the profession as he had appeared in no cause celebre, except the Belt libel action; but he adapted himself easily and quickly. He kept the Law Officer's deci sions in patent appeals up to the high level attained under Palmer, Cairns and Herschell.

Although inferior in parliamentary ability to Sir Edward Clarke, he has done herculean service in several critical debates, compelling Mr. Gladstone to hear him in silence during one of the famous Irish nights, and replying to Sir William Harcourt's onslaught upon his conduct before the Parnell Commission with exceptional power. He is one of the great cross-examiners at the London bar, and one of the most hard-working and most successful practitioners in Great Britain. With Sir Charles Russell he represented Great Britain in the late Behring Sea arbitration at Paris, being created a knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, for his services in that connection.

The Howe-Hummel of London.

"It is said that when Sir Richard Webster was crossing the Atlantic in 1893, he encountered, in the smoking saloon, a well-known New York sporting

man, whose appearance and conversation did not convey to Sir Richard any accurate idea of his occupa tion. The New Yorker was quite elated with the acquaintance and decided to introduce Sir Richard to his wife. The presentation took place on deck, as follows: 'Mary, let me present my friend, Lord Webster, of England, one of the greatest lawyers there. He is the Howe-Hummel of London."-Sep., 1894, Green Bag.

His Enormous Income.

Mr. Webster is said to have received $100,000 for his services in the Parnell Commission and the Times libel matter.

"He earned, during the legal year which closed last August, about £40,000 ($200,000), the larg est figure even his great professional income has ever reached His fees in four days at the summer assizes amounted to £3,000. At this rate a colossal sum is soon realized. Sir Richard has certainly made more money at the bar than any man of his time, and few have ever equalled him. He is employed in almost all great mercantile and patent cases where it is generally immaterial how much is spent on counsel's fees."-London Legal Letter: Dec., 1894, Green Bag.

EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE, LOUISIANA.

(1845

Appointed February, 1894, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by President Cleveland, to succeed Mr. Justice Blatchford. Born in November, 1845, on his father's plantation in the parish of Lafourche, Louisiana. His grandfather, James, was a judge of Western Louisiana in the early part of the century, and his father, Edward Douglass, was a Tennesseean and a lawyer, who served Louisiana ten years as Congressman and four years as Governor. He was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, Georgetown College, D. C., and the Jesuits' College, New Orleans. He served at nineteen in the Confederate army; studied law with the late Chief Justice Edward Bermudez, of the Louisiana Supreme Court, was admitted in 1868, served as State Senator, 1874-1878, and was appointed, 1878, an Associate Justice of the State Supreme bench, where he served two years. He was elected, in 1888, to the United States Senate, where his term of office would have expired in 1897.