Our Contributors.

HONORABLE JACOB KLEIN is the senior member of the firm of Klein & Hough and one of the leading lawyers of St. Louis. He received his degree from the Harvard Law School in 1871 and before the formation of his present firm was for many years Circuit Judge in Missouri. He has taken an active interest in the work of the American Bar Association and was called upon to preside over the meeting at which the Code of Ethics was adopted. v JUDGE JACOB M. DICKINSON, the retiring president of the Ameri can Bar Association, is so well known to our readers through the appreciative sketch by Mr. S. S. Gregory of Chicago which we printed last October that he needs no further introduction. HONORABLE WILLIAM SCHOFIELD is a graduate of Harvard col lege and the Harvard Law School. After serving for a time as instructor in the latter institution he practiced in Boston until he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court in Massachusetts a few years ago. He has found time since he has been on the bench to contribute occasional articles to legal periodicals. The manuscript which we print in this number was an address delivered by him before the section on legal education of the American Bar Association at Seattle in August. WALLACE R. LANE is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Brown college and the Yale Law School. After a short period of practice in Fitchburg, Mass., he settled in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1901, where as the junior member of the firm of Orwig & Lane he has since specialized in patent law, for which his scientific and mechani cal studies at Brown especially prepared him. He is a member of the Chicago and the Washington Patent Bar Associations and lec turer on patents at Drake University and the University of Nebraska. His article was read before the section on patent and copyright laws. We print in this number the text of the Code of Ethics adopted by the American Bar Association at its annual meeting, together with a photograph of the active members of the committee in session at Washington while at work on the draft of the code last winter. The importance of this instrument seemed to merit special treatment in this issue. KARL VON LEWINSKI is a graduate of the Universities of Munich and Breslau and for the last three years has been a member of the Prussian department of justice, serving as Amtsrichter, or county court judge, in Berlin. He has been in this country on a leave of absence studying some subjects of American law on which he will write in an international work to be published in Germany under government auspices. The paper which we publish in this number was read by him before the section on legal education at the meeting of the American Bar Association at Seattle.