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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. Wilfred Bolster, .... Editor-in-Chief. Guy Cunningham, Herbert H. Darling, Treasurer. David T. Dickinson, vStephen A. Foster, P'rancis C. Huntington, Ralph A. Kellogg, James M. Newell, Oliver Prescott, Jr., Ezra R. Thayer, Frank B.Williams, George E. Wright. The next Number of the Review^ vv^ill appear in October. The appointment of the Hon. Jeremiah Smith to the Story profes- sorship must be a cause of satisfaction to all friends of the Law School. Judge Smith comes of an old and well-known New England family ; his father, who was Chief Justice and Governor of New Hampshire, and the intimate friend of such men as Fisher Ames and Daniel Web- ster, was one of the most distinguished men in the history of his State. Judge Smith was born in 1837, g^'aduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1856, and then studied law, spending a year at the Harvard Law School. In 1867, at the age of thirty, and only six years after leav- ing the Law School, he was appointeda justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. This position he resigned in 1874 on account of ill-health, and he has since practiced law at Dover. He has been a member of the examining committee for admission to the New Hampshire bar, and has lately published for the use of students an admirable list of cases selected from the reports of that State. Judge Smith's very interesting address on the legal profession, recently deliv- ered at the college conference, is fresh in the recollection of all who heard it. Mr. Samuel Williston has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Law School. Mr. Williston graduated at Harvard College in 1882 and at the Law School in 1888. In that year he won the Harvard Law School Association prize by an essay on the " History of the Law of Business Corporations before 1800," ^and on graduation he was chosen to represent his class in the Commencement exercises. He was private secretary to Mr. Justice Gray, of the United States Supreme Court, in the following year, and since then he has practised law in Boston in connection with the firm of Hyde, Dickinson, and Howe. A COURSE of lectures on the Law of Damages, by Mr. Joseph Henry Beale, a graduate of Harvard in 1882 and of the Law School 1887, is also announced for next year. Mr. Beale has been for some time assisting in the preparation of a new edition of Sedg^wick's Measure of Damages, and is the author of an article on " Tickets" in I Harvard Law Review, 17, which has attracted much attention. This essay may be found in 2 Harv. L. Rev. 105, 149.