LAWYERS AND LAYMEN OF WESTERN CANADA

Hardback. Featuring the biographies of 8 leading lawyers and laymen of Western Canada: Nicholas Flood Davin, Nathaniel Francis Hagel, Sir Hugh John Macdonald, Samuel Larcombe, Chief Justice Prendergast, Robert Andrew Bonnar, Patrick James Nolan, Robert Chambers Edwards. Here are well-told stories of triumphant careers. Some of these men were leaders in public life, some made a name for themselves at the bar. In either case they were men who thought swiftly on their feet, whether in the crowded courtroom or at an obstreperous electioneering meeting. Here is the rapier-like exchange of wit, the apparent impasse, the brilliant resolving of the situation, sometimes the flash of genius. Illus. 197pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Ex-lib with a few discreet rubber stamps, but no pockets or dockets. Sl. patchily faded covers. With part of dw. 'blurb' tipped-in to fep. Vg. no dw.