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Our Contributors. RUSSELL W. TAFT, the son of former Chief Justice Taft of Ver mont, who has prepared our sketch of Judge Tyler for this issue, is in practice in Burlington, Vermont. He has for some time been one of our regular contributors. T. DABNEY MARSHALL is a graduate of the University of Missis sippi in practice in Vicksburg. He has been a member of the Mississippi legislature and was a member of the Code and Judiciary Committees which largely established the Mississippi annotated code of 1892. He has had editorial experience, and has published a number of short stories and some verses, and has contributed to other legal periodicals. ALBION W. TOURGEE was born at Yilliamsfield, Ohio, in 1838. He entered Rochester University but left to enlist with the first call for troops. He received several severe wounds during the course of the war from the effects of which he never entirely recovered. He studied law in the office of Judge Sherman at Ashtabula, Ohio, and at the close of the war practiced in Guilford County, North Carolina, where he was elected a judge of the Superior Court. He was a member of the constitutional convention under the reconstruction acts. After retiring from the bench he built up a profitable practice, but the success of his novels led him to remove to New York and devote himself to literary pursuits. He was appointed United States Consul at Bordeaux, France, and died there in 1905 from the effects of the wounds from which he had suffered forty-four years. The manuscript which we publish in this number was found among his papers after his death and was revised for publication by his wife. KRNKST BRUNCKKN is chief of the sociological department of the State Library of California at Sacramento. He has previously been a contributor to our magazine. We present in this number the third of JUDGE BLOUMT'S series of articles on the Philippines. This one is in a more serious vein than its predecessors, but we trust it will be no less interesting. W. F. DODD has for three years been connected with the law division of the Library of Congress. He is a student of political science and public law, and has devoted some attention to legal history. ROUERT C. SMITH, K. C., of the firm of Smith, Markey and Skinner, is one of the leading advocates of Canada, whose practice is largely before the Privy Council in London. He is a famous wit and story teller and a favorite at the banquets of our Bar associations. For the material for the article in this number he is indebted to Hon. Elbert Clements Killam, chairman of the commission. Mr. Killam, before occupying his present position, was a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada and is regarded as one of the best jurists Canada has produced.