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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 interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities, facetiae, and anecdotes.

movement have been equally shy of disclosing their names so that future monuments to We have grown familiar with the once their memory may have to be anonymous. derided theory that the climax of artistic^ It is an interesting evidence of the great moral development is a union for greater perfection awakening that this altruistic association should of the various plastic, dramatic and musical spring into being at the very time that the arts. Must it not be equally true that the committee of the American Bar Association is perfection of professional development will drafting its code of ethics. result from a closer union in spirit and puq>ose for the great professions? Even now, indi AMERICAN LEGAL HJSTORY cations are apparent of a tendency to " com The interest of the Green Bag in perpet munity of interest " in the three great pro fessions of Law, Medicine and Journalism. uating the memory of the leaders at the Bar Thus far the clergy has not been included, has been shown from the beginning of its although sometimes a connection has been career. We are glad therefore, to welcome suspected between the shriver of the dying and the publication of a series of legal biographies the disposition of his estate. Perhaps we may written and edited by competent critics. some day see the realization of this alliance We have already reviewed a collection in bookof all learning, in the pursuit of its common form of essays on Anglo-American Legal object, the good of humanity. For the present History which with this new series on " Great we can only hail with joy the preliminary American Lawyers " edited by William Draper movements in this march of progress. The Lewis, will furnish the nucleus for some most recent and marked of these comes to us future history of American Law. The sub from the foreign city of New York and jects of the biographies, the first volume of which is reviewed elsewhere, were selected as deserves the immediate attention of the pro fession.- We are told that a circular recently we are informed by the editor, not merely issued invites subscriptions to an Amputation with reference to the distinction of individual Information Bureau which issues a bulletin lawyers, but with a purpose that the articles as a whole should give as complete a history three times a week covering cases on Ampu tation Information " from which any good live as possible of the legal profession in America attorney can get 25 to 50 cases with a value in and of the development of our legal institutions. each caseof $5000 to $25,000, and as these cases A NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY are taken on the basis of 50 per cent, the income an attorney can secure from this information The 75th anniversary of the founding of the is far greater than the salary of the President first law school west of the Alleghanies will be of the United States. This information costs celebrated on June sth by the Cincinnati Law you only $5.00 a month." School. Elaborate preparations have been It should be noted' that these valuable made for a celebration of national importance circulars have not been scattered broadcast under the auspices of the Alumni of the school but are the privilege of a select list of New York and the bar of Hamilton County. There barristers. The recipients seem somewhat will be a meeting in the Scottish Rite Cathedral modest about mentioning their distinction but and a dinner in the evening, at which some of copies of the circular have been allowed to the most eminent lawyers in the country will become public. The individuals behind -the be heard. MODERN METHODS