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Rh in an easy but impressive manner, with very little gesture.

At the session of the Legal Education Lecture in the afternoon, papers were read by Hon. J. Randolph Tucker of Virginia, on "The Best Training for the American Bar of the Future "; by Prof. James Colby of Dartmouth College, on "The Collegiate Study of the Law "; and a paper by Prof. Emmett of Johns Hopkins University, on " Legal Education in England," was, in his absence, read for him. These papers were dis cussed in a most interesting manner by Mr. Crackanthorpe of England, a member of the English Council of Legal Education, by Sir Frank Lockwood, Attorney-General Harmon, Hon. Henry Hitchcock of St. Louis, A. G. Fox, Esq., of New York, H. G. Ingersoll, Esq., of Tennessee, George Warvelle of Chicago and Prof. Sharp of Baltimore. Hon. Edward J. Phelps of Vermont was elected Chairman of this Section, and Prof. Sharp Sec retary, for the ensuing year. At the evening session of the Association Montague Crackanthorpe, Q. C, read an inter esting paper on "The Uses of Legal History." The last afternoon session of the Legal Educa tion Section was one of special interest. Austin G. Fox, Esq., of New York, read a paper on " Two Years' Experience of Law Examiners," and Major J. W. Powell, of Washington, on the " Study of Primitive Institutions." Lord Russell took part in the discussions of these papers, and spoke in a most interesting way, concluding as follows : " I would like, before I sit down, to be allowed to express the admiration I feel, not only for the constitution of the Congress of the United States lawyers, but for the scheme of its operations and the wise purposes to which it devotes its efforts. Its work is not new to me. I have had the pleasure of seeing now for some years the record of its proceedings; and it is to me, as it was on hearing the admirable pres idential address which was delivered on Wednes day, in the highest degree refreshing to find that the profession of the law in this country is so earnestly alive to the responsibilities of its posi tion, is so keen to observe, to weigh, to judge, to discriminate, to test the current of judgment and of legislation; and that above all it keeps before itself steadfastly and unceasingly a high ideal, not merely of what ought to be the mental equipments and the acquirements in learning, but the high moral character of the profession to which they belong." The banquet Friday evening was an occasion not to be forgotten by any one present. After the feast of things to eat and drink, followed a remarkable feast of reason and flow of wit. How could it be otherwise with Mr. Chauncey Depew as toastmaster, and with speeches by Lord Russell, Sir Frank Lockwood, Hon. Bourke Cochran and Mr. Woolworth, the newly elected president?

A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered : " By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I am ignorant."

The abolition of the old technical system of pleading and the substitution of the Reformed Procedure was, as a rule, very obnoxious to older practitioners who were accustomed to the old procedure and profited by their knowledge of its in tricacies which they had bought by years of study and experience, while the new system was welcomed by the younger members of the profession, who were thus placed on equal terms with the older lawyers, or superior, as the latter were loth to take up anew the study of a new system of procedure. In North Carolina this was often exem plified by amusing occurrences. At Martin Supe rior Court in the spring of 1869 the defendant was represented by Hon. P. H. Winston and Hon. Asa Biggs (ex-U. S. Dist. Judge), two of the leaders of the Bar in the State, and the plaintiff by J. E. Moore and Walter Clark, both just admitted to the Bar. Mr. Moore was demanding to know whether the paper filed by defendants' counsel was "a demurrer or an answer." Being on new ground and not knowing what awful things might happen " under the Code " if he had filed a de murrer when it ought to be an answer, or vice versa. Judge Biggs was endeavoring to evade the ques tion, but Moore, with the flush of inexperience was insistent, demanding " a categorical answer." Mr. Winston leaned forward, and clutching his as sociate's coat-tail, said in anxious tones, but loud enough to be heard by the whole Bar, " Tell him, Biggs, it is an answer by way of a demurrer."