perseded at many points, there is
no fame among American statesmen more strongly bulwarked by great and
still vital institutions. Marshall established judicial review; he
imparted to an ancient legal tradition a new significance; he made
his Court one of the great political forces of the country; he founded
American Constitutional Law; he formulated, more tellingly than any one
else and for a people whose thought was permeated with legalism, the
principles on which the integrity and ordered growth of their Nation
have depended. Springing from the twin rootage of Magna Charta and
the Declaration of Independence, his judicial statesmanship finds no
parallel in the salient features of its achievement outside our own
annals.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

All accounts of Marshall's career previous to his appointment as Chief
Justice have been superseded by Albert J. Beveridge's two admirable
volumes, "The Life of John Marshall" (Boston, 1916). The author paints
on a large canvas and with notable skill. His work is history as well as
biography. His ample plan enables him to quote liberally from Marshall's
writings and from all the really valuable first-hand sources. Both
text and notes are valuable repositories of material. Beveridge has
substantially completed a third volume covering the first decade of
Marshall's chief-justiceship, and the entire work will probably run to
five volumes.

Briefer accounts of Marshall covering his entire career will be found in
Henry Flanders's "Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme
Court" (1875) and Van Santvoord's "Sketches of the Lives, Times, and
Judicial Services of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court" (1882).
Two excellent brief sketches are J. B. Thayer's "John Marshall" (1901)
in the "Riverside Biographical Series," and W. D. Lewis's essay in the
second volume of "The Great American Lawyers," 8 vols. (Philadelphia,
1907), of which he is also the editor. The latter is particularly happy
in its blend of the personal and legal, the biographical and critical.
A. B. Magruder's "John Marshall" (1898) in the "American Statesman
Series" falls considerably below the general standard maintained by that
excellent series.

The centennial anniversary of Marshall's accession to the Supreme Bench
was generally observed by Bench and Bar throughout the United States,
and many of the addresses on the great Chief Justice's life and judicial
services delivered by distinguished judge