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lawyer, soldier, scholar, journalist, athlete, too prone to depreciate and neglect the advo cate's branch of the profession. He was an

exceedingly forceful and convincing speaker, with a pleasant turn for the lighter fields of oratory.

LORD THURLOW

Lord Thurlow By "E. M." (Condensed from London Law Times) GREAT men are often enjants tcrriblcs in thei r youth—it may be owing to the exub erance of their vitality—and being born in a parsonage does not seem to make any dif ference. At all events it did not in the case

of the youthful Thurlow. He was as fine a specimen of the incorrigibly "bad boy" as any moral story-book could desire. Being unmanageable at home, he was sent to a cler ical disciplinarian of the name of Brett, who