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The Life Of Lord Chancellor Blackburne.* As A General Rule,

the biography of a distinguished lawyer is in- teresting only to lawyers or his relatives. Few lawyers indeed have attained to posts of the highest eminence without in some way......

Professor Masson's Essays.* These Essays, With A Single...

unimportant exception, have seen the light before, and are reprinted from a volume published by Mr. Masson in 1856. Besides the paper which gives its unfortunate title to the......