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of Romanticism, and in music its ‘chiefest apostle.’ One is not surprised therefore to read that his entering

was peculiarly sensitive, namely ‘Purity in Musical Art.’

Moreover, Schumann

studied long enough — in all two years

Leipsic University as Sludiosus Juris was solely to please his widowed mother who would not hear of his following an artist's career. Nor is it surprising that she defeated her own end, for at Heidelberg University — to which Schu mann shortly transferred himself— her son made the acquaintance of Willibald Alexis, who had already trodden the

— and ultimately hard enough, to prove that failure was due to his utter inca pacity for a legal career. . ..

path Schumann was destined to follow

remembered chieﬂy as a critic and theo rist, and as the teacher of Glinka, Kullak and Rubinstein, studied juris

"Gottfried Weber, Doctor of Laws and Philosophy, and State Attorney at Darmstadt, . . was not only pro ﬁcient on the piano, ﬂute and violon cello, but became eminent as a musical

theorist."

Siegfried W. Dehn, who is

— that through the law to music. And the eminent jurist whose classes he attended, A. F. J. Thibaut, was an amateur musician of high attainments

And Von Biilow only after two years‘

and the author of a work on precisely that aspect of music to which Schumann

study of the law at Leipsic and Berlin threw over his career as a lawyer.

prudence at Leipsic from 1819 to 1823.

Obstacles to Legal Reform BY E. DeFonss'r Lsxca

UCH criticism is being made by the press and general public be

cause the legal profession does not reform the laws of court procedure. The need for such reform is more evi dent to the lawyer than to the layman, but the means of accomplishing the change is by no means so clear to him as it appears to be to his critic. Nothing appears to be easier to the lay mind,

The result of an eﬂ'ort to pass legisla tion of this character in one state during the recent session of its legislature, is,

I think, typical of all.

The legal pro

fession was as largely represented as it

usually is in such bodies, and the reforms desired were as generally agreed upon by the state bar association and the lawyers who were in the legislature as could be expected, yet, although over

when once a change in the law is agreed

thirty diﬂerent bills were introduced,

to be desirable, than to prepare a new law and have it passed by the legislature. There usually being a large number

each directed to reforming the procedure of the courts in that particular state, only one was passed. Many of these defeated bills were of great merit

of lawyers as members of each branch, the failure to pass such reform measures is taken as positive proof that the legal profession is opposed to progress and

reform in these matters.

and would have been of untold value to the residents of that state in improv ing acknowledged defects in the practice existing therein.