149

XVIII. JUDICIAL SALARIES 153

PART IV. COSTUME AND TOILET.

XIX. BRIGHT AND SAD 163

XX. MILLINERY 169

XXI. WIGS 171

XXII. BANDS AND COLLARS 182

XXIII. BAGS AND GOWNS 187

XXIV. HATS 195

PART V. MUSIC.

XXV. THE PIANO IN CHAMBERS 206

XXVI. THE BATTLE OF THE ORGANS 208

XXVII. THE THICKNESS IN THE THROAT 219

PART VI. AMATEUR THEATRICALS.

XXVIII. ACTORS AT THE BAR 224

XXIX. "THE PLAY'S THE THING" 230

XXX. THE RIVER AND THE STRAND BY TORCHLIGHT 238

XXXI. ANTI-PRYNNE 243

XXXII. AN EMPTY GRATE 251

PART VII. LEGAL EDUCATION

XXXIII. INNS OF COURT AND INNS OF CHANCERY 258

XXXIV. LAWYERS AND GENTLEMEN 265

XXXV. LAW-FRENCH AND LAW-LATIN 277

XXXVI. STUDENT LIFE IN OLD TIME 287

XXXVII. READERS AND MOOTMEN 298

XXXVIII. PUPILS IN CHAMBERS 307

PART VIII. MIRTH.

XXXIX. WIT OF LAWYERS 316

XL. HUMOROUS STORIES 334

XLI. WITS IN 'SILK' AND PUNSTERS IN 'ERMINE' 349

XLII. WITNESSES 365

XLIII. CIRCUITEERS 376

XLIV. LAWYERS AND SAINTS 390

PART IX. AT HOME: IN COURT: AND IN SOCIETY.

XLV. LAWYERS AT THEIR OWN TABLES 402

XLVI. WINE 413

XLVII. LAW AND LITERATURE 423

PART I.

HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS.

CHAPTER I.

LADIES IN LAW COLLEGES.

A law-student of the present day finds it difficult to realize the
brightness and domestic decency which characterized the Inns of Court in
the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Under existing
circumstances, women of character and social position avoid the gardens
and terraces of Gray's Inn and the Temple.

Attended by men, or protected by circumstances that guard them from
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