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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, facetio}, anecdotes, etc.

DEAN MELVILLE M. BIGELOW, whose "por trait is our frontispiece and whose essay on the teaching of law is a feature of this issue, may be claimed as the product of all parts of our country as well as of England. He was born and educated in Michigan, graduating from the University of Michigan in 1866, and began practise in Memphis, where his first essays as a text writer were made. He has received the degree of Ph.D. from Harvard, and of LL.D. from Northwestern University. Though he has long served as non-resident lecturer at the Law School of the University of Michigan and has lectured at other schools, it is with the School of Law of Boston University that he has been most closely identified. He was a member of the faculty from its founda tion and in 1902 was made its Dean. As the author of works of authority on estoppel, torts, bills and notes, wills, and the history of procedure, he is even better known to the profes sion. Some of these were written during his residence in England, where he enjoyed the ac quaintance of the leading scholars and jurists of the time, and he relates that it was a phrase of Lord Bowen's in a conversation shortly after the famous decision of Mogul Steamship Co. v. McGregor, that "the law should follow business" that inspired the doctrines embodied in our leading article. His long experience as a teacher and his acknowledged rank as a scholar will make his leadership especially welcome to those who are disposed to criti cise as too academic the methods of instruc tion favored in some of our most famous schools of law. It is always difficult to secure contributions from lawyers in active practise, but we are fortunate in presenting in this issue an article of especial interest to all counsel for public

service companies by Mr. Bentley W. War ren of Boston. Mr. Warren's interest in the broader questions of state policy has been shown by his work on the Massachusetts Civil Service Commis sion and his intimate professional connection with the recent great street railway develop BENTLBV W. WAHRFN ment of Massachusetts entitles him to speak with authority. The growth of suburban electric lines is now press ing for solution in other parts of the • country the problems that have already been dealt with in the more thickly settled sections of New England, and the conclusions drawn from local experience have therefore an application that should give them the widest interest. Professor Wyman, who contributes to this number, is already well known to readers of the GREEN BAG by his articles on the prob lems presented by the combinations of labor and of capital. Upon this general subject of the law governing the Industrial System, he has given several courses of lectures in recent years both in the Summer Quarter BkUCH WYMAN of the new Law School of the University of Chicago, and for the department of Economics of Harvard Uni versity. His course in the Harvard Law> School on Public Service Corporations is closely connected with this line of work. Upon both of these related subjects he has edited books of selected cases.