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The Fine Art Committee of the Boston Athe naeum having kindly accorded us permission to THE GREEN BAG. copy the famous painting of Chief-Justice Mar shall belonging to the Athenaeum, we are enabled A MOTHER year of prosperity has been vouch- to make the following attractive offer : — safed to the " Green Bag; " and we desire, To every subscriber remitting the amount of his in closing this our third volume, to extend our subscription for the "Green Bag" for 1892 be most hearty thanks to our kind friends who by fore Jan. 1, 1892, we will present a copy of this their suggestions and contributions have done so portrait, mounted upon thick paper, suitable for much to advance the interests of the magazine. framing. The size of the picture itself will be about, Starting as we do upon our fourth year with a sub io^, inches by 17 inches, and the size of paper on scription list which has more than doubled within which it is mounted about 18 inches by 25 inches. the past twelve months, we are confirmed in our This portrait will be a valuable addition to every belief that this new departure in legal literature lawyer's picture-gallery, and is in itself worth the is appreciated by the profession, and that the entire price of the subscription. bright and humorous side of the law has attractions The frontispiece of this number is a reproduc which are not lost sight of by those devoted to its tion of the painting of Marshall, and will give our sterner and more austere phase. readers an idea of what the larger portrait which We shall continue in the future as in the past to we offer them will be. endeavor to relieve the dull tedium of the routine We make this offer for two reasons : first, to legal work of our readers by still supplying a fund present our subscribers with a fitting memento of of " entertaining " and " interesting " literature. the good-will and best wishes of the publishers of Whether or not it will be found " useless," depends the " Green Bag; " second, to enable us to get upon the signification our readers attach to this our mailing-list for the coming year into shape at as word. early a date as possible. We are promised many articles for the coming year which cannot fail to be appreciated by the profession, and we can safely say that Volume IV. _ he anecdote of Jeremiah Mason published in (1892) will be more attractive than any we have our November number calls forth the following yet issued. communication from an esteemed correspondent : With best wishes to all our subscribers for a Editor of the " Green Bag" : happy and prosperous New Year, we again thank Dear Sir, — Reading in " Notes " in " Green them for their kindly aid and encouragement in Bag" for November an incident given as taking the past, and trust that these manifestations of place in the practice of Jeremiah Mason, and know their interest may be continued in the future. We ing the case in which the facts occurred, I am sure shall do our best to merit them. some mistake has been made in quoting, and take this opportunity of correcting. The facts are these. One Brown had taken from Vol. III. (1891) of the "Green Bag," hand one Bramble a bond to pay said Brown $100 a year somely bound in half morocco, now ready. Price, for life. After a while Bramble began to persuade $5.00 delivered. Brown to cancel said bond for a definite sum, but 75