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Harvard Law Review. Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.50 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUMBER. Editorial Board, Hugh W. Ogden, Editor-in-Chief. Justin D. Bowersock, Treasurer. Sydney M. Ballou, Edward K. Hall, Charles L. Barlow, James P. Hall, Douglas Campbell, Logan Hay, Robert Cushman, Archibald C. Matteson, David A. Ellis, Charles B. Sears, Louis A. Frothingham, Henry Ware. Albert K. Gerald, The Editors of the Harvard Law Review gladly surrender this number to the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the coming of Dean Langdell to the chair of a professor at the Harvard Law School. There is no need that we should undertake to express the significance of that event. It is enough to say that it led to immediate and most important changes in the administration of the School, and to the appli- cation here of new principles and methods which have stood the test of time and have been widely adopted elsewhere ; and that it has brought to the School not only a great raising of its standards, but also an unex- ampled prosperity. All honor to him whose influence has been so great in bringing about these happy results. On June 28th next, the day before Commencement, the Harvard Law School Association will celebrate this interesting event by an address in Sanders Theatre by Sir Frederick Pollock, I^L.D., of London, and by a dinner for the members of the Association at Massachusetts Hall. It is hoped and believed that the occasion will draw to Cambridge a great gathering of the friends and graduates of the School. This will not be Sir Frederick Pollock's first visit to our country, but it will, we believe, be the first occasion when he has spoken here in pub- lic. Of his early triumphs at Cambridge, where he was first Chancellor's medallist, in 1867, and of his place as a scholar, there is not room now to speak. Of his services to the legal profession as the founder and editor of the English Law Quarterly Review, as Professor of Law at Oxford and in the Inns of Court, as the Tagore Lecturer in Calcutta, as the author of valued contributions to the science of Jurisprudence, and es- pecially to the law of Contracts, Torts, Property, Partnership and Sales, we need not speak. Of his last, but not least important work, in co- operation with Professor Maitland of the English Cambridge, namely, a " History of the English Law," in two volumes, a learned and most valuable book, only just published, it maybe that our readers are not so generally aware. And let us not fail to recall Sir Frederick's accomplishments as a poet, and his delightful " Leading Cases Done into English, by an Apprentice of Lincoln's Inn," a work dear to the hearts of law students. Sir Frederick Pollock's presence will give distinction to our celebration. He will be heartily welcomed.