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solicitor. "Why, your Honor, that is more than he pays me for prosecuting his suit!" "Well, isn't that all right?" asked the judge. "It may be he has a better way of getting Cornelius fees than you Johnson. have."

of London University finds no place for a Faculty of Law; and this is only one of many indications of the tendency to expel law wholly from the curriculum of liberal studies. Sir John Macdonell does well to invite the public teachers of law to undertake a combat for their science. No time could be better than the present for the renewal of the movement to establish a legal University — a General School of Law — for in Lord Haldane English law has at its head one who is a jurist as well as a lawyer.

THE PLACE OF THE LAW AMONG LIB ERAL STUDIES (From the Law Journal) CIR JOHN MACDONELL, whose election as a member of the British Academy is a fitting tribute to the position he holds as an exponent of the scientific side of the law, has been declaiming before the Society of Public Teachers of Law against the abandonment, in favor of other studies, of that large field of philo sophic inquiry and scientific truth which falls within the province of jurisprudence. We have gone a long way back from the posi tion which the study of the law held in the educa tion of an English gentleman even in the Middle Ages, not to speak of the dignified place which Locke assigned and Blackstone secured for it in a later generation, and even the high example of Bentham and Austin, which revived the inter est in the law as a science a century ago, has failed to be maintained. Much of this neglect, no doubt, is due to the keener struggle of com peting studies, but it must be confessed a large part of it must be attributed to the attitude which, nowadays, those who are engaged in the practice of the law take towards it as a science. Our studies are directed too much to the wants of the practitioner, and so we lose touch, so far as law is concerned, with the liberal side of education, and law becomes a "mystery" of the few, instead of an object of intellectual interest for the whole body-politic. The change is ex emplified even in our legal literature — "Hail to Halsbury" has taken the place of "Back to Blackstone." But there are greater symptoms even than that. The latest scheme for the reconstruction

INTERNATIONAL LAW LIBRARIES (From the Watchman) DROWN UNIVERSITY has the finest collection of text-books on international law in the world. It is the Wheaton collection of international law, founded in 1902, in honor of Henry Wheaton of the class of 1802, by Wil liam Van Keller of the class of 1872. Its most valuable feature is quite a complete collection of the numerous editions of Hugo Grotius' "Dc Jure Belli ac Pacis." The editions number about one hundred, and the collection includes a perfect and priceless copy of the first edition of 1625. In this connection it is interesting to know that the student of international law will find in southeastern New England the most complete collection of books on the subject in the world. This is made up of the combined libraries of the Wheaton collection in Brown University; the Bemis collection in the Boston Atheneum, the library of the Naval War Col lege at Newport, R. I., and the Olivart collection at Harvard University. All these are working in harmony. Dr. George G. Wilson, professor of international law at Harvard, is curator of the Wheaton collection, and as lecturer on inter national law at the Naval College is in charge of that department of the library there, and the Boston Atheneum is adding to its collection in lines of co-operation. The Bemis collection spe cializes in diplomacy, the Naval College in maritime law, and the Wheaton collection in texts. The Olivart collection of the Harvard Law School covers the whole field.

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— Fliegende Blaetter.

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