[Illustration: Henry W. Paine]






THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine._

VOL. III. NOVEMBER, 1885. NO. VI.

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HENRY W. PAINE.

BY PROF. WILLIAM MATHEWS, LL.D.


Among the callings acknowledged to be not only useful, but indispensable
to society, there is no one, except the medical, which has been oftener
the butt of vulgar ridicule and abuse than the legal. "Lawyers and
doctors," says a writer on Wit and Humor in the _British Quarterly
Review_, "are the chief objects of ridicule in the jest-books of all
ages." But whatever may be the disadvantages of the Law as a profession,
in spite of the aspersions cast upon it by disappointed suitors,