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 Education for the English Bar in the Inns of Court. 2 ute account of the doings of the Benchers, relates that the looth Psalm having been sung, the seniors retired to the library, while the younger members of the Society dis ported themselves right joyfully in the Hall. Fancy a lecture in Bills and Notes on the

important requisite for success at the bar. After the three weeks of the reading were over the Reader left for the vacation, and was escorted on the way in state by all the younger members of the Society, who gave him a great supper at parting. The Reader

INTERIOR OF LINCOLN'S INN HALL. Negotiable Instruments Act followed by a Law School smoker, or a moot court meeting followed by numerous bottles, and you have the two sides of the old life of the Inns of Court. Men are much the same in all ages, and versatility has always been an

was then made a Master of the Bench, and exempted from moots. Readers of the Mid dle Temple were entitled to place their coats of arms on the panels of the Hall of their Inn, and by special grant of the sovereign were entitled to bear arms if possessing none.