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As to the courses of lectures in law, the interest of the student must be aroused. outcome was different. An experience of a Young men come to the study of the law few weeks showed that there was a clear from a great variety of motives, and these public desire for instruction in law, and it are often mixed. Some choose it as an was resolved by the authorities that a two avenue to wealth; others to political prefer years' course should be established; and from ment; others because business is stagnant, that time to the present moment there has and because it is better to have some occu pation rather than to remain idle; others

been no lack of students. still, because their fathers recommend or The methods of instruction then estab direct it; and others, lished have continued, finally, because the in substance, down to ladies of their choice the present time, with insist upon it as a such enlargements condition precedent to and modifications as the relief for which experience has shown they sue. In more to be beneficial. than one instance the The central idea in writer has been made instruction has always aware of this last re been this : The stu quirement, stated in dent is assigned daily a certain portion of the imperative mood, an approved text-book with the further con for his reading prior dition that the final to listening to expo examination shall be sitions of the subject most creditable. He involved. To make is happy to add that the assignment effec the youths won the tive, he is asked ques prize in the contest tions upon the topic, nobler than the Olym mainly to make it cer pian games. Few pur tain that he has stud sue the study of the ied the subject and law in the jubilant has in a measure com spirit of Lord Coke, HAMILTON KISH. prehended it, and is and simply follow " the thus in a position to gladsome light of jur listen with advantage to expositions. 'This isprudence; " for, let it shine as it may, there is a prime element in legal as well as other are too many brambles and thickets about it instruction, since experience shows that the to make the distant and obscured light at first mere reading of lectures to students upon attractive. Even when the better students ap an unfamiliar subject is of but little value, proach the study of the law, they are frequently and that the impressions made are eva in a condition of benighted perplexity. They nescent. The expositions are for the most are confronted by an uncouth and unknown part oral and in familiar language. Perti language, yet in the highest degree precise nent illustrations are resorted to, and every in its meaning. They are apt to transfer the available means adopted to awaken attention popular meaning of words to those used in and arouse interest, as a stimulus to future the technical sense. In every direction they research or inquiry. Nothing is more cer need an earnest and determined leader who tain than that, in order to make progress, the will not merely inform, but also encourage and