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THE FOUR COURTS FROM THF, LIFFEY.

THE HALL OF FOUR COURTS.

BY DENNIS W. DOUTHWAITE. II.

••—* Four Courts building since it was built to the courts themselves. The man-aboutin the beginning of the century. The front town no longer comes there to give and re of gray stone remains untouched. Various ceive a budget of news. The changing tide law offices have been built out, at the back, of fashion has ebbed south of the river, and as increase of business and more intricate has left the pile on Inns Quay stranded in systems demanded. A Land Commission the midst of a neighborhood largely given Court — the outcome of recent legislation — over to the great unwashed. The Dublin has been founded, and the solicitors have flaneur as seldom crosses the Liffey at this found a home within the huge quadrangle point as his London brother crosses the These new courts and communities have Thames; he is a great stay-at-home, and not made the building spread its wings a little; given to wandering among strange peoples. but the middle part, containing the dome, The Hall of Four Courts is now the market the Hall, and the courts, remains intact. place of the litigant, — the ayopa wherein the Inside, however, the change has been solicitor engages his forensic laborer, and marked enough, and the Hall has become the junior stands all the day idle because
 * ITTLE change has been made in the merely an antechamber and consulting-room