Herbert Fisher - Frederick William Maitland

"The Cambridge Apostles," by W. D. Christie. Macmillan's Magazine , Nov. 1864.

A Biographical Notice by Mrs Reynell (privately printed).

Cambridge University Reporter , Dec. 17, 1904.

A punning squib, very spirited and amusing, entitled "A solemn Mystery," and contributed to The Adventurer , June 4, 1869, seems to have been Maitland's first appearance in print.

Cambridge University Reporter , Dec. 7, 1900.

There were four candidates for the Fellowship: W. Cunningham, Arthur Lyttelton, F. W. Maitland, and James Ward, every one of them distinguished in after life. With so strong a competition the College might have done well to elect more Fellows than one in Moral and Mental Science.

Such for instance as: —

"The love of simplicity has done vast harm to English Political Philosophy."

"No history of the British Constitution would be complete which did not point out how much its growth has been affected by ideas derived from Aristotle."

"The idea of a social compact did not become really active till it was allied with the doctrine that all men are equal."

"In Hume we see the first beginnings of a scientific use of History."

For a good instance of Maitland's trained insight see Domesday Book and Beyond , p. 232.

Maitland once conducted an argument before Jessel, M. R. Re Morton v. Hallett (Feb. & May, 1880, Ch. 15, D. 143).

Browning, Ring and the Book . See Maitland, Bracton's Note Book , vol. 1.

An account of Maitland's "valuable" lectures "On the Cause of High and Low Wages," given to an average class of some twenty workmen in the Artizan's Institute, Upper St Martin's Lane, in 1874, and "followed by a very useful discussion in which the students asked and Mr Maitland answered many knotty questions" may be read in H. Solly, These Eighty Years , vol. II. p. 440.

The note shows a knowledge of 18 Bracton MSS.

The Russian edition of Studies in Villeinage .

Law Quarterly Review.