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 Rditorial Department. verify the claim. In reply to the notice No. i letter came and as usual the affidavit was a sight. Davidson had signed where the justice should have signed and the justice where David son should have signed. The affidavit was sent back to Davidson, who returned it with letter No. 2. There had been considerable delay in winding up the estate, and a short time ago letter No. 3 was received. NO. i. Dear Sir: Your mandate re the gallant hero who has assigned duly to hand. Presume that he can go preaching now as his knowledge of commer cial failure will make him an adept as gentleman of the long cloth. I appoint yourself as a fit person to personate me. Seriously speaking, will there be anything left after the piper is paid — I mean the lawyer — Any dividend? Kindly don't smother if this question is entirely unreasonable — but truly I would like to get enough to buy me a jack knife or a cork screw. Kindly report Yours truly, C. DAVIDSON. NO. 2. Gentlemen : I now return to you the paper — adjusted, remodelled and complete. I hope that at meeting of creditors Mr. Bowline will get a favor able send off. Am quite willing to give him a chance. I offered him three months longer before assigning, but some miserable starving creditor musthave pressed the life out of Mr. Bowline, and who ever it is I hope you will squeeze him at your Congress on fourteenth and knock him out. I knew quite well that Mr. Bowline was doing what best he could and time was all the perquisites needed by him. Hope you will have a peaceable meeting and not cold water for toasting, and please drink towards the prosperity of Ben Bowline, the King next; and fill up your Bowls towards the health of the disciples of Blackstone (Messrs. Ross & Ross) not forgetting our absent brethren, of whom I am one. Yours sincerely, C. DAVIDSON. NO. 3. Greeting : 1 desire to learn what is the result of meeting of creditors re B. Bowline. This day is the date you met fot the last time, I hope, and trust the proverbial expression shall not be verified: — " the mountains have labored " etc. Have you sold him out or sent him into exile? Please reply. Yours truly, C. DAVIDSON.

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THE John Marshalf Day addresses which have been printed in book or pamphlet form make an interesting collection of Marshalliana. On our table are several of these publications in addi tion to those to which we have called attention earlier in the year. The Boston and Cam bridge addresses have appeared in a limited edition, edited by Marquis F. Dickinson. The addresses in this volume are those by Chief Justice Holmes, Attorney-General Knowlton, Professors James Bradley Thayer and Henry St. George Tucker, and the Honorable Richard Olney. In addition to reproductions of the Inman and St. Mémin portraits of Marshall — the latter in color — the volume contains excel lent portraits of the orators above named and of Professor John C. Gray, president of the Bar Association of the City of Boston. Especially attractive in get-up is the volume containing the Proceedings of the Chicago Bar on Februar)- 4. These include the proceed ings in the United States, State and County Courts at the Centennial exercises and at the banquet. The principal addresses are those by Senators Lodge of Massachusetts and Lindsay of Kentucky, Judge Grosscup, of the United States Circuit Court, and the Honorable James M. Beck, Assistant Solicitor General of the United States. The frontispiece is the head of Marshall, after the Inman portrait. Senator Lindsay's address referred to above is printed also in the recently issued report of the Proceedings of the Illinois State Bar Associ ation at its twenty-fifth annual meeting. The printed report of the Marshall celebration in Philadelphia contains the proceedings before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the address before the bench, bar and lawstudents by Mr. Justice James T. Mitchell, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Inman portrait is the frontispiece to this volume. The address delivered by Professor John Bassett Moore, of Columbia, at Wilmington, Delaware, which appeared originally in the Political Science Monthly, has been reprinted in pamphlet form. From the West we have a pamphlet containing the address delivered at Boise, Idaho, before the Bar Association of the State, by the Honorable James E. Babb.