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Harvard Law Review. Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SU3SCRIPTI0N PRI3E, $2 50 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUMBER , Editorial Board. Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Editor-in-Chief. Charles Walcott, Treasurer. Edward B. Adams, Alex D. Salinger, John A. Blanchard. Charles B. Sears, Justin D. Bowersock, John S. Sheppard, Jr., Richard W. Hale, Arthur W. Spruance, Billings L. Hand, Frank B. Williams, James L. Putnam, John S. Woodruff. Herbert A. Rice, The I^w School. — Since the note on the " Law Library " in the last number of the Review was written, a catalogue has been found in the General Library at Gore Hall, which was published in 1826, seven years earlier than the fiist official edition compiled by Mr. Sumner. It is a pamphlet of twenty-five pages. In it are the following notes, in the handwriting of a former librarian of Harvard College, the late Mr. John L. Sibley : — "This was the first catalogue of the Law Library ever published. It was prepared by John B. Hill and William G. Stearns [then members of the school]. The expense was not borne by the Faculty or Corporation. The students wanted a catalogue, and this was prepared and sold among themselves. "The books marked with a star belonged to Professor Stearns, but were put with the Law Library, and used by the students. Those marked with the dagger belonged to the College Library, and were kept in the Col- lege Library. Professor Stearns's books were subsequently withdrawn." This catalogue contains about six hundred titles, comprising a little over thirteen hundred volumes. Deducting the books belonging to the College Library and to Professor Stearns, there remain about eight hun- dred volumes in the actual possession of the Law Library at this early date. In October, 1832, a portion of the present Dane Hall was completed, and in that month the Law School commenced to occupy its new quar- ters. The library was accordingly removed from College House to the new building. In 1845, Dane Hall was greatly enlarged, in consequence of the rapidly increasing numbers of the school. The College House, above mentioned, was not the present structure, and it is described in the Life of Judge Story as a very old, low-studded, wooden building, which had been long inhabited by the college students, and went by the name of First College House. The two rooms appropriated to the Law School were in the second story of this house.