The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-17

North Carolina, he had deserted his
white people in their danger ana dls-
tress, sadness and poverty, ana unlteo
with the Black Republican gang, con-
less | never again esteemed MN OF
confided in him as | had done. lie was
an able man. He was SlhSuldily
adroit, cunning of fence, full of sub
tlety and resource, ingenious plausi-
bic. keen of vision, and not without
wit and sarcasm. He was a capltal
pleader most artful and self-contaln-
ed, with what the late Hon. Hugh Wad-
dell said of him or of another lawyer
at the same bar, IAN affidavit lace.
He had a striking countencance, ana
as a great English portrait painter
said of a very fine portrait he had
painted of him, when l praised 1t ana
said he looked like a Presbyterian Ill
vine, ito me it is a perfect Jesultlcal
| face" AS a pleader at the Granville
bar he had not many equals ana pos
| SIbly not more than two or three Su-
! periors-Badger, Bragg and ii. w.
Miller. Mind you, | am no lawyer ana
am merely giving Il layman's impress
sion formed more than forty-five years
| ago. / wish to tell of a case that was
tried in Granville court, and probably
! about 1853 or ga. 1t was an import
ant case, and occupied two days. There
were four lawyers on either side, ana
every man of the eight was lawyer
of decided ability and gifts as speak
| er. 1t came to pass that all spoke,
| and Readc' was the last. l cannot
make it plain as a lawyer could, and
| | write after some half a century. AS
| | recall it, the three associates OF
Reade had pursued the same line OF
argument, in the sense that they were
agreed and supplemented each other.
| ! do not say that it is correct to SO
state ii, but you can guess at my mean
| ing however crude and obscure the
| performance. The opposition had
pressed their case in agreement also.
Mr.. Reade arose and surprised both
sides, the Judge jury and bystanders
also He showed aside completely all
his associates had been urging
started from a totally different stand
| ing-point, introduced q hypothetical
| theory, and with great art and force
| enlarged, pressed upon the jury the
| truthfulneSs and correctness and JUS
tice of his theory and argument, and
won the case. A good lawyer may
see enough possibly in that way Of
| putting it to appreciate the boldness,
| daring, ingenuity, and success of the
, artful pleader
| The great book reading and book
| producing nation on the globe is the
! German. The United States that so
i largely overdo the publishing of
books, particularly of the cheap, or
binary kind, are far behind Germany.
Reliable statistics show this. There
are five times the number of books
| published in Germany to every mil
! lion of people as there are published
| in the United States. In the German
! Empire the average book of the mil
| lion of people in each year is placed
! at 354 volumes. In this country the
number is ST. The periodical business
Lis much larger in the United States.
ut is estimated that the number is
not less than $40. Take the average of
| their pages annually, and the esti-
| mate is that each magazine equals in
year four books. The New York
saturday Review some months ago
stated that the SO periodicals are
a rough equivalent of some 2,O40
| books, or, in mere quantity, some six
/ times the number of bookspublished
| to. each million of people in the. Ger
man Empire So while Germany
/ leads all nations, in books. our own
! country leads jim the printing of peri
/ Odicals of all grades from the poorest
| to a very few that rank high. if not OF
| the best In this country the picto-
| rails are ahead. but there is but little,
if any to equal the famous London
| weeklies and the leading Reviews,
| There are no London Spectator. Eco
nomist, Saturday Review, Atheneaum,
| the Speaker, the Academy, and one OF
| two others perhaps, and no Reviews
equalling the London Quarterly, the