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The volume assembles the lighter side of legal life through a wide selection of anecdotes, repartees, and witty sayings from members of the Bench and Bar in England, Ireland, Scotland, and America. Organized into regional and professional chapters, it combines brief biographical notices and courtroom stories with engraved portraits and source notes. Contributors and editors draw on legal biography and contemporary reports to preserve memorable bon mots, sarcastic retorts, and comical incidents, presenting a readable anthology that emphasizes character, culture, and the informal humor surrounding judicial and advocacy practice.

Abbot, Mr. Justice, 43

Abinger, Lord, 35, 36, 42

Adam, H. L., 80, 101

Adams, Serjeant, 85

Adolphus, John, 76

Alderson, Baron, 45

Alemoor, Lord, 156

Allen, Serjeant, 68

Alverstone, Lord, 62

Andrews, W., 26, 99

Anne, Queen, 107, 159

Archibald, Mr. Justice, 94

Ardwall, Lord, 193, 212

Arnot, Hugo, 201, 203

Atkinson, Mrs., 90

Auchinleck, Lord, 155

Avonmore, Lord, 119-122, 131, 133

Avory, Lord, 62, 63


Bacon, Lord, 68

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 5

Bacon, Vice-Chancellor, 38, 54

Baird, Mr., of Cambusdoon, 192

Baldwin, Mr., 83

Balfour, Sheriff, 209

Ballantine, Serjeant, 81, 88

Balmuto, Lord, 201

Bannatyne, Lord, 165

Barjarg, Lord, 156

Bell, Abigail, 234

Bethel, I. B., 136

Birrell, Augustine, 89

Blair, Lord President, 170

Blair, Thomas W., 159

Boswell, James, 155, 165

Bowen, Lord, 53, 54

Boyd, Judge, 135

Boyle, Lord Justice-Clerk, 175

Braxfield, Lord, 155, 182, 183, 200

Brocklesby, Dr., 15

Brougham, Lord, 17, 39-43, 117, 188, 205

Brown, Judge Bela, 243

Buchan, Earl of, 27, 202

Bullen, Edward, 85

Burrowes, Peter, 145

Burrows, Sir James, 9

Bushe, Charles K., 118, 122, 138

Butler, Sir Toby, 127

Byles, Mr. Justice, 49

Byron, Lord, 224


Campbell, Lord John, 13, 25, 34, 35, 41-44, 76, 86

Campbell, Lord President, 181

Carleton, Chief Justice, 112

Carleton, Lady, 112

Chambers, Montague, 77

Charles II, 6, 68

Chelmsford, Lord, 46

Chitty, Lord Justice, 38

Choate, Rufus, 234-236

Clare, Lord, 132

Clarke, George, minstrel, 97

Clarke, Thomas, 75, 76

Clonmel, Earl of, 109, 110

Coalston, Lord, 156

Cockburn, Lord, 171, 173, 174, 175, 185-187, 215

Cockburn, Sir Alexander, 46, 47, 55-57

Cockle, Serjeant, 100, 101

Coleridge, Lord, 51, 52

Collins, Stephen, Q.C., 140, 141

Colman, George, 79

Colquhoun, Sir James, 202

Connor, John, 143

Cooke, Tom, 36

Cottenham, Lord Chancellor, 42

Coutts, Thomas, 159

Covington, Lord, 155

Cox, Judge, 245

Crabtree, Jesse, 79

Cranworth, Lord, 35

Cringletie, Lord, 170

Crispe, Thomas E., 94

Crosbie, Andrew, 205

Cunningham, Lord, 206

Curran, J. P., 109, 113, 120, 121, 127-134


Danckwerts, Mr., Q.C., 59

Darling, Mr. Justice, 3, 4, 58-60

Davenport, Sir Thomas, 12

Davy, Serjeant, 70, 71

Deas, Lord, 177

Denman, Lord, 72, 73

Dewar, Lord, 51

Dirleton, Lord, 153

Douglas, Alexander, W.S., 188

Dowling, Judge, 240

Doyle, Mr., 121

Duke, Mr., K.C., 60

Dun, Lord, 159

Dundas, Henry (Lord Melville), 157, 200
Robert, first Lord President, 156, 158
—— second Lord President, 204

Dunning, Serjeant, 17, 73, 74


Egan, John, Q.C., 131, 134

Egerton, Master of Rolls, 6

Eldin, Lord, 164, 167-171

Eldon, Earl of, 10-12, 17-19, 167, 171, 179

Elizabeth, Queen, 68

Ellenborough, Lord, 20, 21

Elliock, Lord, 156

Erne, Lord, 114

Erskine, Henry, 27, 164, 199-202
John, of Carnoch, 157
—— Lord, 27-31, 46

Esher, Lord, 54

Eskgrove, Lord, 155, 160, 161, 162, 164, 199

Evans, 228

Eve, Mr. Justice, 69


Fisher, Dr., 19

Fitton, Lord Chancellor, 127

Flood, Right Hon. H., 110

Forglen, Lord, 160

Fortesque, Lord, 8

Foster, Judge, 113

Fountainhall, Lord, 153, 154

Furton, Sir Thomas, 132


Gardenstone, Lord, 156

Garrick, David, 243

George III, 19, 24

Gillespie, Rev. Dr., 238

Gillon, Joseph, W.S., 219

Glengarry, 161

Gould, Mr. Justice, 22, 30, 60, 71

Grady, H. D., 135-136

Graham, Baron, 34

Grantham, Mr. Justice, 58

Guildford, Lord, 68

Guthrie, Lord, 193


Hailes, Lord, 156

Halkerston, Lord, 163

Halligan, Denis, 113, 114

Hardwicke, Lord, 8

Harper, Sheriff, 206

Harris, Billy, 111

Hatton, Lord Chancellor, 5

Haweis, Rev. H. R., 223

Hawkins, Sir Henry (Lord Brampton), 54-57

Hayward, Mr., 132

Healy, Tim, 146, 147

Henderson, Sir John, 161

Henn, Chief Baron, 111
Jonathan, 111, 112
William, Judge, 111

Henry VIII, 4

Henry, Patrick, 224

Hermand, Lord, 165, 174, 176, 179-181

Herrick, Mr., 141

Hill, Serjeant, 69, 70

Holmes, Mr., 138

Holroyd, Chief Justice, 38

Holt, Lord Justice, 37

Hook, John, 224

Horne, Mr., Dean of Faculty, 193

Horner, Mr., 183

Hyde, Edward (Lord Campden), 7


Jackson, Sheriff Officer, 116

James, Edwin, 85, 86

James V, 153

Jeffrey, Lord, 172, 187

Jeffreys, Judge, 7

Jekyll, Serjeant, 79, 80


Kames, Lord, 5, 156, 165, 166

Keating, Mr. Justice, 61, 68

Keller, Jerry, 139

Kennedy, Mrs., 52

Kennet, Lord, 158

Kenyon, Lord, 10-12, 22-24

Kilkerran, Lord, 163

Kingston, Duchess of, 13

Knight-Bruce, Lord Justice, 47, 48


Labron, John, 39

Landseer, Sir Edwin, 81

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 85

Lawson, Mr. Justice, 123

Lee, Jack, 77

Leeds, Duke of, 46

Lees, Richard, 206

Lifford, Lord Chancellor, 110

Lockwood, Sir Frank, 89, 92

Logan, Sheriff, 206

Lysaght, Edward, 136, 137


M'Cormick, Samuel, 175

Macdonald, Chief Baron, 34

Macklin, Actor, 128

Maclaren, Lord, 194

MacMahon, Serjeant, 145

Mahaffy, Ninian, 140, 141

Mair, Ludovick, 208

Maloney, Mr., 130

Manners, Lord Chancellor, 141

Mansfield, Earl of, 14-16, 74, 205

Margarot, 183

Martin, Baron, 44, 45, 81

Maule, Mr. Justice, 31-34

Meadowbank, Lord (first), 159

Meadowbank, Lord (second), 164, 169, 179

Mellor, Mr., 91, 92

Miller, Sir Thomas, 157

Millicent, Sir John, 6

Milton, Lord, 159

Missing, Serjeant, 75

Mitchell, John, 112

Monboddo, Lord, 153, 157

Moncreiff, Lord, 175, 183, 184
Rev. Sir Henry Wellwood, 175
Lord Justice-Clerk, 211

Moore, Frankfort, 123

Moore, Judge, 112

More, Sir Thomas, 4, 5

Muir, Mr., 82

Murphy, Mr., gaoler, 117


Nagle, Mr., 127

Nangle, Mr., 107, 108, 109

Nares, Mr. Justice, 27

Newhall, Lord, 160

Newton, Lord, 171-173

Norbury, Lord, 114-117, 132, 133, 145

Norfolk, Duke of, 19


O'Connell, Daniel, 117, 141-144

O'Flanagan, F. R., 107, 137

O'Gorman, Mr., 139, 140

O'Grady, Chief Baron, 117-119

Orton, Arthur, 55

Oswald, Francis, 95, 96


Page, Mr. Justice, 22

Parker, Chief Baron, 15

Parry, Serjeant, 93, 101

Parsons, Chief Justice, 223, 224

Parsons, Commissioner, 144, 145

Patteson, Mr. Justice, 61

Peat, Mr., 80

Petigru, Mr., 231

Phillimore, Sir Walter, 57

Phillips, Charles, 54

Phillips, 123, 128

Phipps, Lord Chancellor, 107

Pigot, Chief Baron, 141

Pinckney, Judge W. M., 230

Pitfour, Lord, 158

Pitmilly, Lord, 174

Plowden, Mr., 55

Plunket, Lord, 122, 123, 138

Polkemmet, Lord, 155, 163, 164

Powis, Mr. Justice, 8

Pratt, Sir John, Lord Justice, 9

Prime, Serjeant, 26, 72

Pritchard, Mary, 77

Pyne, Chief Justice, 107, 108


Queensberry, Duke of, 29


Raine, Mr., 100

Redsdale, Lord Chancellor, 140

Reid, David, 159, 160

Ribton, Mr., Q.C., 50

Robertson, Patrick, Lord, 188

Roche, Sir Boyle, 133

Rodgers, Judge K., 241, 247

Romilly, Lord, 89

Rose, Sir George, 18

Ross, Charles, 159

Russell, Lord John, 42

Russell, Lord, of Killowen, 51

Rutherford, Lord, 189

Rutland, Earl of, 4

Ryder, Chief Justice, 9


Scarlett, Miss, 43

Scott, James, Q.C., 137

Scott, Sir Walter, 160, 199, 219

Shaftesbury, Lord, 6

Shand, Lord, 190, 191, 193

Shee, Mr., Q.C., 51

Sinclair, Sir John, 30

Sleigh, Warner, 83

Smith, Judge A., 241

Smith, F. E., 95

Speer, Judge Emery, 229

Stanley, Lord, 41

Stonefield, Lord, 157, 185

Strichen, Lord, 156

Sugden, Sir Edward, 39

Sullivan, Mr., 223

Sumner, Mr., 234

Swinton, Lord, 200


Taylor, Senator, 230

Tenterden, Lord, 25

Thomas, Serjeant, 73

Thomson, Baron, 34

Thorpe, W. G., 86

Thurlow, Lord, 10-13, 19, 20

Townshend, Lord, 110

Tunstal, Dr., 77


Warren, Samuel, 46, 83

Wauchope, Mr., of Niddrie, 186

Webster, Daniel, 227, 228

Wedderburn, Alexander (Lord Roslin), 7

Weldon, Mrs., 54

Weller, Mr., 107, 108

Westbury, Lord, 34, 35, 47

Wharton, Mr., 94

Whigham, Mr., 79

Wight, Alexander, 155

Wightman, Mr. Justice, 50

Wilkins, Serjeant, 6, 72, 73

Willes, Mr. Justice, 21, 49, 78

Williams, Montague, 49, 88

Wills, Mr. Justice, 38

Wirt, William, 227, 228


Yorke, Edward (Lord Hardewicke), 8

Young, Lord, 191-193


SOME SCOTTISH BOOKS

BOOK of EDINBURGH ANECDOTE

By Francis Watt. The stories in "The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote," good in themselves, illustrate in an interesting way bygone times. The heroics and the follies, the greatness and the littleness, the wit and humour of famous or even infamous citizens are presented in a lively manner. Even to those who know much about Edinburgh much will be fresh, for the material has been gathered from many and various, and not seldom obscure, sources. With thirty-two portraits in collotype and frontispiece in colour. 312 pp. Buckram, 5/- net; Leather, 7/6 net.

BOOK of GLASGOW ANECDOTE

By D. Macleod Malloch. This book is a storehouse of information regarding Glasgow, and is full of interesting and amusing stories of Church, University, medical, legal, municipal, and commercial life. No such collection of Glasgow anecdotes has hitherto appeared in any single volume; and their interest is such that this book should appeal not only to Glasgow people, but also to all who can appreciate good stories of professional and commercial life, and stories illustrative of Scottish character. With frontispiece in colour and thirty-five portraits in collotype. 400 pp. Buckram, 5/- net; Leather, 7/6 net.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

By Hilda T. Skae. This volume contains a compact account of the life of one of the most romantic figures in Scottish history. It contains sixteen illustrations in colour besides many portraits, and merely to turn them over is to gain a more living and reliable idea of the course of her tragic life, and of the characters of those who surrounded her, than the most careful of historical descriptions. The very actors and actresses move before the reader's eyes; and their stories, ceasing to be distant traditions, are seen to concern the movements, hesitations, half-hopes, and human impulses of people strangely like ourselves. 224 pp. Buckram, 5/- net; Velvet Persian, 7/6 net.

R. L. STEVENSON: MEMORIES

Being twenty-five illustrations, reproduced from photographs, of Robert Louis Stevenson, his homes and his haunts, many of these reproduced for the first time. A booklet for every Stevenson lover. In Japon vellum covers, 1/- net; bound in Japanese vellum, with illustrations mounted, 2/6 net.

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BOOKS TO ENTERTAIN

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF IRISH LIFE

By George A. Birmingham. Its title suggests unbridled jocularity—and it is in fact full of inimitable fun; but there is a basis of solid thought and sympathy to all the mirth. While replenishing the common stock of Irish stories, Mr Birmingham adjusts our conception of the race. Mr Kerr's sixteen illustrations in colour form a gallery of genre studies, sympathetic and yet sincere, that allows us to look with our own eyes upon Ireland as she really is to-day. 288 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Velvet Persian, 7/6 net.

IRISH LIFE & CHARACTER

By Mrs S. C. Hall. "Tales of Irish Life" will remind the reader more of Lever or Sam Lover than of "Lavengro." It is effervescent and audacious, ringing with all the fun of the fair, and spiced with the constant presence of a vivacious and irresistible personality. The sixteen illustrations by Erskine Nicol are in precisely the same vein, matching Mrs Hall's sketches so manifestly that it is strange they have never been united before. To look at them is to laugh. 330 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Velvet Persian, 7/6 net.

LORD COCKBURN'S MEMORIALS

"This volume," says The Saturday Review, "is one of the most entertaining books a reader could lay his hands on." "The book," says The Edinburgh Review, "is one of the pleasantest fireside volumes that has ever been published." Cockburn's pen could tell a tale as well as his tongue, and to read this book is to sit, unobserved, at that immortal Round Table, with anecdote and reminiscence in full tide. With twelve portraits in colour by Sir Henry Raeburn, and other illustrations. Extra Crown 8vo. 480 pp. Buckram, 6/- net.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARLYLE OF INVERESK (1722-1805)

Edited by J. Hill Burton. "He was the grandest demi-god I ever saw," wrote Sir Walter Scott of the author of this book. But, as these Memoirs show, he was a demi-god with a very human heart,—or, at any rate, a "divine" with a thorough knowledge of the world. It was probably these qualities that made him such a prominent figure in his day, and it is certainly these that give his Recollections their unique importance and raciness. They provide "by far the most vivid picture of Scottish life and manners that has been given to the world since Scott's day." This edition has been equipped with a series of thirty-six portraits reproduced in photogravure of the chief personages who move in its pages. 612 pp. Buckram, 6/- net.

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SOME ENGLISH BOOKS

THE ENGLISH CHARACTER

By Spencer Leigh Hughes, M.P., Sub-Rosa of the Daily News and Leader. Although his pen has probably covered more pages than Balzac's, this is the first time Sub-Rosa has really "turned author." The charm and penetration of the result suggest that his readers will never allow him to turn back again. He is a born essayist, but he has, in addition, the breadth and generosity that journalism alone can give a man. The combination gives a kind of golden gossip—criticism without acrimony, fooling without folly. The work contains sixteen pictures in colour of English types by Frederick Gardner. 300 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Leather, 7/6 net.

ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE

By Walter Raymond. Mr Raymond is our modern Gilbert White; and many of the chapters have a thread of whimsical drama and delicious humour which will remind the reader of "The Window in Thrums." It is a book of happiness and peace. It is as fragrant as lavender or new-mown hay, and as wholesome as curds and cream. With sixteen illustrations in colour by Wilfrid Ball, R. E. 462 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Leather, 7/6 net.

ENGLISH LIFE & CHARACTER

By Mary Mitford. Done with a delicate Dutch fidelity, these little prose pastorals of Miss Mitford's would live were they purely imaginary—so perfect is their finish, so tender and joyous their touch. But they have, in addition, the virtue of being entirely faithful pictures of English village life as it was at the time they were written. With sixteen illustrations in colour by Stanhope Forbes, R.A. 350 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Leather, 7/6 net.

THE RIVER OF LONDON

By Hilaire Belloc. Everybody who has read the "Path to Rome" will learn with gladness that Mr Hilaire Belloc has written another book in the same sunny temper, dealing with the oldest highway in Britain. It is a subject that brings into play all those high faculties which make Mr Belloc the most genuine man of letters now alive. The record of the journey makes one of the most exhilarating books of our time, and the series of Mr Muirhead's sixteen pictures painted for this book sets the glittering river itself flowing swiftly past before the eye. 200 pp. Buckram, 5/- net. Leather, 7/6 net.

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