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THE article on Chief Justice Marshall, in the present issue and in the following number, is made up from about forty Marshall Day ad dresses, from copies furnished, with great cour tesy, by the distinguished authors. To these gentlemen THE GREEN BAG and its readers are much indebted. It is a matter of keen regret to the editor that it was not possible to print each of these addresses in full; but as such pub lication would have filled, at a rough guess, a dozen numbers of the magazine, the only course open was to make suchselect ions as,taken together, would present the career, the character, and the influence of the great man in whose honor these orations were delivered. The Marshall Day orators were chosen from among the most dis tinguished' judges, lawyers and teachers in the country : and the article to which reference has been made was conceived in the belief that what these leaders of our bench, our bar and our law faculties would say about the great Chief Jus tice would be both of interest and of value. The readinsr of these addresses has confirmed this belief; for no commemorative occasion in this country has drawn forth so many strong and eloquent discourses. О

THE many portraits of Chief Justice Marshall offer an interesting subject for an article. Pos sibly some art critic may profit by this sugges tion; but in the absence of such an article, a word or two concerning some of these portraits may not be out of place. In the frontispiece of this number our readers will recognize the Saint-Mémin portrait of Marshall, here repro duced with the background colored as in the original, which was a life-size crayon, taken in March, 1808. Charles Balthazar Julien Févret

de Saint-Mémin was born in Dijon, in 1770. His father was a counsellor of France; his mother, a beautiful and wealthy creóle of San Domingo. Between 1793 and 1810 he visited most of our Atlantic coast cities, from New York to Charleston; and such was his vogue that during that time he executed eight hundred and eighteen portraits, using a " physionotracc," an instrument invented by Chrétien, in 1786, by which the profile outline of a face could be taken with mathematical precision. The back ground of these portraits was usually, as in the present case, filled in with pink crayon. Mr. Justice Bradley in his article on the SaintMémin portrait of Marshall, (Century, vol. 16, p. 778; Sept., 1889.) relates that the charge for such a portrait was thirty-three dollars, in return for which the sitter received, first, a full-sized portrait bust; secondly, a copper plate of the same engraved in miniature, reduced from the portrait by an instrument called a " pantograph" and thirdly, twelve proofs from this plate. These miniatures were of medallion size, circular in form, and about two inches in diameter.

IN addition to the portrait noted above, Mr. Justice Bradley mentions the following which had come to his knowledge : an elaborate halflength by Rembrandt Peale, painted in 1825, presented to Chief Justice Chase by the New York Bar Association, by him bequeathed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and now hanging in the robing-room of the Court at thé Capitol, — "a fine painting but not recog nized as a good likeness by those who knew the Chief Justice"; a full length by Hubard, a French artist, taken at Richmond in 1830, and now in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., — " considered by the family a good likeness "; and a full length miniature in sitting posture by the same artist, and a replica of the same, both in possession of the Marshall family.