HARD ON THE JUDGE [To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—An item of news to the effect that Wealdstone County Court seating has been fitted with cushions of cellular latex reminds those of us who must spend long hours in the courts of justice that the ancient furnishings of some of them are no more designed for comfort than are our ancient laws for speed. The court in which I spend most of my professional time, and which I may be pardoned for not mentioning, is a hard one for the legal men and, if rumour does not lie, generations of judges, some of them no lightweights, have compressed the upholstery of the judge's seat even, into a solid and unsympa- thetic slab.
If law courts can be upholstered only once in fifty years— or is it a century ?—then let it be from the milk of the rubber tree next time.—I am, Sir, &e.,
" LINCOLN'S INN."
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