RANDOLPH -ON COMMERCIAL PAPER A Treatise on the Law in Relation to Bills of Exchange, all other Instruments of a Commercial Char acter, Negotiable or Non-Negotiable. BY JOSEPH F. RANDOLPH, of the New Jersey Bar. Three Large Octavo Volumes, Containing 3200 Pages. PRICE, $16.50 NET. WHAT IS SAID OF THE WORK. From AMERICAN LAW REVIEW, March, 1888. - Altogether, this is obviously one of the most thorough and honest legal works that have been issued in recent years. The author was fully equipped for the task, by reason of his previous training, when he began it. He devoted about six years of sedulous labor to it." From THE RAILWAY AND CORPORATION LAW JOURNAL, January 21st, 1888.-"It is not easy to say too much in praise of this exhaustive and elaborated work. No lawyer whose study or practice brings him into connection with the subject treated will, after becoming familiar with the merits and value of Mr. Randolph's work, be willing to be without it. 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SUBSCRIPTION, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Copyrighted 1889. Entered at the Post Office at Philadelphia as second-class matter. Vol. I. June 15, 1889. No. 6. JOHN MARSHALL, LL. D., CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES. (Died July 6, 1835. This biography was written by his associate on the bench, Joseph Story, and appeared in the first volume of "The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans," published in 1835.) JOHN MARSHALL (the present Chief Justice of the United States), was born in Fauquier County, in the State of Virginia, on the 24th of September, 1755. His father was Thomas Marshall, of the same State, who served with great distinction in the Revolutionary war, as a colonel in the line of the Continental army. Colonel Marshall was a planter of a very small fortune, and had received but a narrow education. These deficiencies, however, were amply supplied by the gifts of nature. His talents were of a high order, and he cultivated them with great diligence and perseverance, so that he maintained. throughout his whole life, among associates of no mean character, the reputation of being a man of extraordinary ability. No better proof need be adduced to justify this opinion, than the fact that he possessed the unbounded confidence, admiration, and reverence of all his children, at the period of life when they were fully able to appreciate his worth and compare him with other men of known eminence. There are those yet living who have often listened with delight to the praises bestowed on him by filial affection, and have heard the declaration einphatically repeated from the lips of one of his most gifted sons, that his father was an abler man than any of his children. Such praise, from such a source, is beyond measure precious. It warms while it elevates. It is a tribute of gratitude to the memory of a parent after death has put the last seal upon his character, and at a distance of time when sorrow |