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LTHOUGH as yet a mere "fledgling," only ten months old, the "Green Bag" has already demonstrated that it is a lusty youngster, and has come into the world to stay and live, we trust, to a ripe old age. We should feel fully gratified in "blowing our own trumpet," were there any occasion for our so doing, but our brother journalists and kind friends have sung our praises and complimented us to such a degree that any words in our own behalf would be superfluous. For the edification of our readers we published in our August number a few of the many appreciative things said of our new venture. To these we now add some of the cheery words received from correspondents:—

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These we believe to be honest and candid expressions of opinion; and we must say that it is with a feeling of genuine pride that we gaze upon the picture thus drawn, and "see ourselves as others see us." It is not usually a pleasant thing to sit for one's photograph; but if the result could only be as satisfactory in every case as in that of the "Green Bag," there would be no necessity for the invariable injunction of the photographic artist, to "look pleasant."

Our thanks are due to Messrs. Matthews, Northrup & Co., of Buffalo, who kindly furnished the greater part of the plates used in illustrating the article on "The Buffalo Law School" in this number.

' advertisements are not always attractive, but there is a list of books among the advertising pages in the first part of this number, which is extremely interesting not only to the antiquary, but also to the most alert and American of practical lawyers. There is a quaint flavor of not exactly romance, but rather of unreality, about black-letter books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; heightened in this instance by the reproduction of one of Richard Tottell's rudely engraved but effective titlepages. Not all of us can afford to buy such luxuries, though any of us might at least possess, if he chose, one or two specimens of antique law literature; but not even the most exiguous income can prevent us from reading the list, and gloating over its glimpses into the days when the Common Law of England,