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quarters. The law of the land is here alto gether out of sympathy with the popular notion of what law ought to be. The tenant has paid for the fixtures; he considers them his own; and yet he finds it is not lawful for him to do what he will with them. There arises from all these conflicts be tween popular and statute law a vague dis trust of the latter, which is not without its good results, inasmuch as it discourages too frequent lawsuits. " The law," wrote Charles Macklin, " is a sort of hocus-pocus saence, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer

pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it." The above view has probably more followers than that of Hooker, who declared that " of law there can be no less acknowl edged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power." Perhaps, however, Macklin and Hooper speak of different kinds of law. — London Globe.