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Harvard Law Review. Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.50 PER ANNU.VI 35 CENTS PER NUMBER. Editorial Board, Hugh W. Ogden, Editor-in-Chief. Justin D. Bowersock, Treasurer. Douglas Campbell, Livingston HAxM, Edward R. Coffin, Logan Hay, Robert Cushman, Wiilliam H. S. Kollmyer, Robert G. Dodge, Herbert C. Lakin, Louis A. Frothingham, Arthur M. Marsh, Edward K. Hall, Archibald C. Matteson, James P. Hall, Henry Ware. It is good news, and authentic, that the printing of the Year Books is to be resumed. The work of supplementing and filling the gaps in the old Year Books had been carried on as far as the 15th Edw. III. in 1891. For some unexplained reason nothing has appeared since. But now Mr. Pike is to be allowed to resume his admirable work of editing ; and it may be hoped that it will not be stopped again until we have not only the gaps all filled in the old books, but an edition of the black-letter volumes themselves which is worthy of their new companions. On November 27 last, a local historical society in Boston celebrated by an address at the Old South Church the six hundredth anniversary of the British Parliament summoned by Edward I. It is strange that the anni- versary of an event of such importance in the history of popular government should have been so little recognized. The oration in Boston was by A. C. Goodell, Jr., the learned editor of the Province Laws. One hazards little in guessing that the chairman of the committee of arrangements for the Boston celebration, Prof. M. M. Bigelow, distinguished for many contributions to historical and legal knowledge, was the moving cause in this event. The exercises were introduced by a neat and appreciative short address by him. The address on Legal Education by the Lord Chief Justice of England, delivered in Lincoln's Inn Hall at the request of the Council of Legal Edu- cation on October 28 last, is a paper of first rate importance. It confesses to the full, with illustrations, the extremely poor condition of English legal education, as contrasted with what is found on the Continent and in this country, and urges the establishing of a great and worthy school of law. "Is it," asks Lord Russell in his closing words, "an idle dream to hope that even in our day and generation there may here arise a great school of law worthy of our time, — worthy of one of the first and noblest of human