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arterly journal of jurisprudence. During three successive winters subsequent to his admission to the bar, he delivered lectures to the students of the Dane Law School at Cambridge, and for a brief period had the sole charge of that institution. Such fidelity to his trust, such an affluence of learning, and such legal acumen were exhibited in these lectures, that in 1836 a professorship in the school was tendered to him. This he declined. Mr. Sumner's position in the legal world, says Mr. D. A. Harsha, was an enviable one: he was universally regarded as a young lawyer of exalted talent, brilliant genius, and commanding eloquence. His legal acquirements attracted the attention, and received the compliments, of Chancellor James Kent and other eminent civilians. His reputation as a lawyer was extended by the able editorship of Andrew Dunlap's standard work on Admiralty practice, to which he added valuable notes and comments, and which was published in Philadelphia in 1836. On his dea