Oxford University has now collected a circle of very distin-
guished young lawyers, who ought to make a considerable impres- sion on the law students of the present day. Professor Bryce, M.P., has longbeen known for his masterly studies in Roman Law. We announced the other day Mr. Albert Dicey's appointment to the Vinerian Professorship, and this week it has been made known that Mr. F. Pollock, another learned scientific lawyer of very vigorous general ability,—a learned Spinozist, as well as a learned jurist,—has been elected to the Corpus Professorship of English Law, of which Blackstone was the most famous, as well as all but the first holder, and which has recently been made more illustrious by the striking lectures of Sir Henry Maine. With these three extremely able men lecturing on Law in Oxford, the Oxford School of Law should take a high place in the history of legal method.
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