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1 Notre Dame Law. 135 (1925--1926)
Curiosities of the Law: A Case in Punctuation

handle is hein.journals/tndl1 and id is 137 raw text is: THE NOTRE DAME LAWYER A Monthly Low Review Law is the perfection of human reason Volume I MARCH 1926 Number 5 CURIOSITIES OF THE LAW : A CASE IN PUNCTUATION By DUDLEY G. WOOTEN It would be a most commendable achievement if some one would do for the Law what Isaac Disraeli, the father of Lord Beaconsfield, did for Literature. That scholarly English Jew contributed a vast and valuable fund of writing to the assets of British letters during a long life of intellectual industry, but the most celebrated of his works was undoubtedly his Curiosi- ties of Literature, a series of volumes issued over a space of forty years, and which unfortunately are little read nowadays. They are a veritable treasure-house of interesting and instruc- tive facts about literature and literary men, anecdotal and criti- cal miscellanies, dealing with historical events and curious in- cidents in the lives and productions of the great and near-great in the realm of learning. Although the field is equally as wide and varied, and fully as fruitful in its attractions, no such work has ever been accomplished for the Law and its votaries. De- sultory and fugitive volumes have been published from time to time, dealing with notable trials, recounting memorable experi- ences of the bench and bar, collecting the wit, eloquence, re- sourceful expedients, and dramatic exploits of the best known advocates and jurists; but no one so far has written an adequate account of the Law as it has been followed and illustrated in the many famous forensic controversies of England and the United States, to go no further. Such a production would afford the most diverting and keenly fascinating set of miscellanies in all literature, for it would blend the practice and the philosophy of the Law, and exhibit at once the triumphs of native genius, the trophies of intellectual training, the skill of tried and tested

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