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 The Green Bag PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT £4.00 PER ANNUM.

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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, facetice, anecdotes, etc.

AT the end of its first year under its present editorship, THE GREEN BAG will be found to have continued the development begun a few years ago for the purpose of broadening its scope and influence. We trust that the nu merous variations in the arrangement and material in our pages have proved our inten tion to spare no pains to improve the maga zine, and that the result has been to produce something which shall be not only of interest but indispensable to a careful practitioner. As a result of these experiments, we are ready now to outline a definite policy for the future. While it is our purpose to adopt all new de velopments in legal periodical literature most likely to improve our pages, in general in the future the magazine will appear in its present form. Our leading articles will cover a wide range of topics including not only the discussion of purely technical problems of law, the broader questions of jurisprudence, and the more pressing ones of reforms in the judicial system, but also a due proportion of the so-called lighter articles, including biographical sketches of eminent lawyers and jurists, articles suggested by important recent books of interest to the profession, accounts of trials of national interest, and essays upon that borderland between law and literature which afford a fertile field, as yet but little developed, for the lawyer of aspira tions to authorship. It will be our aim to select our articles so far as we may, with ref erence to topics of current interest, though we shall not neglect the historical or antiquarian fields. We are promised for the early num bers of next year, articles upon all of these lines by men not only familiar with their subjects but capable of expressing themselves in an interesting way. We also hope to de

vote an early issue to one of the crying evils of modern practice and a discussion by ex perts of the remedies that have been proposed, similar to the number devoted to the Law's Delays which we published last May. The editorial department of the magazine is, however, that in which most changes have recently been made, and it is this work which we hope will make THE GREEN BAG an impor tant as well as interesting part of the lawyer's equipment. The reviews of current legal articles, as in their present form, will contain alphabetically arranged under the topics dis cussed, not only summaries of the most im portant contributions to our contemporaries, but the titles of and references to all other leading articles in legal periodicals of the pre ceding month and received before going to press. Any selection of such articles must necessarily be colored by the personality of the reviewer and articles of interest to some would inevitably be overlooked, but with a complete classified index any lawyer will be able to find the recent discussions ot a subject in which at the time he is especially interested. The department of notes of recent cases we are convinced should be in the hands of every lawyer. The original selection of cases will be made and the summaries written by the expe rienced editors of the National Reporter System, who are obliged in their daily work to exam ine every decision published in the United States. Their selection seems more likely to include the most important cases of the month than any that can be devised. These sum maries will then be submitted in galley proofs to a corps of eminent specialists, both teach ers and practitioners, who •will briefly note their views of the value and importance of cases in their special subjects with especial reference to the settlement of conflicting authorities, the establishment of old doctrines in new jurisdictions, and the recent tendencies of the law. Realizing that while decisions of the courts of the United States are of most