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 THE GREEN BAG what he considered right he held to with an unyielding grasp. He was the most popular man in his pro fession, this feeling of friendship and re spect was not confined to the seniors who knew him best and longest, but was widely diffused among the younger members of the Bar and the students, to whom he was uniformly kind and encouraging, and who looked up to him as a model worthy of their sincerest imitation, realizing that in his person he worthily sustained the best traditions of the profession. Many were the expressions of regret and sorrow; many the words of praise and admiration, spoken by the judges and his confreres; and many were the tokens of regard and esteem shown by his fellowcitizens, when the news of his sudden death became known. Sir John Boyd — the Chancellor of On tario — on taking his seat on the Bench, the next day, at the Toronto Assizes said: "Since we last met, the profession, of which both judges and Bar form a part, has sustained a lasting loss in the very sudden death of Christopher Robinson — that great counsel, whose face was so familiar. I say it is a lasting loss, as I suppose every one will admit he "was at the head of the Bar, an eminent advocate, a great lawyer, a good man; and people of that sort cannot be easily replaced. They are not too com mon. He was a man who did not spare himself. Although he had great parts, he never came into court with an unprepared brief. He spent himself zealously in the in terests of his clients, but always within such limits as he thought to be right. He would never violate the dictates of con science. He would never condescend to do a mean thing, or to gain an unfair advan tage. His fighting was of the honorable

kind, which it is the pride of the English Bar to exemplify in its best methods. He was one of that class. We shall deplore his loss, but we shall think of him with pleasant recollections as one we can be proud of, and as one whom we can exhort our students to follow in the high course he took in his professional career." Chief Justice Falconbridge when opening his court at Osgoode Hall, said, "It has not been the practise of our courts for the pre siding judge to say anything in the case of other distinguished members of the Bar who have passed away without occupying any official or judicial position, but the place occupied by the late Mr. Christopher Rob inson was so exceptional and unique that I feel — occupying as I do the seat on this Bench so long occupied by his illustrious father — that it is right and fitting that the departure of so noble and worthy a son should not pass without some tribute to> his memory. There is no public or private expression of mine that can adequately voice my appreciation of his high character and of the loss that we have sustained. His career will furnish every answer to those who have doubted whether it is possible to combine the positions of a great advocate with the character of a stainless Christian gentleman. He was the Chevalier Bayard of the Canadian Bar, a man sans peur et sans reproche." His Lordship, . very vis ibly affected, ended his tribute to his friend in an almost inaudible voice. "For more than forty years he was personally to me a guide, philosopher, and friend.- His death is a cruel blow privately, and an irreparable public calamity." In each of these courts the senior counsel present most feelingly joined with the judges in paying tribute to the memory of their departed friend, brother, leader. KINGSTON, ONT., December, 1905.