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 The Green Bag 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, S. R. WRIGHTINGTON, 31 State Street, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of in terest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosities, facetiae, anecdotes, etc.

ALTHOUGH much has been written regarding the work of Governor Folk of Missouri, we be lieve it has remained for Mr. Bellairs to pub lish in this number the first study of his career from a legal point of view. Mr. Bellairs was born in 1870 and is one of the many who have applied the results of their study of the law in the pursuit of other occupations. Though a law student he has never stood for the bar and has been a journalist for many years, for most of the time connected with the St. Louis Chron icle. During the war with Spain he was in Cuba as correspondent for the Scripps-McRae league, an association which controls many of the leading journals of this country. His spe cial work for the Chronicle has been reporting the court news. In that capacity he reported all Grand Jury investigations and the trials of the boodlers and came in close personal con tact with the subject of his article. TRAVIS HARVARD WHITNEY is another ex ample of the man trained in the law who has found his vocation in another field. Mr. Whitney was born in 1875 in Kansas and gradu ated from Harvard College in 1900 and Harvard Law School in 1903. Even be fore his graduation he had rendered ser vice to the cause of municipal reform TRAVIS HABVAKD WHITNEY

under the directions of the Citizens' Union of New York City, and in July, 1903, was appointed assistant secretary of that organ ization. In that office he served in the last Low campaign and since then has been especial! y assigned to the legislative work which he so graphically describes.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS VANCE, who writes in this number regard ing "Federal Control of Insurance Corpor ations," is a native of Kentucky and was educated at private schools in Shelbyville and at Washington and Lee University, where he received the degrees of Ph. D. in 1895 and LL. B. in 1897. After practis ing for a short time WILLIAM REYNOLDS VANCE at Louisville, he ac cepted a professorship in the department of law in Washington and Lee University and in 1902 became its dean. In 1903 he was elected professor of law at Columbian University (now George Washington University), Washington, D. C. He has made an especial study of the law of insurance, is a member of the com mittee on insurance of the American Bar Asso ciation, and the author of an authoritative text book which has recently been published on that subject. AMIDST the hurry of modern practice it is pleasant to find that the zeal of patient schol arship is not lacking in the law, and that the material for proper comparative study of the broader phases of jurisprudence is being gath ered by investigators of ancient law. While