364 tunity for avoiding cases which promise to be more than usually troublesome, says: "Apart from disorganization and particular faults in our administration of justice, there is a want of honest spirited devotion to duty amongst the judges which is detrimental to the public interest. If some of the platitudes about the high-mindedness and courage and the other virtues of bench and bar were dropped, and a little plain thinking, finding expression in plain words, were to take their place, the better it would be for the public and the profession."

for July contains an interesting portrait of Sir Edward Coke, with a biographical sketch. Its other contents are "Joseph Story," by Elizabeth P. Gould; "Springer Amendment to the Federal Constitution," by Charles B. Waite; "The Woman Lawyer," by Dr. Louis Frank; "The Royal Courts of Justice," by Hon. Elliott Anthony, and "A Century of Republicanism," by Austin Bierbower. The is certainly one of the most readable of our exchanges, and we should be glad to welcome it oftener than four times a year.

The leading article in the for July is a paper on "Public Indecency," by Solon D. Wilson. M. W. Hopkins contributes an article on "Withdrawal of Plea of Guilty." The "General Notes" and "Humors of Criminal Law" are unusually full and interesting, and we are pleased to see that the editor of our esteemed contemporary has drawn largely on the columns of the "Green Bag," which shows that he appreciates good things when he sees them.

have received an interesting paper on "The Citizen in Relation to the State," which was read before the American Bar Association by the author, Alexander Porter Morse, Esq., of Washington.

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