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2 Law Transition Q. 126 (1965)
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handle is hein.journals/lintraqu2 and id is 136 raw text is: LAW IN TRANSITION QUARTERLY can say with confidence that in years to come his doctrine will not seem to have been a wise and good one? Perhaps the most revealing insight is the Justice's acknowledge- ment that the best advice he ever received was from his mother in his youth: Hold yourself dear. If this was the source of a certain intellectual snobisme, it was also the prompter of his contempt for a poor recitation, a slipshod argument, a careless opinion, an inade- quate brief, sentimental music, dull company, or a lukewarm friend- ship. And yet, for all his diversity, the dominant impression left by these volumes is that of a great patriot-not of a xenophobe nor in Dr. Johnson's derogatory view-but rather of one imbued with a passionate belief in the perfectibility of American life and institu- tions, derived in no small part from his foreign birth. However one may regard the answers he gave, he knew the right questions to ask. GERHARD P. VAN ARKEL* *Member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. BOOKS RECEIVED AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE. By Len Holt. Boston: Beacon Press. 1965. Pp. 236. $4.95. Len Holt is a Virginia attorney who chronicles the oppression and the legal battles which developed in Danville, Virginia, in 1963. It is both a personal story and a story of a movement. It provides the read- ers with an opportunity to re-live the day by day legal developments in a single civil rights struggle. THE GREAT PURGE TRIAL. Edited and with notes by Robert C. Tucker & Stephen F. Cohen. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. 1965. Pp. 725. $2.95 (paper). In 1938 a session of the Military Colleguium of the Supreme Court of the USSR placed on trial a number of persons who had played a major role in the development of the Russian Revolution. This volume contains the entire transcript of the trial and permits the reader to analyze for himself this highly controversial trial which played a major role in the subsequent history of the Soviet Union. 126

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