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PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT $4.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE NUMBERS 50 CENTS. Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, THOS. TILESTON BALDWIN, 53 State Street, Boston, Mass. I

The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosi ties, facetiœ, anecdotes, etc.

With this number, which brings the six teenth volume to a close, the present editor retires from the editorial management of THE GREEN BAG. His editorial duties dur ing the past four years have been made es pecially pleasant by the cordial co-operation of contributors, old and new, in the attempt to make THE GREEN BAG, in fact, as well as in name, a ''magazine covering the higher and the lighter literature pertaining to the law." Beginning with the January issue, the editorial direction of this not uninterest ing experiment will be in the hands of the new editor, Sydney R. Wrightington, a graduate of the Harvard Law School and a member of the Boston Bar,—a gentleman eminently fitted for this work by legal and literary instincts and training. NOTES.

THE United States bankruptcy law had just gone into effect, and they were waiting for the newly-appointed referee to open the hearing. "What shall we call him?" asked one at torney of his neighbor. "He isn't a judge, you know, and I don't exactly like to ad dress him as 'Your Honor.'" "Well, T don't know," was the reply. "How would 'Your Reference' do?" THE defendant's attorney came hurrying in a few minutes late, and found the court waiting for him. As soon as he got his breath, he said: "Your Honor, on the way from my office just now, a brother attorney asked me

where i was going in such a hurry, and upon my saying that I was going to finish an argument before the chief justice, he said: 'The chief justice is a very patient man.' I took it, then, as a compliment to your Honor, but I am now in doubt as to whether it was that or merely a reflection upon me." MULCAHY was standing on the courthouse steps, and a friend remarked that he looked tired. "That I am," he replied. "I was on a jury and we was eleven to one and was out from three o'clock yesterday afternoon till nine o'clock this morning." "And who," said his friend, "was the pig headed son-of-a-gun that kept eleven gen tlemen out all night that way?" "That was me." HE was fresh from the law school and had been told to have a certain criminal case continued. When the case was c.illed, he arose and said, rather timidly: "Your Honor, I move for a continuance in this case.'' "I can't hear you, sir,'' said the judge. "Your Honor, I move for a" he be gan in a much louder tone. "I can't hear you, sir," from the bench cut him short. "Your Honor, I move"—— he started once more, embarrassed, but determined, and in a voice that he felt must reach any judge, however deaf, and which could cer tainly be heard out on the street. At this point, however, he felt a pull at his coat-tail, and heard the voice of some good Samari tan behind him saying in a loud whisper: "Sit down, you darned fool. He means you should go to the district attorney for continuance. Why don't you read the rules?"