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brated lawyers in the country. Fortunate is Dr. Maurice J. Lewi is one of the best the student who can browse in his superb known and most reputable of the younger law library of sixteen thousand volumes, physicians of Albany, and fills his important every one of which bears the pencil-marks chair with learning and grace. He has lec of his appalling industry and research. tured on this topic here for six years. These two remarkable men are not only Judge Judson S. Landon, of the Supreme willing but glad to shed the light of their Court, who has for some years lectured in talents in the lecture-rooms of the old Al the collegiate department of Union Univer bany Law School. Mr. Moak's lectures on sity on Constitutional Law, has engaged to

the selection, merits, deliver a course on and use of books, and that subject annually the history, organiza in the Law School. tion, and jurisdiction The substance of his of the Courts of Eng lectures has been re land and the United cently published in a States, are quite volume entitled " The unique and very in Constitutional His teresting. tory and Government Mr. Charles T. F. of the United States," Spoor, who has lec which has met with tured in the Law high commendation School for fourteen from distinguished years, is an expert in sources. Judge Lan Code learning and don is one of the most practice, and on the scholarly men on the law of Real Estate a bench of this State, worthy successor to and has taste and Mr. Henry S. McCall, talent for instruction. who for many years For several years he was the excellent in was president pro tem structor on that sub pore of Union Univer ject. Mr. Spoor is sity, meeting with ex cellent success, and he about forty-three years MATTHEW HALE. still is president of the of age, a graduate of Williams College of Board of Trustees. the class of 1865, and is a popular and suc It will be seen that most of the instructors cessful instructor as well as a sound and are men of long and varied professional ac judicious lawyer. tivity, — not mere theorists or scholastics, but Mr. James W. Eaton, Jr., a recent addition accustomed to the ways of the world and of to the faculty of the School, is thirty-three courts, intimately acquainted with human years of age, a graduate of Yale in the class nature, and stored with valuable and inter of 1879, and is favorably known to the pro esting experiences and recollections. Each fession by his excellent edition of Reeve's has his favorite method of imparting in struction. By written and extemporaneous Domestic Relations. He has a bright intel lectures, recitations from text-books, exam lect, an energetic temperament, and an in cisive manner, and has already justified the inations on leading cases and moot-courts, expectations of the Faculty as a popular and the student is made acquainted with the principles of the law and the method of efficient lecturer. 21