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spices of Albert Mathews — now retired and indulging in literary pursuits as fatherin-law of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt — James C. Carter, and the late Edmund Ran dolph Robinson — was chartered in the following April, since which time it has been a great power. It has impeached bad judges, has beaten at the polls disfavored candidates for the Bench, and has kept for a quarter-centuryjudicious ward over the best legal interests of the community and inter

ests of their outside comradeship of the Bar. It has watched mischiefs in procedures cap able of being cured by remedial statutes, and has prepared and influenced their pas sage. Moreover, it has been free from cliques or selfish endeavors; and now is about to usher in the new century, stronger, more popular, and more influential than heretofore. At the supper, which closed the reception, all heartily drank to the long life of the New York Bar Association.

CONTRASTS IN COURT. By Wendell P. Stafford. ' I "HIS advocate, in confidence so weak He scarce can muster breath enough to speak, And gets each sentence by a painful wrench, Wears in his hat more wit than half the Bench. This other, self-assertive, shallow, loud, Would still harangue his judges like a crowd, Though Cicero himself were seated there In full robed splendor in his ivory chair.