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chequer Court of Canada by the Dominion, Government in 1888. He is a graduate (LL.B.) of Dalhousie University, Halifax, and (D.C.L.) of Toronto University. Mr. Morse is a law examiner in the latter institution. He is an associate editor of the Canada Law Journal, and has been a frequent contributor in prose and verse to THE GREEN BAGand other legal periodicals. In conjunction with Charles H. Masters, K.C., he founded the Canadian Annual Digest in 1896, of which he is still one of the editors.

in this field which we are permitted to pass upon. Mr. Bushrod C. Washington, who is a descendant of John Augustine, a brother of Gen. George Washington, was born near Charles Town, Virginia, in 1839, and received an academic education at St. Timothy's Hall, Maryland. Upon the secession of Virginia he entered the Confederate army, serving under Jackson in the "Stonewall" brigade. He was wounded and captured at the battle of Kernstown, and detained five months as a prisoner in Fort Delaware. Being exchanged, he was transferred to the cavalry service under Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, was promoted to a lieutenancy for gallant services in the battles of "The Wilderness," was again wounded, captured, escaped, was wounded again and disabled till the close of the war. After the war he resumed for a time the cultivation of his farm. He is the author of a biographical sketch of "The Late Justice Bushrod Washington"; "Mt. Vernon, the American Mecca"; "Was Washington Author of his Farewell Address?" etc.

EVEN a law magazine is entitled to indulge in fiction in midsummer though the narrative of Florida practice which we publish is, we are told, a true story. We suspect, more over, that the author could identify his hero. If the strict ness of any of our brothers beclouds his sense of humor and he is disposed to criti cise the ethics of the IN pursuance of our policy of publishing alleged Mr. Brown, be legal expositions of trials of national impor it known that the tance we offer in this issue an account of the author, though first and most impor trained at the Bar and tant of the Oregon a former practitioner, Land Frauds cases. HBNRT BURNHAM BOONK has, like so many Though the disgrace other lawyers of literary talent, deserted the of United States Sena field that even Lord Bramwell found three- tors is almost ceas quarters dry, for the more joyful land of ing to be surprising, romance. there is an element Mr. Boone is a graduate of Williams College of interest in the and of the Law School of the University of magnitude of the al Virginia. His early practice was in Florida leged land frauds and and Charlottesville, Virginia, where he now the importance to the makes his home. The success of his stories great states of the WALLACE McCAMAHT of Virginia life has led him to take up a tem West of wiping out porary residence in Italy, and to devote his these outrages. entire time to literature. We are promised, Mr. McCamant is a native of Pennsylvania however, some studies of modern Italian and is a graduate of LaFayette College. After theories of jurisprudence. reading law in the office of J. Hay Brown, now justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, he THAT there are veins of undeveloped humor moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1890, where he in the statutes and reports is disclosed now and has since engaged in practice. Since 1894, then by such merry stories as Mr. Washington he has been one of the masters in chancery of has written for us. We were glad to find the the United States Circuit Court for the dis light of originality in one of the many attempts trict of Oregon.