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 THE LONDON COURTS Great commercial centers have larger bars and more business than rural localities, but still no bar in America is a national one like London's. One cannot escape the impression that liti-

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to be in the tight little island with, its dense population and well-settled rights, a com plete absence of those far-reaching litiga tions involving enormous sums and the conflicting questions concerning a whole

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gation in England deals with minor matters as compared with that of America. There are no American statistics for comparison with the admirable judicial statistics of England. But in listening to the daily routine of the London courts there seems

continent, with railroads and rivers trav ersing thousands of miles and ramifications of trade extending into many states, each with its separate sovereignty. The English bar is small and the business very concentrated, but no statistics are