Advice to the Young Advocate.

"The fundamental duty of every young lawyer is rightly and fully to appreciate his profession. It is not a trade; it is not a mere means of livelihood. It is not a mere business. It is not a ladder for political ambition. It is not a mere means for acquiring wealth, nor for insuring social respectability, nor even for winning fame. The man who has no higher view of the profession of the law than to embrace it with one or all of these minor motives, in my judgment, degrades it. It is a duty of the lawyer to his profession that it should not lose respectability in comparison with other employments through any meagerness of its compensation. But, nevertheless, he

should not make it a trade, nor a mere means of living. In the midst of this gold-seeking, materialistic world, and especially gold-seeking and materialistic day and generation, I would urge upon the young lawyers to appreciate the dignity of professional life. Let it be the resolution of every lawyer, while he never obtrudes it, and forbears any ignoble estimate of other callings, still never to forget the dignity of his profession, and so to live that through him all shall more respect it. In view of the necessity of study, I am prepared to say, almost cruel as it may seem, that the best thing that can befall a young man, who is really fit for the profession and who has the pluck and tenacity of purpose which characterize true manhood, is that in early life he should have hard work to get on, and be forced in order to make use of his time, to

employ it in study. Dig into the foundations of legal science, dig to the very bottom and work upward. Imbue your minds with legal principles, study natural law, civil law, and above all, sound every depth of the common law. Study English history, and especially the history of the law. Do everything you have to do thoroughly and with faith, never flagging, that one day your labor will be rewarded. Books have been written full of hints and suggestions. Many of these are very valuable. But after all, we must steal from a very different line of thought the best prescription, 'Love will find out the way.' He will be a good advocate, and win the highest prize, who with good sense and strength of will unites an enthusiastic determination to attain every excellence compatible with his opportunities, and energetically gives himself night and day to the effort. He only strikes high who aims high. The higher you aim the higher you will attain."-Written by Mr. Parker for the New York Herald.

The Great Judge.

"The voice of the great judge never dies. From age to age we hear and obey it. Is Marshall dead? Is Taney? Is Chase? Is Story? Are their compeers? Not so. Not so. They speak, and with authorityauthority, in the case of some of them, increasing as the years roll on. They depart, indeed, but on earth, as in the far Beyond, they are immortal."-Extract from remarks made in the Supreme Court of the U. S., Feb. 6, 1892, on the death of Judge Bradley.

JOEL PARKER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

(1795-1875.)

For fifteen years a member of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and for twenty years law professor at Harvard. Born in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, January 25, 1795, died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 17, 1875, aged eighty years. The son of an intelligent and independent farmer, he graduated from Dartmouth College at sixteen, was admitted at twenty, and settled at Keene, New Hampshire. He was appointed a member of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in 1833, and became Chief Justice in 1836, which position he resigned in 1848 to become professor in the Harvard Law School, which position he, in turn, resigned in 1868. In 1840 he was chairman of the committee to revise the laws of New Hampshire. He also held the professorship of medical jurisprudence for twelve years in Dartmouth, a like position in a New York medical college, and gave one or more courses of lectures on the Constitution in Dartmouth, and in the Columbian Law School at Washington. Dartmouth

conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1837, and Harvard in 1848. At the time of his death he was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

His busy life was almost entirely occupied with the law and its administration. His works in law and literature, if published, would fill twenty volumes. An original investigator, he knew no compromise with right and duty-the most notable instance of which was the difference of opinion arising between the United States Circuit Court and the Superior Court of New Hampshire, the former lead by Judge Story and the latter by Judge Parker, turning upon the meaning of the word 'lien,' upon which depended the disposition of a large amount of property. Collision between the Federal and State courts was prevented by the United States Supreme Court deciding in harmony with Judge Parker. "As a Constitutional lawyer," says Emory Washburn, "his knowledge was full, exhaustive, and exact." He was a great lover of poetry, notably Shakespeare. His private life was exemplary. He was pre-eminently impartial, careful in research, and of untiring diligence.

Clash of State and Federal Law.

"Perhaps the most memorable instance of fearless adherence of Judge Parker to his own convictions, when opposed to the opinion of others, however eminent in place and influence, was the difference of opinion which arose between the Circuit Court of the United States and the Superior Court of New Hampshire, upon the construction to be given to a single expression in the bankrupt law of 1841, in the discussion of which Judge Story represented one side of the question, and Chief Justice Parker the other. It turned upon the meaning of the word 'lien' as used in that statute, and whether it extended to the liens created by the statutes of some of the estates by attachments upon mesne process of the property of a debtor at the suits of creditors. The court of New Hampshire held that it did. The Circuit Court maintained the contrary. Upon its decision depended the disposition to be made of a considerable amount of property held by attachment by the sheriff of New Hampshire, but claimed by the assignees in bankruptcy of the debtor, on the ground that the process in bankruptcy dissolved the attachment and avoided the claim of the sheriff under the same. The language of both courts was alike assured and unambiguous. On the part of Judge Story, he insisted that the District Court of the United States might enjoin the creditor of the bankrupt from proceeding by levying upon the property under the process of the State; and, if he should thereafter proceed in disobedience