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of an increase in the product of his versatile pen, which has long rendered effective service to all sound movements for the advancement of law and the improvement of its administration. THE BEGINNINGS OF A NEW SCHOOL? PROFESSOR M UN ROE SMITH of A Columbia University delivered a course of lectures last winter at Johns Hopkins, to graduate students of politi cal science, on the data and elements of jurisprudence. When these lectures are published in book form, as they presumably will be shortly, they are certain to excite profound interest not only in this country but abroad. Pro fessor Roscoe Pound's anticipated work on Sociological Jurisprudence will like wise be of prime importance. Whether the United States offers a congenial environment for the develop ment of a native school of philosophical jurists remains to be seen. There are various signs which indicate that we were never nearer than we are at the present time to the realization of such a hope. The Old World can no longer claim a monopoly of intellectual dis covery in the fields of philosophy, economics, sociology, and medicine, and we believe that the time is near when it must surrender a share of its triumphs in jurisprudence and politics to the New.

GOVERNOR CORWIN AS A STORY TELLER A CORRESPONDENT who has contributed many anecdotes to the Green Bag, J. T. Holmes, Esq., of Columbus, O., writes to us regarding the regrets of the late Governor Corwin of Ohio to discover himself famous chiefly as a story-teller. We quote: — "On the stump in a political cam

paign, he was incomparable as a wit and humorist. So fixed were his talent and reputation, in these respects, that it is part of his history that he has been known to convulse great audiences with laughter and applause by mere expres sions, not by contortions of his face, and by slight changes in the attitude of his person, after rising to his feet to speak and before uttering a word. "He was really one of the greatest statesmen and philosophers of this commonwealth. He had been Gover nor, Senator — opposing the Mexican War while in Congress, speaking of our own soldiery, he made famous the phrase, 'I would welcome them with bloody hands to hospitable graves' — later Minister to Mexico. Finally stricken on his way home from that country, in his last few days he ex pressed the fear and regret that he would be remembered as a wag and a humorist rather than for his higher, sterner, more substantial and useful qualities and the record which they had helped him make. "It was a rational feeling. One would rather be remembered, if at all, for 'the weightier matters of the law,' than as a story-teller, or as author of the stories themselves. The case of President Lincoln is unique. There is no danger that the stories imputed to him, or which he told for illustration or relief from the intense strains of his position, can ever overshadow the tragedy of his last four years."

A VERSIFIED PLEADING IN response to a suggestion from the lawyers of Creek County, Okla., we publish copy of a petition filed in the District Court of Creek County, at Sapulpa, Okla., on May 2, 1912. Hon. Wade S. Stanfield, the