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changed offices for a few months with Sir Reginald Hancock, the Chief Justice of Gibraltar. He has sat as a Commissioner of Assize, and it was regarded as an open secret that Lord Chancellor Henschell would have raised him to the Bench of the High Court if a suitable opportunity of doing so had occurred. Among the other notabilities of the County Court Bench may be mentioned the late judge Stephen, author of Stephen's Commentaries, a work reputed to yield an income (seldom to be derived from a law

treatise) of about £600 a year! Judge Ellicott of Gloucester, son of the late Bishop Ellicott — an appointment which provoked very adverse criticism upon Lord Halsbury, as Mr. Ellicott had no practice or profes sional experience worthy of the name, but which has turned out well; Judge Selfe, a quondam secretary to Lord Chancellor Cairns; ex-Judge Brynmor Jones, ap pointed to a Welsh circuit when he was only about thirty-eight years of age; and Judge Emden, some time a Registrar in Bankruptcy. Lex.