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NEW LAW BOOKS. name the subject," said Warren, "as my wife has already sent an excuse to Lady Lynd- // is the intention of The Green Bag to have its hurst." "Nonsense," said Davison, "I shall book reviews written by competent reviewers. be able to confirm her statement of your The usual custom of magazines is to confine inability to attend." "You will oblige me book notices to books sent in for review. At the request of subscribers, however, The by saying nothing about it. Your state Green Bag will be glad to review or notice ment might clash with the excuse my wife any recently published law book, whether re has given, and I am not aware of what she ceivedfor review or not. wrote." But, finding that Davison was ob durate, and apparently determined to convey JOHN MARSHALL. LIFE, CHARACTER AND JUDI Warren's sense of disappointment to Lord CIAL SERVICES AS PORTRAYED IN THE CENTEN and Lady Lynclhurst, Warren at last con ARY AND MEMORIAL ADDRESS AND PROCEED fessed that he was only joking, and had re INGS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES ON MARSHALL DAY, 1901, AND IN THE CLASSIC ceived no invitation to dine at his lordship's. ORATIONS OF BINNEY, STORY, PHELPS, WAITE "Neither have I," replied Davison; "I was AND RAWLE. Compiled and edited with an only joking, too!" It was one of poor War Introduction by John F. Dillon. Illus ren's failings, the continual boasting of his trated with Portraits and Fac-Simile. intimacy with members of the Bench and the Three Volumes. Chicago: Callaghan peerage. It was to him that the cutting and Company. 1903. Cloth, (lviii+528; remark was addressed, when, happening to say that he had been dining at the Duke of Leeds' and had been much surprised at No more welcome volumes have come re finding no fish of any kind1 was served, cently from the press than these edited by he was told that that was easily explained, Judge Dillon and containing about fifty of as, "no doubt, they had eaten it all upstairs!" the Marshall Day addresses. Readers of That he was clever admits of no question, Tht Green Bag will recall that the April and and he could tell a story to perfection, as May, 1901, 'numbers of this magazine were witness this little anecdote he gives of Mr. given over to extracts, of varying length, Justice Littledale and his stickling for form. from some forty of these addresses; and at "I recollect a case," he says, "where a client that time we ventured the inquiry, "whether of mine had his declaration on a bill of ex it would be possible for the American Bar change demurred to because, instead of the Association to publish, in a suitable volume, words 'in the year of Our Lord 1834,' he the Marshall Day addresses in full. . . . had written 'A. D. 1834.' I attended the late There could be no more fitting tribute to the Mr. Justice Littledale at chambers to en memory of the Chief Justice than such a deavor to get the demurrer set aside as friv volume." This good work Judge Dillon olous, or leave to amend on payment of a has now accomplished, prefixing to the adshilling; but that punctillious, though very dreses an admirable introduction; and it is a able and learned, judge refused to do either. pleasure to add that the form in which these 'Your client, sir,' said he, 'has committed a volumes are printed is in every way excel blunder, sir, which can be set right only on lent. the usual terms, sir. "A. D.," sir, is neither The speakers on Marshall Day—the lead English nor Latin, sir. It may mean any ers of our bench, our bar and our law facul thing or nothing, sir. It is plain, sir, that ties—had a great theme; their addresses here is a material and traversable fact, and were worthy of the occasion, and in these no date to it, sir.' Whereupon he dismissed volumes where they are brought together our poor summons with costs," which he we have an adequate account of the great adds, came to between £7 and £8. In this Chief Justice and his great work. The ora way was money spent in the good old days. tions of Binney, Story, Phelps, Waite and