The Green Bag Volume 26; A Useless But Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...made before knives and forks. Once he appeared before a large, cultured audience at the Iowa State University for the purpose of delivering an address to the class. He wore a pair of pantaloons similar to the traditional sailor's trousers, a blue flannel shirt, a flowing brown linen duster, and a pair of brogan shoes, unlaced and with the strings whipping about his ankles. He paid no attention to his reception, but commenced to talk as soon as he appeared and in less than five minutes that refined, intelligent audience had lost sight of the uncouth figure before it, and was traveling the beautiful avenues and fields he was sketching with his matchless brush. In Colonel Dean's country home was the most extensive private library owned by any Missourian at that period. The books were piled against the walls in double rows, reaching clear up to the ceiling on all sides. To a visitor it would seem those books had been thrown there in endless confusion, but when the owner wanted any one of them he could touch it unerringly. All the classics and the masters of history and fiction were piled around the room in that backwoods home. Dean's critics said his learning was superficial; that his alleged quotations were inaccurate and that his method was to borrow a strong sentence here and there from the authors, and then weave a lot of fol-de-rol around them to make it appear he was a wonderfully entensive reader. Ben Franklin of the law firm of Guthrie & Franklin, Macon, was a sort of protege of Dean's, and he spent many hours in that remarkable library at "Rebel Cove." "I had found myself wondering whether Dean was really giving us authentic quotations," said Mr. Franklin, "and once to test him I asked about a certain quotation he had ...