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 The Editor's Bag body of opinion. The whole plan is mis conceived when it is thought of as primarily a scheme to promote uniform

ity of legislation. This whole controversy has come to

assume a. ludicrous aspect since Pro fessor Wigmore branded the plan as

“untimely, unsound and futile."

For if

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A JUDGE'S VALEDICTORY READER in Atlanta, Ga., writes:

"In a not far distant number of the Green Bag I ran across a lamentation that a good poet had been spoiled to make a better judge in Logan E.

Bleckley. Thinking you might be in terested in the inclosed that I ran across

the learned jurist is right, these adjec tives must apply to the latest product of his own rare ability as an expositor of

today, I am forwarding it to you.” The inclosure consisted of the follow

law.

when he left the bench :—

The "Pocket Code of Evidence"

ing verses read by Justice Bleckley

must be “untimely, unsound and futile."

And the situation is rendered still more ridiculous when a critic bases his attack on

impressive

quotations

from

the

Chicago jurist and has little to add in the way of original ideas. Is it not curious that while one of our contemporaries claims to have received letters from all over the country com mending its hostile attitude, the Green

Bag has not received a single letter disapproving its own position? As an example of the sort of criticism that has come to our ears, we print the follow

ing letter of Charles A. Boston, Esq., of the New York bar. This letter was written to a ﬁrm of lawyers in a South ern city:— HORNBLOWER, MILLER & POTTER.

24 Broad street.

IN THE MATTER OF REST Rest for hand and brow andqbreast, For ﬁngers, heart and brain! Rest and peace! a long release From labor and from pain: Pain of doubt, fatigue, despair— Pain of darkness everywhere, And seeking after light in vain. Peace and rest! Are they the best For mortals here below?

Is soft repose from work and woes A bliss for men to know? Bliss of time is bliss of toil: No bliss but this, from sun and soil, Does God permit to grow. "Justice Bleckley, having resigned. at the con clusion of his last opinion read from the bench the above exquisite little poem, which was ordered spread upon the minutes by the Court. It consti tutes a tit close to the judicial career of one whose opinions in these reports show him not only to have been thel'gprofound lawyer, but also the accom plished scholar."—Quoted from Henry J. Jackson, Reporter for the Supreme Court of Georgia. See

64 Georgia 452.

New York, Sept. 19, 1910.

Dear Sirs: Many thanks for the copy of the Central Law journal condemning the pro posed American Corpus juris. Mr. Wig more’s success in stating the law of evidence in its present condition throughout the United States was the fact that convinced me that it could be done with respect to existing law, and that the task was not beyond human accomplishment. Mr. Wigmore's own suc cessful eﬁorts are a more convincing argument to me than his letter to the contrary written to the Editor of the Green Bag. Very truly yours, CHARLES A. BOSTON.

ENTERPRISING SELF-ADVER TISING OME Iowa lawyers seem to have some original ideas about adver

tising, if we may judge from the business card of one sent by a friend of the

Green Bag in that state.

This lawyer

calls himself a “non-union counselor at-law, and points on his card :— "Laboring people form unions to get half they make and lawyers form unions to get the other half; the capitalists and corporations are not in the deal."