+ + Nation. 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.
“One man in a thousand is a fishing enthusiast. But the lay brother enjoyed the reading immensely, so, in all probability, will the nine hundred and ninety-nine.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w. N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.
Hollams, Sir John. Jottings of an old solicitor. **$3. Dutton.
Reminiscences which are a record “of a full, prosperous, happy, and honourable life, of strenuous years rewarded by success. But it is much more. It is a history, unpretentious, truthful, and vivid, of the inner working of English law during more than a half a century. The first pages introduce one to a state of things, legal and social, which has long passed away; to a London with only one railway open, that to Greenwich; to days before the penny post, when letters from Kent cost seven-pence, with double postage if there was an enclosure; when the invariable price of the best oysters was sixpence a dozen and the maximum price for a cigar was threepence.” (Lond. Times.)
“His book is full of interest.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 638. My. 36. 550w.
“There is much that will appeal to American lawyers and law students who are interested in law as a science, particularly as regards changes in law procedure and law reform during the last sixty years.”
+ Ind. 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 220w.