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MR. JUSTICE DAVID J. BREWER.

{Supreme Court of the United States.)

EDITOR IN CHIEF.

JUSTICE BREWER was appointed to the Supreme Bench of the United States by President Harrison in December, 1889. As a preparation for that exalted position, he had had an experience of more han a quarter of a century on the bench of lower courts, State and Federal. Beginning in 1852, he served as judge of the probate and criminal courts of Leavenworth County, Kansas; judge of the First District Court of Kansas; justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas; and judge of the United States Circuit Court, --a position from which he was promoted to the Supreme Bench as the successor to Mr. Justice Matthews, of Ohio.

Justice Brewer is the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer, who, as a missionary to Asia Minor, established the frst English newspaper in Smyrna and first introduced American methods of education into the Turkish Eripire. His mother, a sister of Mr. Justice Field, accorsnied his father to Asia Minor and, while they were residents of Smyrna, David Josiah Brewer" was born there, June 20th, 1937. While he was still a child his parents retried to America, and he grew up in Connecticut. He was educated at the Wesleyan University, at Yale, and at the Albany Law School, studying also in the law office of his uncle, David Dudley Ficki. Ariong is classmates at Yale were Senator Chauncey M. Depew and Mr. Justice Brown of the Supreme Court. He is an LL. D. of Yale and several other universities, but has the still Ligher honor of having found time to be president of a library association; chai: man of a school board; superintendent of public schools; ard president of the Kaisas State Teachers' Association Since his appointment to the Supreme Bench of the United States, he has served as a member of the Venezuela Commission appointed by President Clevoland; and es a member of the British-Venezuela Arbitration Tribunal, selected by the two nations. He has done important educational work, notably as a member of the faculty of the Columbian Law School.. His address, "The Protection of Private Property against Public Attack," delivered before the Yale Law School in 1891, attracted wide attention and excited an animated discussion.

"The World's Best Orations» (F. P. Kaiser, St. Louis, 1899, ten volumes) of which he was Editor in Chief, have been one of the notable book making successes of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. "The World's Best Esczys. edited as a companion collection for the World's Best Orations, represent e some purposes and methods.