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importance to our lawyers, there remains a broad field of rapidly developing common law jurisdiction in England and in her colonies, where our problems are also pressing for solu tion, we have felt it necessary to round out the department by presenting from time to time notes of the most important cases de cided in England, Canada, and Australia and occasionally in other colonial jurisdictions. The English cases will be treated by R. New ton Crane, Esq., formerly of New York, now a barrister in London and a frequent con tributor to this magazine. R. D. McGibbon, K.C., of Montreal, has kindly consented to send us notes of Canadian cases. Our ar rangements in other jurisdictions are not yet entirely complete. In some instances our annotations will be signed, in others initialed only, in others anony mous, as the preference for the time being of the author may dictate, and to encourage those who prefer to remain unknown, we shall see to it that some of the notes in each issue are unsigned. All of these notes, however, will be written by one or the other of the follow ing list of experts, which is itself sufficient evidence of the important character of the notes in this department. James Barr Ames, Dean of the Harvard Law School; James Parker Hall, Dean of the Chicago University Law School; Robert M. Hughes of Norfolk, Va., author of "Hughes on Admiralty"; William Draper Lewis, Dean of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania; Melville M. Bigelow, Dean of Boston University Law School; J. Newton Fiero, Dean of Albany Law School; Francis Rawle of Philadelphia, editor of Bouvier's "Law Dictionary," and former President of the American Bar Associa tion; Professors, Eugene Wambaugh, Joseph H. Beale, Jr., Bruce Wyman, Edward H. War ren of Harvard Law School; Horace C. Wilgus and Henry M. Bates of Michigan Law School; Ernest W. Huffcut and Frank Irvine of Cor nell Law School; William E. Mikell of Penn sylvania Law School; W. C. Dennis of Co lumbia Law School; William E. Walz, Dean of the Law School of the University of Maine;

Harry A. Bigelow, Ernst Freund, Floyd R. Mechem, Clarke B. Whittier of Chicago Uni versity Law School; John H. Wigmore, author of "Wigmore on Evidence" and Dean of the Northwestern University Law School; Albert M. Kales, Charles Cheney Hyde of the North western University Law School; Frank L. Simpson, Archibald Boy'd, George G. Gardner, Oscar Storer of the Boston University Law School; Charles F. Chamberlayne of New York City; Lee M. Friedman of the firm of Morse & Friedman, of Boston; Edward Q. Keasbey of Newark, N.J. The reputation of THE GREEN BAG as the publisher of the best original anecdotes of the Bar, which was the purpose of its foundation, will be maintained as in the past through the kindness of thousands of lawyers through out the country who send us their best stories from which to choose, and the work of a group of clever young barristers who find an agreeable pastime in preparing original short stories for our humorous department. Owing to the demands on our space caused by the expansion of these editorial depart ments, it will be necessary for the present to abandon the custom followed out this year, of printing at the opening of the editorial de partment some accounts of the authors of our contributions, together with small reproduc tions of their photographs. The modesty of our contributors has made this a difficult, though agreeable task, but that alone would not cause us to fail to gratify the natural curiosity of our readers regarding their pro fessional brethren who seek them as an audi ence. As a less important feature these bits of introduction must give way to the other departments. We hope, however, to devote some other space to a very brief introduction of our contributors to our readers; for in a country the size of ours, eminent lawyers, unless they have been active in politics, may well be almost unknown beyond their own geographical section. In conclusion, we would state that we shall always welcome criticisms or suggestions from subscribers in the interest of improving the magazine.