THE SEVEN LAMPS
OF ADVOCACY
WHAT THE
JUDGE THOUGHT
By His Honour Judge Edward
Parry. Demy 8vo. Cloth. 21s. net
(Third Impression)
T. FISHER UNWIN, Ltd., LONDON
THE SEVEN LAMPS
OF ADVOCACY By
His Honour Judge EDWARD
ABBOTT PARRY
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in 1923
(All rights reserved)
TO
THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT
WHERE I LEARNED
THESE THINGS
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | The Lamp of Honesty | 11 |
| II. | The Lamp of Courage | 23 |
| III. | The Lamp of Industry | 37 |
| IV. | The Lamp of Wit | 49 |
| V. | The Lamp of Eloquence | 61 |
| VI. | The Lamp of Judgment | 75 |
| VII. | The Lamp of Fellowship | 93 |
I
THE LAMP
OF HONESTY
I
THE LAMP OF HONESTY
The great advocate is like the great actor:he fills the stage for his span of life, succeeds,gains our applause, makes his lastbow, and the curtain falls. Nothing is soelusive as the art of acting, unless indeedit be the sister art of advocacy. Youcannot say that the methods of Garrick,Kean or Irving, Erskine, Hawkins orRussell, were the right methods or theonly methods, or even that they were thebest methods of practising their severalarts; you can only say that they succeededin their day, and that their contemporariesacclaimed them as masters.
Inasmuch as their methods were ofte