; Croake James's

    Curiosities of Law

   ; F. R. O'Flanagan's

    The Irish Bar

   ; and A. Engelbach's comprehensive and entertaining

    Anecdotes of the Bench and Bar

   . I am further indebted to Sir James Balfour Paul, Lyon King of Arms, for permission to include "The Circuiteer's Lament," from the privately printed volume

    Ballads of the Bench and Bar

   , and to the editor of the

    Edinburgh Evening Dispatch

   for a number of the more recent anecdotes in the Scottish chapters of the book.

   GEO. A. MORTON.

   Mr. Justice Darling, whose witty remarks from the Bench are so much appreciated by his audiences in Court, and, it is rumoured, are not always received with approval by his brother judges, says, in his amusing book

    Scintillæ Juris

   :

   "It is a common error to suppose that our law has no sense of humour, because for the most part the judges who expound it have none."

   But law is, after all, a serious business—at any rate for the litigants—and it would appear also for the attorneys, for while witticisms of the Bench and Bar abound, very few are recorded of the attorney and his client. "Law is law" wrote the satirist who decided not to adopt it as a profession. "Law is like a country dance; people are led up and down in it till they are tired. Law is like a book of surgery—there are a great many terrible cases in it. It is also like physic—they who take least of it are 

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