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The Law Journal and Lord Macmillan have been paying tributes to John Galsworthy for the accuracy with which he handled legal questions, the latter men- tioning that he was searchingly questioned about the law of extradition before Maid in Waiting was written. Shakespeare, writing The Merchant of Venice, could afford• to ignore utterly the legal limits of a contract, where an erring modern novelist would "rouse a hive of protesters." But though itr. Galsworthy was so strictly accurate in his handling of law, the producers of his plays on one occasion (with or without his connivance) were ready to stretch a point in presenting court procedure. The play Justice was a direct attack on abuses of the prison system and indirectly of the judicial System. It led to reforms of historical importance which definitely date the play. In those less humane days there were no women jurors. But women were included in the jury in Mr. Leon M. Lion's last production.
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