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Judge Murray E. Poole, of Ithaca, N. Y., kindly furnishes the following list of distinguished alumni of the Albany Law School : — Authors: Irving Browne, Charles T. Boone, S. F. Kneeland, George R. Donnan. Cabinet Officers : Redfield Proctor, War; William F. Vilas, Secretary of the Interior and PostmasterGeneral. Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R. : Wheelock G. Veazey. Editors: Charles E. Fitch, of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle; William H. McElroy, of the New York Tribune; T. C. Callicott of the Albany Times; St. Clair McKelway, of the Brooklyn Eagle; Irving Browne, of the Albany Law Journal; John H. Farrell, of the Albany Press. Engineer : Capt. Joseph H. Willard, U. S. A.. Financier: J. Edward Simmons, President New York Stock Exchange. Foreign Minister: Clark E. Carr, Denmark. Governors : Redfield Proctor, Vermont; Harris M. Plaisted, Maine. Judge U. S. Supreme Court : David J. Brewer. Judge Inter-State Commerce Commission : Whee lock G. Veazey. Judge U. S. Court Alabama Claims: Andrew S. Draper. Judge State Court Claims: George M. Beebe, New York. Judge Stale Court Appeals, New York : Alton B. Parker, Irving G. Vann. Judges State Supreme Courts : Wheelock G. Veazey, Vermont; Daniel A. Dickenson, Minne sota; Alton B. Parker, New York. Judge Slate Superior Court: A. V. R. Patterson, California. Judge State District Courts : N. S. Gilson, Wis consin; A. E. Paige, Indiana. Judge Court Common Pleas, N. Y. City : Miles Beach. Judge City Court, Albany : Andrew Hamilton. Judges County Courts, New York .• Zerah H. Westbrook, Montgomery; John C. Mott, Albany; How ard J. Mead, Tioga, John M. Kellogg, St. Lawrence; Henry V. Borst, Schoharie. Lawyers : Wheeler H. Peckham. Everett P. Wheeler, Esek Cowen, William S. Opdyke, George L. Stedman, George M. Bliss, William P. Prentice, James Lansing, D. Cady Herrick, Grenville A. Tremain, Edmund J. Moffett, Lewis A. Barker, Adelbert Moot, Edwin A. Bedell, Myron W. Van Anken, John V. L. Pruyn. Jr., R. H. McClellan, Charles A. Benton, Judson N. Cross. M. L Hollister, Orris U. Kellogg. James A. Dennison. Librarian : Stephen B. Griswold. Members of Congress : John H. Camp, Lewis Hanback, J. Dewitt Warner, Abraham X. Parker.

Political Leaders: Alfred Orendorf, Illinois: Stanley Plummer, Michigan; Robert J. Fisher, Jr., District of Columbia; Archie E. Baxter. Professors in Colleges: Tracy C. Becker, E. Corn ing Townsend, George A. Madill, Ziba H. Potter, G N. Potter. Public Leaders : David A. Thompson, President Nineteenth Century Club, New York City : Charles B. Hubbell, N. Y. City. Regents University, State New York : Charles E. Fitch, St Clair McKelway. Senator, U. S. : William F. Vilas, Wisconsin. Solicitor-General, U. S. : Abraham X. Parker. Slate Senators, New York : Abraham Lansing, Amasa J. Parker, Jr., Norton Chase, Charles A. Fowler, John E. Smith, Abraham X. Parker. State Secretary : Diedrich Willers, Jr. Stale Superintendent Public Instruction -. Andrew S. Draper, New York State Supreme Court Reporters, N. Y. : Abraham Lansing, Marcus T. Hun.

Owing to delay in receiving manuscript, we are obliged to defer the continuance of the Su preme Court Articles until our August number. The illustrated article on " The Golden Days of the Maryland Bar," published in this number, recalls pleasant memories of some of the greatest lawyers in our legal history. In our August number we shall publish a sketch of the late Sir John Macdonald. A full-page por trait will accompany the article.

LEGAL, ANTIQUITIES. In Madox's great history of the Exchequer, and in the pipe-rolls from which it was drawn, there are endless notices of the duel. In the reign of Stephen, for example, the escheat of a vanquished man is credited, and a person is repre sented as owing one hundred measures of wine for the concord of his brother's duel. Under Henry II. large sums are paid to the Officers of the Crown for the duel, for the fine of a duel, for recreancy, for refusal to fight, or absence from a duel. There are amercements for making a man fight two duels in one day; for being present and allowing it to be done; for not keeping the duel properly. Fines are paid in money and horses for