New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-24

yea. Well let the young practitioner nay re-
his way made plair for him, try u on tne +neN'
occasion Il was, and II often 10, the
Of Sir Charles Russell SO to make use Oh IneOiOu
both simple and familiar as to derive hrol. ~
the most briniant results. II was by the variety
and eyer-chanGing ingenuity of conunulhs
cot nevep the same procession OF questions that
he extracted from Pigott at the END, WIN .,'e
same unfaiIng certainty as at the beginning 'ne
self-same self-contradictions.
If Won are in a position to watch SIT Oharies
Russelps face during these contests you WIN
perceive that he often wears mask; so"eVie
two masks. He has not the one resource "nion
seems sufficient TO the Attorney Generaf; inc ono
unvarying manner of CHEEKY confidence; fhe pnies-
matte self-confidence which Sir Richard assumes
as SO much armor Over his sensitive lace CA
preston follows expression not Away nor perhspS
often, answering to the real mood In whlcn no
approaches his witness but reproducing 10 the eye
of the individual in the box the mood which he
Is desired to believe in for the time being. AS
sat on Sir Charless left, little behind MN,
could see him turn every now and then TO his
learned friend, Mr. Lockwood or Mr. Reid, or
Mr. Asouith. The left side of his face denoted
what he wished TO convey 20 his colleagues, while
the right side, still In the witnesses view. con-
tinued to impress upon his trustful nature the
same belief q the same mood as of FIRST. Inc
whole countenance is curiously flexible. The emo
tions have q more direct action than usual upon
the muscles The eyes are both sympsthetc ana
searching, the mouth is flexible, the long, stlghe
nose is flexible; What Sir Charles RusselPs nose
is capable Of expressing is past description. Set
in his barrfster's wig as in frame, 10 looks
out upon the world from large pale blue, In
quiring eyes, like the portrait OF some great
iurist of the great days Of the English baf. laKe
away the wig and bands, strip him Of his silk
robe-a process to which he would strongly OBJ
iect--array him in the ordinary costume OF mod
ezn civilization meet him in society, listen to the
fluent and accurate talk, sometimes argumenta-
tive always full, you will think him as modern
as anybody, man Of the world as well as OF
affairs, rather too much used 10 having his own
way, not at oil the spoiled child of fortune, but
the architect of his own fortune. On the whole,
enc of the most interesting and strenuous per-
sonalities now to be met and within such lin
It's as the law imposes upon those who accept
the law as mistress man Of genius also.
Sir Charles Russelrs fame as a cross-examiner
seems In America O little TO overshadow that
fame as an allround lawyer which really belongs
to him. His position Is perfectly understood In
England, both by the legal profession and the
public. There is no place where mere brilliancy
is less valued, perhaps Jess understood, than at
the English bar; nor is it by brilliancy, whether
In cross-examination otherwise, that Sir Charles
has made his reputation. II he is unequaIed
before jury, he is certainly unsurpassed before
the Judges sitting in Court of Appeal and caring
for nothing but law ami the dry light OF legal
reason. He has been in a many q sensational
cause; causes Of libel, of divorce, and the like.
But he laid the foundation of his renown in
work of very different kind, in commercial
causes and in purely legal arguments with no
witness to dissect and jury to dazzle or puzzle
In business Of that kind he has two or three
rivals at the common INV bar--Sir Richard Web
ster, Sir Henry James, hardly know who else
But give him great case, social or political, in
which human passions are deeply stirred, and he
stands alone. G.WS