112

_By permission of the Trustees of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery._

JOHN P. CURRAN 128

_By permission of the Trustees of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery._

DANIEL O'CONNELL 144

_By permission of the Trustees of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery._

LORD NEWTON 156

LORD ESKGROVE 160

LORD KAMES 164

LORD ELDIN 168

LORD COCKBURN 176

LORD BRAXFIELD 184

_By permission of the Trustees of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery._

LORD YOUNG 192

_From a photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons._

THE HON. HENRY ERSKINE 200

_By permission of the Trustees of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery._

ANDREW CROSBIE 208

_By permission of the Faculty of Advocates._

THEOPHILUS PARSONS 224

RUFUS CHOATE 232

CHAPTER ONE

THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND

"The man resolv'd and steady to his trust,
Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just,
May the rude rabble's insolence despise,
Their senseless clamours, and tumultuous cries;
The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles,
And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies,
And with superior greatness smiles."

HORACE: _Odes_.

"The charge is prepared, the lawyers are set;
The judges are ranged, a terrible show."

_Beggar's Opera._

LAW AND LAUGHTER
BY GEORGE A. MORTON
AND D. MACLEOD MALLOCH

CHAPTER ONE

THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND

Mr. Justice Darling, whose witty remarks from the Bench are so much
appreciated by his audiences in Court, and, it is rumoured, are not
always received with approval by his brother judges, says, in his
amusing book _Scintillae Juris_:

"It is a common error to suppose that our law has no sense of humour,
because for the most part the judges who expound it have none."

But law is, after all, a serious business--at any