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 Our Contributors. HON. EMORY SPEER was born in Culloden, Georgia, in 1848, and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1869. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. He has served as SolicitorGeneral of Georgia and as United States District Attorney and was twice elected to Congress. Since 1885 he has been United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia. The address on Lord Erskine was delivered by him at the banquet of the Ameri can Bar Association at Seattle last August. HON. CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD was born in Lebanon, Maine, in 1851. He practiced in Rockland from 1876, also serving in the Maine Legislature and as Attorney-General of the State. Since 1899 he has attained national prominence as a member of Congress. He recently declined re-election and has entered upon practice in New York City with his son under the firm name of Littlefield & Littlefield. The paper which we publish in this number was delivered before the Illinois State Bar Association last summer. JOHN KING, K. C., is senior member of the firm of King & Sin clair in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of King on Defamation and has previously contributed to our pages. ARTHUR W. BLAKEMORE is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School in practice in Boston. He is the author of several text-books, but has not before published any studies in the law relating to Trade Unions. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts which he discusses in this number is one which will command general attention.