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LEEDS 446 LEGAL EDUCATION LEEDS, a manufacturing town of Eng- land, in Yorkshire, on the river Aire, which here becomes navigable and is crossed by eight bridges. The lieeds and Liverpool Canal communicates with the Aire, which again gives water communi- cation with Hull, etc. The town extends for about 7% miles from E. to W. and about 7 from N. to S. Among the most conspicuous of the public buildings is the town hall, a massive stone building of the Corinthian order, considered one of the finest municipal buildings in the kingdom. The chief educational institu- tion is the Yorkshire College for science, technology, and medicine, affiliated to the Victoria University, Manchester. Leeds possesses a public park of 300 acres. Leeds has been for generations the chief seat of the woolen manufacture of York- shire. In the wholesale clothing trade several thousand hands are employed, as also in steel works, iron foundries, rolling mills, tool and machine factories. The boot and shoe factories, the leather trade, and the cloth-cap trade also employ large numbers of men and women, and there are extensive color printing works, to- bacco manufactories, chemical and glass works, works for making drainage pipes, fire-bricks, terra cotta, pottery, etc. Nearly 100 collieries are worked in the district. The history of Leeds extends over more than 1,200 years, the town be- ing mentioned under the name of Loid or Loidis by the Venerable Bede as the capital of a small British kingdom about 616. In the neighborhood is the fine ruin of Kirkstall Abbey. Pop. (1917) 417,051. LEETJV/ARDEIT (la^var-den), capital of the Dutch province of Friesland, on the Harlingen and Groningen Canal, 113 miles from Utrecht. It contains hand- some law courts and town hall, has an ancient palace of the Prince of Orange, a library with valuable archives, and 12 churches. Linen fabrics, mirrors, piano- fortes, and wagons are manufactured. Leeuwarden is one of the largest fruit and cattle markets in Holland, and does considerable trade in agricultural pro- duce, groceries, wine, and brandy. In the 13th century it was situated on an arm of the sea, which subsequently sanded up. Pop. about 34,000. LEEUWIN, CAPE (la'vin), the S. W. corner of Australia, notable on account of the tempestuous weather usually en- countered there. LEEWARD ISLANDS, the W. section ot the Lesser Antilles (so called in dis- tinction from the Windward Islands with reference to the trade winds). Of the whole group Guadalupe, Martinique, St. Bartholomew, and part of St. Martin be- long to France; St. Eustatius, Saba, and part of St. Martin to Holland; and the Virgin Islands to the United States. Those which belong to Great Britain were grouped together in one federal col- ony in 1871, and consist of the five presi- dencies of Antigua (with Barbuda and Redonda), Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis (with Anguilla), Dominica, and the Virgin Islands. The Leeward Islands confederation has representative govern- ment, with a governor, executive, and Federal Legislative Council, though each presidency possesses its own constitution. The capital and seat of government of the Leeward Islands is St. John, Antigua. The chief products are sugar and molasses. LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (luh fanii' or lef'a-nu), an Irish journal- ist and novelist; born in Dubhn, Ireland, Aug. 28, 1814. Having graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, he joined (1837) the staff of the "Dublin University Maga- zine," becoming editor and proprietor. He first won fame with the Irish ballads, "Phaudbrig Croohore" and "Shamus O'Brien." Among modern Irish novelists he stands next in popularity to Charles Lever. "The House by the Churchyard" (1863); "Uncle Silas" (1864); "Guy Deverell" (1865); "The Tenants of Malory" (1867); "The Wyvern Mystery" (1869); "In a Glass Darkly" (1872). He died in Dublin, Feb. 7, 1873. LEGACY, anything which is handed or passed down from an ancestor or pre- decessor. LEGAL EDUCATION, education for the practice of the law. It takes on two chief forms : education in the office of an established practitioner; and education in a law school. The first method is by far the older, and is still continued; the second is rapidly coming to prevail, and is greatly superior. The first is largely the method of the apprentice ; and is sub- ject to the disadvantages of disorderli- ness in form, narrowness in content, and superficiality in result. The second rep- resents real educational conditions, ways, means, and results. Of the first and earlier method little need be said: the present article is devoted to the second method, — legal education through the law school. In point of time the earliest American law school was established in the little, historic town of Litchfield, Connecticut, in the historic year of 1784. Its founder was the able lawyer and outstanding jurist of his time. Tapping Reeve. It maintained a high record for thirty-five