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Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, Thos. Tileston Baldwin, 1038 Exchange Building, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of teachers of the older generation who have done articles of moderate length upon subjects of in so much to make the Harvard Law School worldterest to the profession; also anything in the famous and to advance the cause of legal educa way of legal antiquities or curiosities, facetice tion. anecdotes, etc. Professor Thayer's contributions to legal liter Under ordinary circumstances we should ature and his miscellaneous writings were many think something like an apology was due to our and important; and it is a matter of regret that readers for laying before them a Green Bag his great work on Evidence remains unfinished. containing but a single article. But where, as In a recent review of his " John Marshall " we in the present instance, a subject of national in spoke of " the excellent and cultured style, the terest and importance is at hand, and when the charming modesty, the deep learning and vig author, as in Mr. Grinnell's case, brings to his orous thinking which mark all that Professor task both legal learning and rare literary skill, Thayer writes," — these were, indeed, the qual it would seem that, at most, an explanation is all ities of his work. that we are called upon to make. The fact is, NOTES. that under Mr. Grinnell's exhaustive study of Ex-Governor Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa, the courts of inquiry the subject grew and assumed such importance that it seemed impossible to new Secretary of the Treasury, practiced law for treat it adequately in an article of ordinary many years in the Iowa courts. The Secretary length; nor did it seem advisable to print the is a good story-teller and narrates this personal experience of the days when he was practicing article in instalments. The present issue, there fore, has been given over wholly to this review, at the bar. A boy about fourteen had been put on the from a legal standpoint, of the Schley court of inquiry and of the military courts; and we feel stand, and the opposing counsel was examining him. After the usual preliminary questions as confident both that the article will prove in to the witness's age, residence and the like, he teresting and instructive to the readers of The then proceeded : Green Bag, and that it will be recognized as a "Have you any occupation?" valuable contribution to legal literature. "No." By the death of Professor James Bradley "No." Don't you do any work of any kind?" Thayer, of the Harvard Law School, the Ameri can Bar loses one of its most distinguished "Just That's What Nothin' loaf does about much." around your all."father home?do "?" members. Born in 1831, Professor Thayer graduated from Harvard in 1852, and from the Law School four years later. The same year "Doesn't he do anything to support the he was admitted to the bar, and continued in active practice in Boston until his appointment, family?" "He does odd jobs once in a while when he in 1873. to the Royall Professorship of Law in the Harvard Law School. Ten years later can get them." "As a matter of fact, isn't your father a he was appointed to the professorship which has been known, since 1893, as the Weld Pro pretty worthless fellow, a deadbeat and a fessorship. His death makes the first break, if loafer?" "I don't know, sir; you'd better ask him. we except the retirement of Professor Langdell from active work, in the remarkable group of He's sitting over there on the jury."