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CHARLES RUSSELL, BARRISTER.1 By Bruce Wyman. IT will take at least four men to replace you," so Coleridge wrote Russell (p. 103). Indeed it is a strenuous life that this biog raphy discloses. Advocate, legislator, At torney General, Lord Chief Justice — Lord Russell of Killowen in his time played many parts. This man as we see him here is always in action. He says to a young barrister in a chair at a club : " Why don't you do some thing — anything — only do something" (p. 258). This extract will show that Russell lived life according to that idea. " ' Russell always wished to be doing something,' says one 'devil.' The following record of a week's doings which I chance to remember will illustrate how untiring he was, in work and play alike. The week in question was that of one of the Newmarket spring meet ings. On the Tuesday night he travelled, after having been in court all day, down to Newmarket; Wednesday. he spent at New market, and, immediately after the races were over started for Stowmarket, where he was advertised to speak at a political meeting at eight. After the meeting he returned from Stowmarket to London, arriving at four o'clock on Thursday morning. All Thursday he was in court, and in the afternoon again went to Newmarket, returning to London on Friday night. On Saturday morning he was again in court, and Saturday afternoon, after the courts had risen, was devoted to some difficult cases for opinion. While he was going through these, a telegram was brought into the room; he passed it to me, and I saw that the purport of it was that the funeral of some friend of his was to take place in Dub-

lin on the next day. He said, ' I think I will go,' and thereupon sent to order a sleep ing berth at Euston. He attended his friend's funeral in Dublin on the Sunday, arriving in London again early on Monday morning. All Monday he was again in court, and, on the rising of the court, started for Ely to attend a meeting in the evening at which he had promised to speak. In gaug ing the fulness of the week like this, it must be remembered that each day spent in court entailed careful preparation, and the mastery of at least one new set of facts" (p. 352). So it was from the beginning of his career to its end. It was Charles Russell, advocate, who made the highest mark. He will be longest remembered in awe as the great barrister. This man was a force. Let this instance witness this : " It is a story of the Northern Circuit. You were engaged in a case at Liverpool. It was an uphill case. The judge and jury were dead against you. The trial had lasted for two days. You had failed to shake the witnesses in the cross-examination. You made no way. The case seemed hope less. You were horribly irritable, and swore at every one. On the third day you began your speech. You spoke for nearly an hour without apparently producing much effect. Then the foreman asked a question which showed that at length you had staggered the jury. You answered the question. The judge did not like the answer and interposed. You faced the judge and stood by your guns. There was an altercation between you and the Court. It was the crisis of the case. After a hard fight you had got hold of the 1The Life of Lord Russkli. of Killowf.n. By R. Barry Obrien. New York: Longmans, Green and jury. The judge interfered to take them out of your hand. Would he succeed? That Company, 1901. (viii 405 pp.).