A writer in the Times has called attention to what
younger members of the Bar have long felt to be a pressing grievance. The Inns of Court are supposed to provide a library and a dining. room for their members. The library is open from ten till four or five, that is, exactly at the hours when members of the Bar cannot use it ; and is closed in the evening, when it could be used by all barristers, and there are very many of them who have no libraries of their own. Dinners, again, are provided in term time only, that is, for about ten weeks in the year, though many barristers live in London, and presumably dine in it for between nine and ten months in each year. The Benchers have, in most cases, libraries and cooks of their own. This fact, it has been suggested, accounts for their willingness to sacrifice the convenience of the Bar to the convenience of the librarians and the cooks.
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