The justice of the compliment paid by judge Holmes in his recent lecture to Professor Langdell, the Dean of the Law School, is shown by the following significant fact brought to our attention by the last Nation. Mr. Gerard B. Finch, the new law lecturer at Cambridge, England, has adopted Prof. Langdell's method of lecturing by cases. In his inaugural address he spoke in hearty terms of this method, and of the general excellence of the Harvard Law School. A short extract from this address will be of interest to our readers.

"During my stay in Boston last spring, men engaged in legal practice spoke to me of the great value of the law-teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often heard it said that the course at Harvard was equal to ten years' actual work; that he was then incredulous, but that after being in practice for ten years he came to know it as a fact."

That this solid testimony is deserved all who ever have been connected with the Law School will gladly testify. With those who contemplate studying law; and are undecided as to the best school, this recommendation will have much weight.