"Well Answered"

In Chicago, the trial of Leopold and Loeb is over; and the fate of the youthful slayers rests with Judge Caverly, who has announced that he will give his decision on Sept. 10.

The closing hours in court were as replete with dramatic clashes between opposing counsel, and counsel and court as the first day. "Clarence Darrow [defense lawyer] speaks about not heeding the voice of the mob," said State's Attorney Crowe. "Well, they haven't heard the cry of the mob yet, because they have been well protected. But if they don't get what they deserve in this trial, I am not so sure they won't hear the cry of the mob!" Judge Caverly ordered this statement stricken from the record, "as being a cowardly and dastardly assault upon the integrity of this court."

Said The New York World: "The State's Attorney is well answered. He is charged with the responsibility of setting before the court whatever legal and social reasons exist for the death penalty in this case. To imply that the attitude of a mob should influence the court's decision was an abuse of his office and a direct insult to the Judge.

"In thus addressing Judge Caverly, the State's Attorney was really talking over his head to the crowd outside, was lending the prestige of the State of Illinois to incite a mob to violence. Justice is not safe in the hands of an official so openly willing to exploit a notorious criminal case for his own political advantage."

"The Hogger's" Book

A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW,* by William S. Holdsworth, K.C., D.C.L., Professor in English Law at Oxford, is the first continuous history of English Law ever written. Said one Abraham Benedict, writing for The New York Times: "There are still lawyers in this country who think it no less important to know the history of the great heritage that is ours than to be acquainted with the latest decisions and to such these volumes will be a source of interest, pleasure and profit, and no student of political or economic conditions can afford to overlook this source of information."

A recent survey of the careers of ex-Rhodes Scholars shows that they are members of the bar of practically every State in the Union. Virtually all these men, while at Oxford, studied under Professor Holdsworth, who was affectionately known as "The Hogger."

* A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAIT (third edition, rewritten)--William S. Holdsworth-- Little, Brown--($42.00).