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sighing of the winds. You are thrilled by the resurrection called spring, touched and saddened by autumn, the grace and poetry of death.

Every field is

a picture, a landscape; every landscape a poem; every flower a tender throb, and forest a fairy land. In the country you preserve your identity, your personality. There you are an aggregation of atoms, but in the city you are only an atom of an aggrega tion." From lecture on Lincoln.

GEORGE IRVINE, QUEBEC.

(1826-)

Queen's Counsel, Doctor of Civil Laws. One

of the best known and most eminent members of the Quebec bar. Born at Quebec, November 16, 1826; rose rapidly to distinction, his services being retained in nearly every important case, especially if of a commercial nature. He was elected, 1863, to the Canadian House of Assembly to represent Megantic county. In 1867 he returned to the Commons; declined re-election in 1872; represented Megantic in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec from confederation until January, 1876, and successively held the Cabinet offices of Solicitor General and Attorney General of the Province. In 1878 he was again returned to the Legislative Assembly for Megantic, and again in 1880; resigning in 1884, to accept the appointment of Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Quebec.

Throughout his public career he has been one of the most conspicuous men in the House, and before the country, and the organization

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and legislation of the Province of Quebec under confederation still bears the impress of his powerful mind. Of wonderful tact and suavity, a skilful parliamentarian, of rare executive ability, he wielded an immense influence in the councils of that province, and on public opinion. As a speaker and debater he is eloquent, clear, precise and logical. though actually the Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Quebec, an imperial appointment, he still practices his profession in other courts, and is generally found engaged in all the more important cases, civil and criminal. He was formerly professor of commercial law in Morrin College, Quebec, and Chancellor of the University of Lennoxville. He has also

been batonnier of the Quebec bar, and a vice president of the Union Bank of Canada, of Quebec, which he helped to found. He has traveled a great deal on public and professional business, and has repeatedly crossed to England to plead before the Privy Council in appeals of great importance.

HOWELL EDMUNDS JACKSON, TENNESSEE.

(1832

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by appointment of President Harrison, February 2, 1893, to succeed Mr. Justice Lamar, deceased. He was born in Paris, Tennessee, April 8, 1832; educated at East Tennessee College, and in law at the University of Pennsylvania. He was admitted in 1856, and settled in Jackson; moved to Memphis in 1859. Was twice appointed a Judge of the State Supreme Court. Returned to Jackson, 1876, was elected to the Legislature, 1878, and the same year to the United States Senate. He was made United States Judge of the Sixth Circuit, by Presi dent Cleveland, in 1884, in place of Judge John Baxter, deceased, and moved to Nashville.

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His appointment to the Supreme Bench met with wide approval, and was urged by Mr. Justice Brown and Judge Taft of the United States Circuit. dent Harrison had tried many cases in his court, and had sat with him in the Senate, and knew his man. It is also remarkable that Mr. Harrison should have

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HOWELL EDMUNDS JACKSON,

Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

From Photograph by Giers & Hoeilein, Nashville, Tenn.

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