Legal Masterpieces Specimens of Argumentation and Exposition By..

1974. Veeder, Van Vechten (editor). Legal Masterpieces: Specimens of Argumentation and Exposition By Eminent Lawyers. St. Paul, Minnesota: Keefe-Davidson Company, 1903. Reprinted W.S. Hein, 1974. Two volumes. New. $85. * "As he states in his preface, the editor of the collection has planned to 'bring together from the whole field of legal literature specimens of the best models of the various forms of discourse and composition in which the lawyer's work is embodied'...Mr. Veeder's editorial work deserves very high praise. To the whole collection he has prefixed an interesting and instructive study of forensic argument. At the beginning of the work of each jurist is placed a short biography, followed by a lengthy and careful criticism of that jurist's life, work, and influence." Harvard Law Review. Marke 226.