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This memoir provides a personal account of the life and career of Sir Frederick Pollock, a prominent English lawyer and legal scholar. With anecdotes and insights drawn from Pollock's own experiences, this book offers a unique perspective on the legal profession and British society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
"Described by the author as a "collection of trifles including several parodies of our recent and living masters in English poetry," this volume, which is dedicated to Algernon Charles Swinburne, falls into two parts. The first offers parodic summaries of court cases in the manner of Walter Scott, Byron, Tennyson and others. The second addresses such enthusiasms as Shakespeare, Beethoven, Grimm and a fondly-remembered pet cat and demonstrates his enviable facility with Greek, Latin, French and German."
This fine collection is accompanied by an essay by Sir John Pollock that skillfully places the writers' ideas in the perspective of recent experience. A crucial document for lawyers, the letters are also delightful reading.
This book is the first in a two-volume set containing the trans-Atlantic correspondence between the celebrated jurists Sir Frederick Pollock and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Volume one contains the letters dated between 1874 and 1918 and includes their discussion of topics such as the American Civil War and World War One.