Excerpt from The Calyx, 1912, Vol. 18 As a student of the law, as an advocate at the bar, and as a teacher of the law, Professor Staples is doubtless best known to the general public. For many years he has been regarded as one of the most learned and able lawyers of Virginia. He has been. From the beginning, an untiring student of the law. He has the legal mind and the legal temperament. As an advocate at the bar, he was reckoned as a master of the Socratic art. I have frequently heard that he had few equals in examining witnesses. As a teacher of the law, he is painstaking, exact, conscientious and thorough. The students rally about him. They are with him in the class-room, on the campus, and in his home. They love him. They trust 'him. They seek his advice on any and on every conceivable subject, all the way from the complex problem of matrimony to the simple matter of suggesting the most available remedy for a bad cold. I know of no man who com bines in a finer way the charm and grace of the old time and the freedom and direct ness of the new. This combination of qualities in a teacher means, of course, that he is gifted with the genius of getting close to young men. It is a fact that service to young men is, with Professor Staples, an instinct, a passion, a creed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.