The "Joseph Hume" Scholarship for proficiency in jurisprud- ence,—a scholarship
of £20 a year for three years,—at University. College, London, has this year been gained by a lady, Miss Eliza Orme. Even Shakespeare, though he ventured to draw a picture of a lady pleading the cause of a man in danger of death, and taking some rather fine distinctions with the laudable end of saving her lover's friend, never ventured to anticipate that a lady would take up by preference the science of jurisprudence,—gene- rally thought the driest and least attractive of studies,—as an intellectual pursuit. And probably law, in its more scientific aspects, will never be a very popular pursuit with women, even though they might very well acquaint themselves with enough of it to make them very tolerable attorneys and land-agents. As to the land agencies, however, on second thoughts, we hesitate ; for it is easier to conceive a woman with a passion for juris- prudence, than one who had mastered Sugden's "Vendors and Purchasers," even for the very practical object of advising her principals on their contracts for sale or purchase. It is only intellectual doggedness that can do that, but there its intellectual doggedness in some women, though it is rare.
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