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December loth, 1845. His grandfather was the famous Chief Baron Pollock, and his uncle was the "Last of the Barons." He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge; became a fellow of Trinity in 1868: read for the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, and received his call in 1871. In 1873, he mar ried at Calcutta, Miss Georgina Deffell, and succeeded to the baronetcy, which was creat ed in 1866, as third baronet, upon the death of his father in 1888. He was professor of Jurisprudence at University College, Lon don, in 1882 and 1883; professor of Common Law in the Inns of Court from 1884 to 1890; Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Ox ford from 1883 to 1903; member of the Royal Labor Commission from 1891 to 1894; corresponding secretary of the Insti tute of France from 1894, and for some time was honorary librarian of the Alpine Club. He is a member of the Juridical Society of Berlin, and has received doctors' degrees from Harvard, Oxford, Edinburgh and Dublin. In 1876 he published his first book: —the Principles of Contract, which was followed in 1877 by his Digest of the Law of Partnership and his Leading Cases done into English verse; in 1880, by his Life and Philosophy of Spinoza; in 1882, by his Land Laws; in 1887, by his Law of Torts; in 1888, by his Possession in the Common Law, in collaboration with Mr. Justice Wright; in 1890, by his Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics; in 1892, by his chap ter in Badminton, on The Early History of Mountaineering; in 1894, by his Law of Fraud in British India; in 1895, by his His tory of English Law, in collaboration with Professor F. W. Maitlancl; in 1896, by, .his First Book of Jurisprudence; in 1899, by The Etchingham Letters, in collaboration with Mr. E. Fuller Maitland; and he has been editor of the Law Reports since 1895. In addition to all this work, he has delivered lectures in India and more than once in the United States. For many years he has

been a member of the Rabelais Club,—that congregation of actors, artists and literary men,—and a frequent contributor to its Pro ceedings. With all this, he has ever kept an active interest in sports and has been an en thusiastic climber of mountains. He is still one of the best amateur swordsmen in Eng land, and an authority upon the forms and history of the sword. I have purposely made the above cata logue of Sir Frederick's achievements and activities unadorned with any comment and unalleviated by any extraneous matter, in order that their extent may be brought home to the reader. Like Homer's list of the Hellenic host before Troy, it is dry, bald and appalling. It presents a really remark able record, a marvellous amount of work. When you consider it, it seems impossible of achievement by any one man. Of course, not even a genius could combine talents of the first flight in law, philosophy and litera ture. But that one man should have been able to make so many and such acceptable contributions to the two former subjects is surely sufficient achievement, and is an ad mirable life's work. It may be thought by some unfortunate that Sir Frederick has not confined himself to his specialty. If he had. who can say that he would not have ranked in the same class with Sir Henry Maine? But, if he had, the world would have been without some entertaining books. The Etchingham Letters is, I venture to think, one of the bits of fiction of the last decade worthy of perusal. I shall not undertake here to review his publications upon Jurisprudence. Most law yers, who care for the science of their pro fession, have read them. But in regard to them I wish to point out that the man who wrote them had made a study not only of the Roman and the Civil law, not only of the English philosophers, like Hobbes, but was conversant with the continental schools of philosophic thought. And that brings me