William B. Hornblower, counselor at law, New York City.

Samuel Untermyer, counselor at law, New York City.

Carl L Schurz, counselor at law, New York City.

De Lancey Nicholl, District Attorney of New York.

Judge Karl von Lewinski whose paper on "The Education of a German Lawyer" was one of the notable papers at the last meeting of the American Bar Association has been a member of the Department of Justice at Berlin since 1904 and on the bench there since 1906. He was a law student at the University of Muenchen and Breslau, passing his first examination in Breslau in 1897 and his second examination after the usual four years of court work in 1902.

His chief purpose in visiting the United States is to make a special study of certain branches of American Law in preparation for the American volume of a large international work now in course of publication in Germany. When completed that work will include a distinct law treatise in German, for each of the principal countries of the world. The American volume will run to about a thousand pages.

On the topic of the American Law of Bankruptcy Judge von Lewinski has spent several months at the Harvard Law School, in collaboration with Professor Samuel Williston. He is now engaged on the topic of American Civil Procedure, in collaboration with Professor Charles M. Hepburn, of the Indiana University School of Law.

The work will hold him in this country until next June, and perhaps longer.

The School of Law of Washington University has had a rapid growth in the past, and there is promise of far greater prosperity in the future, from the boom that the whole University is likely to enjoy. The source of this boom is the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, to be held at Seattle next summer. Many people distrust the idea of an exposition bringing about a local millennium for the city that gives it. The re lation of cause and effect is too vague. But in the case of Washington University it's different. The relation becomes that of the gift and the donor. The Washington State Legislature has voted $1,000,000 for the construction of Exposition buildings upon land adjoining the present grounds of the University. Of this $1,000,000 the Board of Regents of the University is to receive $600,000, primarily for University purposes-namely, the erection of five buildings, of a permanent nature. These include an Auditorium building, with a seating capacity of 3,000 persons. During the Exposition all these buildings will be at the service of the Exposition. The remaining $400,000 of the amount voted will be placed in the hands of a commission for

two other edifices, also of a character cal. culated to render them permanently useful. Like those mentioned above, they will event. ually become the property of the University, together with various smaller Exposition buildings otherwise provided for. Besides

this direct advantage the University will receive from the Exposition, it will also reap much benefit from the increased improved transportation facilities between its grounds and the city of Seattle, four miles distant.

The New York University Law School in June last, graduated the largest class in its history, 198 degrees being granted as follows: LL. B., 170; LL. M., 23; J. D., 5-of which 11 were conferred upon women. It may be interesting to note that in the class were 272 applicants for degrees. The class also included some 75 more students, who were not candidates for degrees, but who com pleted the work of the course.

The death of Professor George Alfred Miller in May last was a severe loss to the school. Professor Miller, during his elgb. teen years of work in the New York Universi ty Law School, had much to do in molding the legal training of more than 8,000 young men, who were students in the school during the time he was connected with it. Mr. Miller was a man of large experience at the bar. a citizen whose loyalty to country kept him in the National Guard for many years, a man ripe in the wisdom of men and things, eth!cal, social, and political, and withal a teacher of force and character, whose pleasing manner and engaging personality won for him the love and veneration of his students.

The Law School opened for its new year on September 24th with an entering class of 350, being a few less than the entering class of last year.

The Third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries was held at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, June 22-21. 1908. The proceedings of the various meet ings consisted in part of addresses and papers read by the following: John E. King, St. Paul, "Address of Welcome;" A. J. Small, Des Moines, Iowa, "President's Address;" Mrs. M. C. Klinglesmith, of Philadelphia, who read a paper jointly prepared by Miss C. H. Smith of Springfield, Mass., and Miss H. G. Baker of Hartford, Conn., on "The Manage ment of a Small Law Library;" Prof. Roger W. Cooley, Ann Arbor, Mich., "The use of Law Books;" Gilson Glasier, Madison, Wis., "Cataloguing Law Books, with Special Ref erence to Co-operative Indexing and to Index Cards;" C. B. Lester, Indianapolis, "The Legislative Reference Librarian's Work in a Law Library;" and Miss Edna D. Bullock, of Nebraska, on "Some Phases in Which the Law Librarian can Help the Public Library." The report of the Special Committee on Book

Binding brought out much valuable information Miss Woodward, Assistant Librarian of the University of Michigan Law Library, gave the report for the committee, and showed samples of materials used for binding in her library. Mr. Homer P. Clark, of the West Publishing Company, spoke of the grade of buckram used by the company in binding its publications. On the last day of the session, Prof. Cooley gave an explanation and demonstration of the various methods for finding authorities by the use of the Digest. Upon the recommendation of the Nominating Committee, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President-E. A. Feazel. Law Library Association, Cleveland, Ohio. Vice President-Geo. S. Goddard, Connecticut State Law Library. SecretaryTreasurer-Franklin O. Poole, Association of the Bar, New York City. Members of the

Executive Committee-Frederick W. Schenk, Law Library University of Chicago; George Kearney, Law Library Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.; Luther E. Hewitt, Law Association, Philadelphia.

In May, 1908, Marquette University affiliated with the Milwaukee Law School (evening), then in its fifteenth year, with an enrollment of eighty-two students. In July of the same year a day course was announced; and in October the Milwaukee School of Law was taken over by Marquette. Hon. James G. Jenkins is the Dean of this new department of the University. Judge Jenkins has been prominent in the legal profession for more than twenty years. In 1888 he was appointed to the bench of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, filling the position until 1898, when he was promoted to the United States Circuit Court for the Seventh Judicial District. The school is not hampered by any policy which, for the sake of consistency, must be persevered in. On the contrary, it is free to adapt itself to the growing needs of its students, and this it has done and proposes to do with the single object in view-the upbuilding of an Institution which will give its students a high ideal of the law as a profession, and an equipment which will be of service in attaining and maintaining that ideal. The policy has been, not merely to send out graduates whose memories are stuffed with legal rules, but rather men of well-disciplined minds and staunch character, who will be of service to their fellows and an honor to their college.

Another Correspondence Law School has been organized. This new school is called "The Western College of Law," and is located in Kansas City, Missouri. The following extract in reference to correspondence teachIng is taken from the school catalogue:

The practicability of teaching by correspondence has been so well demonstrated to the pub

lic that it would be difficult to locate a city, however small, but where you would find one or more successful citizens who received their technical education by correspondence. Within the

last fifteen years over 100,000 students in the United States alone have taken a course of study by correspondence, and through this means have made successful business men. This includes almost every branch of learning.

In every state of the Union there are numerous successful lawyers who received their legal education by a correspondence course. We have on our files the names and addresses of several hundred lawyers who studied by correspondence and are the strongest friends of the correspondence system.

Until teaching by correspondence was started there were many young men whose future was blasted and whose hopes and ambitions were thwarted by reason of not possessing enough money with which to pay their expenses through college. To-day none are so poor but who can afford to pay the small tuition charged for most any line of study by correspondence. The correspondence schools are a blessing to the ambitious youth who has but little money and large anticipations. It takes several hundred dollars to study law in a resident college or university.

We don't claim that the correspondence course is as good as a university course, but we do make the bold statement that it is possible for any bright, studious person to master the law by a correspondence course. Some of the brightest lawyers in our country to-day studied by this method.

The State University of Iowa has begun the erection of a fine new building for its College of Law, and the foundations are progressing rapidly.

The dimensions are 57 feet by 144 feet. The building will be four stories in height, and will be constructed throughout of gray Bedford limestone. The roof will be of tile. It will contain four lecture or class rooms, a moot court room, some ten offices for members of the faculty, study rooms for the students, with ample locker accommodations and toilet rooms, and one whole floor will be devoted to the Law Library, which will be fitted with steel stacks for the books. The woodwork throughout will be of oak, and the floors of the corridors will be of terrazzo, with a marble base. The stairs will be of marble, and the marble used on the first story will be of Champlain Jasper and Royal Red.

The cost of the building, which is to be fireproof throughout, will be $125,000, and the furniture will cost some $12,000 more.

The contract calls for the completion of the building by December 15, 1909. The work has so far progressed with greater rapidity than was anticipated, owing to the almost unbroken fine weather.

These new accommodations have long been needed, owing to the growth of the school and of the University.

Fordham University School of Law, New York City, opened the academic year of 19081909 on September 24th with a lecture by Hon. Alton B. Parker, formerly Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals. This