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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.

FOR its midsummer number THE GREEN BAG offers to its readers an issue devoted mainly to the lighter side of the law, the side upon which it built its early reputation. To those of its readers who have feared from the more serious tone of some of its recent articles that its unique characteristics were to be abandoned, we hope this number will be evidence of our purpose to continue to offer from time to time a due pro portion of matter which may afford recreation to the legal mind. If the reader scans these pages under condition of temperature and humidity like those which enveloped its prepa ration, he will feel that the lighter and briefer, the better. OF the lawyers whose fame we have recently celebrated, all have been conspicuous for their work in litigation and for their participation in public affairs. Mr. Cowen is an excel lent representative of that other depart ment of modern practice which guards and controls the ac cumulated wealth of corporations. It is pleasant in these days of shocking disclos ures of infidelity to their clients and their profession of some of HON. JUDSON HARMON those who have been regarded as good ex amples of this type of lawyer, to recall the career of one who bore even greater re sponsibilities with unselfish sagacity. The memorial address before the Maryland State Bar Association which we print was

delivered by a lawyer who has also been recently in the public eye in a manner highly creditable to himself and to the Bar. Mr. Harmon was born in Ohio in 1846, gradu ated from Denison University in 1866, and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1869. From 1876 to 1887 he served as judge, first of the Common Pleas Court and later of the Superior Court of Cincinnati. Since his resig nation from the Bench he has continued in active practice, interrupted only by his accep tance of the office of Attorney General of the United States under President Cleveland. He has shown his interest in the learning of the law by his work as a member of the faculty of the Cincinnati Law School. His appointment by the President as one of the special attorneys to investigate the alleged giving of rebates by the Santa Fe railroad, was hailed with satis faction as proof of a determination to deal fearlessly and fairly with a distressing situation. His report in favor of action against the officers of the road, however, was rejected by the Ad ministration, apparently to the regret of all impartial citizens. AGREEABLE essays into the border land of law, literature, and philosophy, are hard to extract from a busy profession though the talent, we are sure, and the in clination, we trust, still survive the breathless pursuit of wealth. We were glad therefore to ob tain the result of CHARLES MORSB Mr. Morse's medita tions upon a portion of the philosophy of the law. Mr. Charles Morse, D.C.L., was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1885, and appointed Deputy-Registrar and Reporter of the EX-