Our Contributors.

CHARLES FENNELL is a lawyer in active practice in Lexington, Kentucky, who has previously contributed to our pages an account of Thomas Marshall. MR. BLYTHE found time to send us a few more verses before starting on his summer vacation. He has already been '"sufficiently introduced to our readers. H. GERALD CHAPIN is Professor of Law in Fordham College, New York, and was formerly editor of the " American Lawyer." He is a frequent contributor to other legal periodicals. ROSCOE POUND is Professor of Law in Northwestern University, as well as editor of the Illinois Law -Review. He is one of the fore most of the group of Western lawyers who are ardent advocates of reform in our judicial procedures. Through his brilliant addresses before the American Bar Association, some of which we have'printed, he has stirred the Association to the formation of a committee'which is now dealing with this difficult and important topic. His contribu tion to this number is his address recently delivered at the annual meeting of the Illinois State Bar Association. J. NOBLE HAYES is one of the New York lawyers'who devote themselves to practice in courts. He has always taken an effective interest in the organization of the profession, and is in a large measure responsible for the activities of the new association which he describes in this number.