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the subject spirited, representing the cast well-chosen mottoes which are in fine accord ing out of evil and the raising of the fallen, with the high principles of Law and Justice. and the background shows the blaze of the In the Grand Jury room is seen "Truth is the Handmaid of Justice," Sidney Smith; sky at dawn. Mr. George W. Maynard's picture repre and again, elsewhere, "Justice Renders to sents "Justice Directing the Attention of Every Man his Due," Cicero; "Laws are the Government to the Laws to which it is the very Bulwarks of Liberty," Holland; Bound,", and the other paintings are the "Ignorance of the Law Excuses No Man," Landing of the Milfordites by Mr. Charles Selden; "Justice is the Idea of God, the Y. Turner, and in the Grand Jury room the Ideal of Man," Theodore Parker. • "Foreman of the Grand Jury Rebuking the The County of Essex has put up a lasting Chief Justice of New Jersey, 1772," by Mr. monument to Law and Justice in building P. D. Millet. This is a powerful picture the new court house, and as we look back and the subject is most interesting. over the history of the state we find the The total cost of the art work in the fact recorded that the early settlers refused building amounted to about $35,000 only, to take their land on the simple patent of sho-wing how strictly the artists kept within the governor, but bought it from the Indians, their estimates, and how honorably all showing that even 250 years ago the spirit details were carried out. of Justice was awake in New Jersey. MONTCLAIR, N. J., February, 1908. In the various rooms are placed many

OUR JUDGES HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE. They frame their great decisions With fine, judicial care, And by acute revisions All fallacies lay bare. They bind them up, imposing, In calf-bound volumes stout, And always will, supposing The calves, themselves, hold out. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., February, 1908.