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The Legal World ton May 27. Judge Donworth was at one time attorney for the Stone & Webster syndicate and had represented other large interests. Judge Donworth was banqueted by the Pierce County Bar Association May 19, at which he was jovially introduced by Judge J. A. Shackleford as "the only federal judge of the state of Washington who has never been reversed." Prof. Roscoe Pound of the Northwestern University Law School, formerly dean of the University of Nebraska Law School, will join the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School next October. As its editor-in-chief, he has made the Illinois Law Review one of the ablest law journals in the country. Prof. Pound is a man of wide learning and keen intellect who has devoted painstaking attention to fundamental prob lems of political and legal science and has made a special study of the reform of procedure, and is one of the best informed men on that subject in the United States. He was organizer of the National Conference on Criminal Law and Criminology which just met in Chicago to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Northwestern University Law School. The University of Chicago is to be congratulated on its good fortune in securing the services of so gifted a scholar.

Bar Associations Congressman S. W. McCall of Massachusetts will deliver the annual address before the Ohio State Bar Association July 7. Dr. James Parker Hall, the English jurist, was one of the principal guests at the large banquet of the San Francisco Bar Association May 20. The Rhode Island Bar Association held its annual summer outing at the Pomham Club on the afternoon of June 5, when they en joyed a luncheon and clambake. The New Jersey Bar Association held it eleventh annual meeting in Atlantic City June 11 and 12, the principal address being delivered by Associate Justice David J. Brewer of the United States Supreme Court. The Berkshire Bar Association held its annual meeting and dinner at Pittsfield, Mass., May 17. Former Attorney-General Herbert Parker and District Attorney Taft of Springfield were the speakers. Charles E. Burke of Pittsfield was elected president. Ernest W. Hardy at a meeting of the Multnomah County Bar Association held May 25 at Portland, Oregon, spoke on "The

Necessity of Judicial Construction of the Laws Passed by the Legislature," and urged the adoption of the Wisconsin plan whereby an expert assists the legislature in drafting bills. Judge Howard T. Sanford of the United States Court for the eastern district of Ten nessee read a paper on "The Establishment of the Federal Judiciary," and Clarence S. Darrow of the Chicago bar spoke on The Adherence to the Precedents in the Law at the monthly meeting of the Cincinnati Bar Association June 5. The State Bar Association of Arkansas met June 1 at Hot Springs, Ark., for its twelfth annual convention, and listened to a paper by the president, John M. Moore of Little Rock, on "The Development of the Law and Private Corporations. Cummings Ratcliffe of Little Rock read a ' paper on "Mining Law," and S. H. Mann of Forest City one on "Special Legislation." Hon. Hannis Taylor of Washington, D.C., delivered the annual address before the Georgia Bar Association, which opened its twenty-sixth annual convention at Warm Springs, Ga., June 2. One of the most important matters considered was the report of the committee on jurisprudence, law reform, and procedure. This report rec ommended the passage of an act with refer ence to the probate and execution of foreign wills, and favored in earnest terms action by the association to induce the legislature to adopt and publish a new code. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association will be held at Old Point Comfort, July 7-9. The Vir ginia State Bar Association meets at the same place at the same time. The Maryland association will consider the Torrens land system and the divorce question. Justice Henry B. Brown, retired, of the United States Supreme Court, will speak on the latter topic, and Herbert Noble will make an address on the trust problem. Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, lately Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, is also on the list of speakers.

Louisana fQar Meeting The annual meeting of the Louisiana Bar Association, held at Alexandria, La., May 28-29, was the largest and most successful in its history. In the attendance were to be found the Governor, four Justices of the Supreme Court, and other prominent officials, including the full membership of two com missions on the revision of the Civil and Criminal Codes. Interest centred chiefly