as not at the time able to
serve in that capacity, but was a regular lecturer, and in 1876, on
being again elected to the position, he accepted it. This relation to
the school he sustains at present, having, during the decade which has
passed since his assumption of the office, contributed in no small
measure to the present efficient organization and very gratifying
prosperity of the school. In May, 1858, he was appointed Judge of
Probate and Insolvency for Bristol county, holding the office
twenty-five years, and resigning in 1883.

In other directions, and by other methods than that of communicating
oral instruction, Judge Bennett has exerted himself to develop the
science and advance the practice of his profession. His legal
works--written and edited alone, or in company with others--number more
than a hundred volumes, the chief of which are: "English Law and Equity
Reports;" an edition of Mr. Justice Story's works; "Leading Criminal
Cases;" "Fire Insurance Cases;" "Digest of Massachusetts Reports;"
American editions of the recent English works of "Goddard on Easements;"
"Benjamin on Sales;" "Indermann on the Common Law;" and many others. For
some considerable time he has been editorially connected with the
_American Law Register_ of Philadelphia. His lecture on "Farm Law,"
delivered at Hingham in December, 1878, before the State Board of
Agriculture, attracted very general attention at the time, and was
republished in agricultural journals all over New England, as well as in
the West.

In religious sympathy and work Judge Bennett is allied with the
Protestant Episcopal Church. For some years he acted either in the
capacity of warden or vestry-man of St. Thomas parish, Taunton, and
several times as delegate represented the parish in the Diocesan
Convention. In 1874, 1877, 1880, and 1883 he was appointed delegate from
his diocese to the General Triennial Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in this country. He is now senior warden of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, of Boston.

THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DANIEL WEBSTER.

BY HON. EDWARD S. TOBEY.

I might well shrink from writing on a topic which has already engaged
the pen and thought of the most able of Mr. Webster's contemporaries and
biographers, were it not that, by opportunities wholly unsought, so much
of reliable testimony, not previously published, has come to me tending
to correct false opinions and impressions as to his private character,