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"Why may not this be a lawyer's skull? Why does he suffer this rude knave to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action for battery?" THE miniature effigy of a town-crier, with a little placard on his bell, inscribed "Lost-a Lawyer's conscience!" was a favorite toy for children not many years ago; and, about the same time, a song was in vogue, warbled by a whole generation of young misses, "all about the L-A-W," in which that venerable profession was made the subject of a warning chant, whose dolorous refrain, doubtless, yet lingers in many an ear. Thus early is law associated with uncertainty and shamelessness; Messrs. Roe and Doe become the most dreaded of apocryphal characters; red-tape the clew of an endless labyrinth; Justice Shallow, with all his imbecility, a dangerous personage, and human beings, even a friend, transformed by the mysterious perspective of this anomalous element to a "party." The most popular of modern novelists have found these associations sufficiently universal to yield good material in "dead suitors broken, heart and soul, on the wheel of chancery;" and Flite, Gridley, and Rick, are fresh and permanent scare-crows in the harvest-field of the law.. From the Mosaic code, enrolled on tables of stone, to the convention which inaugurated that of the modern conqueror of Europe, law has been a VOL. VIII.-29 Hamlet. field for the noblest triumphs and most gross perversions of the human intellect. No profession offers such extremes of glory and shame. From the most wretched sophistry to the grandest inference, from a quibble to a principle, from the august minister of justice, to the low pettifogger, how great the distance; yet all are included within a common pale. In every social circle and family group, there is an oracle-some individual whose age, wit, or force of character gives an intellectual ascendancy-and there are always Bunsbys to 66 give an opinion" among the ignorant, to which the others spontaneously defer; and thus instinctively arises the lawgiver, sometimes ruling with the rude dogmatism of Dr. Johnson, and at others, through the humorous good sense of Sydney Smith, or the endearing tact of Madame Recamier. These authorities, in the sphere of opinion and companionship, indicate how natural to human society is a recognized head, whence emanates that controlling influence to which we give the name of law. Like every other element of life, this loses somewhat of its native beauty, when organized and made professional. To every vocation there belong masterspirits who have established precedents, |