Our Contributors.

In pursuance of our policy of publishing accounts of the leading lawyers who are Presidential candidates, we present in this number a sketch of Judge Gray, by GEORGE H. BATES. Mr. Bates is a native of Wilmington, Del., and was for twenty-five years in active practice in that city. In 1889 he was one of the three Commissioners who represented the United States at the International Conference at Berlin which regulated the Government of the Samoan Islands. For several years past he has been engaged in special legal and historical studies in Philadelphia, and in addition has appeared as special counsel for the State of Delaware in an important boundary litiga tion with the State of New Jersey involving expert historical knowl edge. CHARLES WARREN is the head of the firm of Warren, Perry and Codman of Boston and is also chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission. He is a native of Boston, a graduate of Har vard Law School. The account of the Charles River Bridge case, the first installment of which we published in this number, is to be a chapter in the forthcoming history of the Harvard Law School, which he is preparing. • HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE, a graduate of Dartmouth College, is at present a student in the Harvard Law School. He has previously contributed verses to this magazine. EUGENE WAMBAUGH is a native of Ohio and a graduate of Har vard College and the Harvard Law School. After several years of practice in Cincinnati, he became a professor in the Law School of the University of Iowa. Since 1892 he has been professor of law in the Harvard Law School, where he now holds the Langdell professor ship. He has for many years given valuable counsel to the Editor of this magazine. DR. RUDOLPH LEONHARD is a professor in the University of Breslau. Last winter he was the exchange Professor at Columbia University under its arrangement with the German Government. He delivered there an important series of lectures on German law and has consented to send us the brief commentary which we pub lish in this number. JUDGE BLOUNT, who is again a welcome contributor to this number, is now a resident of Washington, D. C., where he intends to engage in practice.