A Book About Lawyers

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. John F. Trow & Son, Printers, 205-213 East 12th St., New York. CONTENTS. I. Ladies in Law Colleges II. The Last of the Ladies III. York House and Powis House IV. Lincoln's Inn Fields V. The Old Law Quarter VI. A Lottery VII. Good Queen Bess VIII. Rejected Addresses IX. "Cicero" upon His Trial X. Brothers in Trouble XI. Early Marriages XII. Fees to Counsel XIII. Retainers, General and Special XIV. Judicial Corruption XV. Gifts and Sales XVI. A Rod Pickled by William Cole XVII. Chief Justice Popham XVIII. Judicial Salaries XIX. Bright and Sad XX. Millinery XXI. Wigs XXII. Bands and Collars XXIII. Bags and Gowns XXIV. Hats XXV. The Piano in Chambers XXVI. The Battle of the Organs XXVII. The Thickness in the Throat XXVIII. Actors at The Bar XXIX. " The Play's The Thing " XXX. The River and the Strand by Torchlight XXXI. Anti-Prynne XXXII. An Empty Grate XXXIII. Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery XXXIV. Lawyers and Gentlemen XXXV. Law-French and Law-Latin XXXVI. Student Life in Old Time XXXVII. Readers and Mootmen XXXVIII. Pupils in Chambers XXXIX. Wit of Lawyers XL. Humorous Stories XLI. Wits in 'silk' and Punsters in 'ermine' XLII. Witnesses XLIII. Circuiteers XLIV. Lawyers and Saints PART IX. AT HOME: IN COURT: AND IN SOCIETY. XLV. Lawyers at their Own Tables XLVI. Wine XLVII. Law and Literature HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS. LADIES IN LAW COLLEGES. A law-student of the present day finds it difficult to realize the brightness and domestic decency which characterized the Inns of Court in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Under existing circumstances, women of character and social position avoid the gardens and terraces of Gray's Inn and the Temple. Attended by men, or protected by circumstances that guard them from impertinence and scandal, gentlewomen can without discomfort pass and repass the walls of our legal colleges; but in most cases a lady enters them under conditions that announce even to casual passers the object of her visit. In her carriage, during the later hours of the day, a barrister's wife may drive down the Middle Temple Lane, or through the gate of Lincoln's Inn, and wait in King's Bench Walk or New Square, until her husband, putting aside clients and papers, joins her for the homeward drive. But…