Dedicated to Senior Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, "greatest American jurist," at the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, the March number of the Harvard Law Review will appear today. The issue includes tributes and essays about Justice Holmes by leading judges of England and the United States, as well as the usual sections devoted to comments on recent decisions and specialized branches of law.

Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Sankey, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, W. A. Jowett, Attorney General of Great Britain, Benjamin N. Cordoza, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Frederick Pollock, eminent English jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey's words on behalf of the English Judiciary are a case in point when he proclaims: "No American judge of modern times is more widely known or more deeply venerated."

"Holmes: the Historian," by T. F. Plucknett, of the faculty of the Harvard Law School, treats the achievements of the great judge in legal history, with especial reference to his monumental work on the English common law. Dean Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School assumes another point of view in his article entitled: "The Call for a Realist Jurisprudence."

In addition to the tributes and essays, a number of the early unsigned writings of Holmes, which appeared almost 60 years ago, have been reprinted in this issue.

"It is the crowning glory of this Law School that it has kindled in many a heart an inextinguishable fire." These words were delivered by Holmes in 1886 in a speech before the Harvard Law School Association. In the 46 years since then, the spirit of mutual good feeling between the great judge and the Harvard Law School has never diminished. As a token, therefore, of admiration, Justice Holmes was presented a special bound copy of the Law Review last Sunday on his birthday.

Born in 1841, Holmes attended Harvard College for four years, graduating in 1861. He served three years in the Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War, and was wounded three times before being discharged with the rank of captain in 1864. Returning to Harvard. Holmes graduated from the Law School in 1866 and began his distinguished career as a jurist when he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar the following year. During the next fifteen years Holmes practiced and taught law at Harvard, delivering his famous lecture on common law at Lowell Institute in 1880.

In 1882 he became associate justice and 17 years later chief justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, serving until 1902 when he was appointed associate justice in the Supreme Court. He has served in this capacity ever since his unflagging energy and untiring industry distinguishing him even in his advanced years. These are the salient facts in the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 scholar, historian, lawyer, professor, judge, "dean of American jurists," in whose honor the current issue of the Harvard Law Review is written.The Hopkinson portrait of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 which was presented to the Law School last year and is now hanging in Langdell Hall. The Harvard Law Review is today issuing its regular number which is dedicated to Mr. Justice Holmes in honor of his ninetieth birthday, which he celebrated last Sunday. At that time Justice Holmes was heard over a nation-wide radio network from Washington where many of the notables of American legal and political life had gathered to pay tribute to him.