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odicals. His work on " Fixtures " is the standard treatise upon that subject. His "Leading and Select Cases on the Disabil ities incident to Infancy, Coverture, Idiocy, etc., with Notes," is the chief repository of the learning upon that branch of the law. He has edited " Evans on Principal and Agent " and " Lindley on Partnership." He

re-reported and edited a number of the Illi nois Reports, and co operated in the prep aration of a " Digested Index to the Minne sota Reports." He has edited " Blackwell on Tax Titles " and "Washburn on Crim inal Law," and pre pared a series of three volumes, entitled "Ewell's Essentials of the Law." Vol. I. con tains the essentials of Blackstone, Vol. II. the essentials of Plead ing, Contracts, and Equity; Vol. III. the essentialsof Evidence, Torts, and Real Prop erty. His most re cent work is " Ewell's Medical Jurispru dence." HENRY Professor Ewell be came connected with the school in 1877, and instructs almost wholly in the Junior Class. So far as the writer is able to judge, he does not believe that Professor Ewell has a superior in his sphere. He is persistent, exceedingly ener getic, and absolutely relentless in his de termination to impart to his students the capacity to define with entire accuracy the fundamental principles of the law. The writer cannot conceive that any one could accomplish such a task more nearly than does Professor Ewell. He is yet young, and the record of his deeds, though

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ample for a whole life, argues well for his future. Hon. William W. Farwell, a graduate of Hamilton College in 1837, an ex-Chancellor in Cook County, 111., has taught Equity Ju risprudence, Equity Pleading and Practice, since 1880. For many years before he be came a Chancellor, he had been engaged in an extensive practice at the Chicago Bar. His professional and judicial life qualified him in a very high de gree for the discharge of his duties in the Law School. His gen eral reading has been wide. Judge Farwell has secured from every class of students that respect which is due to one of large ex perience, high moral character, and ripe learning. Van Buren Denslow, LL.D., was an instructor in this school from 1870 to 1877. He is a finished scholar, with philoso phic tendencies. The New York " Nation," vol. xlvii. p. 236, re BOOTH. viewing his recent work entitled " Prin ciples of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government, and Industry," says that "upon the whole we can sincerely commend this volume to our readers as containing the very best exposition of protectionism, its theory and its facts, its animus and its methods, that is now in existence or that is likely to be hereafter produced." This school for some time had the ser vices of the Hon. John A. Jameson, LL.D., who was born in 1824 in Vermont, and was graduated at Vermont University in 1846. He sat upon the bench of the Superior