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that Baltimore, Maryland, and the Union have ever known." Judge Morris's associate and successor on the bench, Judge John C. Rose, said the ability of the deceased was shown by the fact that only three appeals in criminal cases had been taken from his decisions in twelve years, and he had been affirmed in them all. The late jurist had a national reputation in admiralty, and had pre sided in some intricate patent cases.

at the bar was not due only to his personal attractiveness, his cool judg ment, knowledge of the law, insight into the minds of men and his close atten tion to details, but also to his unwaver ing uprightness of character. His argu ments, whether upon the law or the facts of a case, were always listened to with marked attention by both court and jury, and his explanations were always so lucid that all who heard him had no difficulty in grasping the point Hon. Bernard Carter, the distin he strove to make. guished leader of the bar of Baltimore Former Attorney-General Isaac Lobe and Maryland, died June 3 at his cot Straus said of him: "His voice was tage at Narragansett Pier, R. I. He beautiful, his enunciation absolutely was one of the greatest lawyers that perfect, and his powers of speech and Maryland had ever had, and was expression, making the subtlest dis admired for his deep learning, his tinctions and the finest shades of mean mastery of the arts of advocacy and ing entirely clear, were marvelously argument, his commanding presence, consummate. His fame as a lawyer will and his integrity and courtliness. His go down with those who from the mind retained the smallest detail of any foundation of this state held the first matter in which he might be interested. rank at its bar — with Dulaney and As a trial lawyer he was wonderfully suc Martin, Pinkney and Harper, Wirt and cessful and always had a clear insight into Taney, Nelson and Johnson, Steele and the most complicated cases. His suc- Whyte."

Reviews of Books THOMPSON ON TRIALS1 ENLARGED from two to four volumes, and brought up to date by the inclusion of about ten thousand new citations, this well-known standard 1 A Treatise on the Law of Trials, in Actions Civil and Criminal. By Seymour D. Thompson, LL.D., author of Thompson on Stocks and Stockholders, Thompson on Homesteads and Exemptions, Thomp son on Corporations, Thompson on Negligence, etc. 2d ed., by Marion C. Early, of the St. Louis bar, editor of the 3d edition of Bishop on Statutory Crimes, author of Assignments for Benefit of Credi-

work, Thompson on Trials, is sure to earn for itself a place of even greater importance in the esteem of bench and bar, and to win new repute as one of the most imposing examples of American legal scholarship. Like Dillon on Municipal Corpora tions, which has grown from two to five tors. "Cyc." editor of 2d edition of Bishop on Con tracts. 4 v. T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago. V. 1-2, pp. xxix +2119; v. 3, Forms of Instructions, pp. 1207; v. 4, Table of Cases and index, pp. 830. (126 delivered.)