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field &i Williams, who probably enjoy the greatest whom he might detect in the act of making draw solicitor's business in Great Britain. They boast, ings. The ratio decidendi is rather obscure; it and not without reason, that the young counsel may have been that to Mr. Justice Denman it whom they dower with their support inevitably seemed profane for a mind devoted to his own reaches the bench; of course it is a very limited high profession to dally with the transient arts of and select class of counsel, young or old, who can i the casual limner. Whatever the judge's motives number Messrs. Freshfield & Williams as clients. may have been, he made it clear that his- resolu The Hon. George Denman, senior judge of the tion was not second to that of the Horatian hero. We are rebuilding old London as fast as ever Queen's Bench, has been figuring of late as the, justits et tenax propositi rir. Personally one of we can. A long stretch of hoary tenements is the handsomest of the English judges, he owes being dismantled in Chancery Lane, with a view much of the ease with which he bears the strain to the erection of some imposing piles. The principal fault of most of our new public buildings of age to the athletic exercises of his youth. Al though he wearied his mind at Cambridge to the is the excessive height to which they are run up; extent of becoming senior classic, he corroborated from some points of view an imposing effect is in his doughty frame by rowing in the University this way secured, but one feels that there is a limit boat, wherein, manfully striving, he attained unto to everything. The January number of the " Law Quarterly Re honor, albeit the post he held in that academic craft I cannot more precisely affirm, by reason of view " contains, as frontispiece, an admirable like my inexpertness in navigation. It was this typical ness of the editor, Sir Frederick Pollock. Our legal Englishman, then, who a few weeks ago tried the journalism is proud to own him as its head. A very most romantic case heard for several years in our large circulation is scarcely attainable by so purely tribunals, known here as " The Great Pearl Case." technical a magazine as " The Law Quarterly Re As is common on such occasions, the pen of the view; " even lawyers interested in its contents are satisfied with glancing through its pages at their ready artist was busy in transferring to paper ap proximate likenesses of witnesses and other per club. It appeals to specialists, and to specialists sonages whose features might be supposed to who are not always interested in each other's interest the public. A certain junior counsel was specialties. The expert in copyhold tenure re gards what is called the Law of Patents as a thus engaged, when of a sudden the artistic occu pation of his faculties seemed to strike the august branch of law merely by courtesy; while the prac judge as a signal impropriety; he ordered the titioner, who distinguishes with inevitable insight trembling sketcher to desist on pain of instant two apparently similar mechanisms, cannot confi dently assert what copyhold tenure is, or whether expulsion from court should he persist in his fri volity, — and the judge further intimated that he it survived the legislation of Charles II. would at once order out of court any counsel