The sun., 1900-12-30
NOrEs % IE0AI syENrs.


Jealous mI-tres. vet literature would have
lost much " thls warning had always hecn
hoedcd M ant Illustration 4. furnished
by tho "Oidter picta" Of Augustine BIrrsl
Y &, uf tho English bar. and going little
further back va may cltc Ten Thousand
n Year" and tho other yorks of snnucl War.
ron That fiction IL still nm attractive field
Of endcayor 90 m,rbots of the bnr il proycn
bv the recent publication of "N,ya. A story
OF lucntan. from, tho non of Wllinm Dudley
foulkr. thc veu-known civil s,ryicc re-
former 90 T. Putnam's souu Mr. Foulko
came Of Ncy YORK Quaker s,ock and was
graduated At Colu,nhI, CnlI,c, in iseo ot
the head of tls class lie studied law NJ
the same institution and rr,ctisod his rro-
fession here with e,cep,tonal .t,ccess for
10 young man. until hls marriage IN Indiana
led him to rcmoye to Richmond in TINT state
where for n time no occup,cd n iudlcial pcSi-
ton. His novel though romantic IN snirit.
4. based upon hi. own observations as a
traveller in Yucot,n and 1. ,,uructiye "A
well as entertaining
lawyer could make up a very interesting
library OF hon-professional works written
OF books Bacon would occunv the Crst rlacs
Scott might he Included as having b,en n
member of tho bar in Edinbur,h and Robert
Louis Stevenson. ne olso n Scottish har,istcr
But IL we omit ted those authors whose ca
reers were distlnctiyely literary. and chose
only the writer's whose main business I'm
life was the practice OF the law. our library
might still be one OF fair pronortions Works
which Immediately suggest themselves are
the Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" OF
Sir James Ftzjamcs STEPHEN; "Shakespenres
Legal Acquircmcnts" by Lord Campbell
man X Davis: Virgil In En- gllsh Vase
by Lord Justice Bowen and Lord Justice
Fry's Studies by the Way" TO which we
recently had occasion TO refer when it ap-
pearcd few weeks aro. Examples might
be multiplied to the extent OF scores and
probably hundreds They serve to show
that literary ability is not inconsistent with
legal distinction, in spite OF any dctum TO
tho contrary Robert Grant makes an ex-
cellent probats Judre in Massachusetts
,r,it, .tI' 's' We
hotwithstAnd'hs tAat nc "a very success
fGl writer Of stories. and the law books Of
Mr. T. 1 Sti,,son commend ,bensclves 10
,nI. - ., T.'..,'nn eouit'enu '"e,'e'F,s "
Nv 80 ','n '"o ',''''' VI ~ D. va
ing public
The removal of Asa Bird Gardiner from
the Office OF District Attorney OF the county
of New York was made by Gov Roosevelt
In the exercise of the authority conferred
upon him oy section OF ArtIc!e OF The
state constitution. ihat section relates
TO Snerins. clerks or counties ana registers
In counties having registers, ana ENDS 'lth
this proNSlon' The Governor may remove
any olNCer in this section mentioned, Witnln
the term Tor which he shan nave been eIeotcd:
giving 70 Snoh onicer copy or the charSos
against him ana an opportunity or beins
heard In hi' deience. Inc Constitution
Is silent as to the nature OF the charges when
shall be deemed to constitute sufficient cause
for removal; but 1t may be assumed t"at
they must be such az to amount to Official
miscondIct. There is no express require
ment, however, Of declaration by the Gov
ernor that the Officer whom he determines
TO remove hns been guilty Of any sueci1o
offence and indeed. the notification 20 Col.
Gardiner omt' 70 indlcate, either renerally
or particularly, the derelicton Of duty which
forms the ground ni reinoEaI' ~ merely
recites that II appears, l. the sau'iacti9n
Of the Governor that the u~efuIness OF the
said A-a fIrd Hariincr IN ,ne o,'l>e ol De
Is at an end
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IN" lu''V"h7 u'N"INeu upon 'n's oUHc"r
have been performed for upward OF FIVE
vears hv MIR Charles T. Lincoln Of Iittle
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'hheE' ''e W ''e 0''t"'''s i''NI''"h No'h-
nissioners Mr.. Lincoln was n Republican
dalaoata n the Con.titutionol Convontinn
~ 10. from tie Thirty.scrnnd Scnnte Dis.
,rict and attracted 80 rnuch attaution Lv
his Industry and ability in that body that no
was subsequently appointed q member of
,hro,,gb 10 Observation-Disclosures ~ Nr G1no,o
the President of the Constitutional Convcn-
ton, and Mr.. Root. who was chairman OF the
ouu'c'ar' '''n'"'''oc.
We haya received from tho Regents Of the
r-rivor.itv n naunble, of ioS nopes sr,i,loJ