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"MR. JUSTICE HOLMES . ." GOES INTO FOURTH LARGE PRINTING

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The Harvard University Press acted immediately on the designation of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, to occupy a seat on the Supreme-Court by sending his eminently successful book, "Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court," into a fourth large printing.

The book had been dedicated in these words. "To Mr. Justice Cardoza, rightful successor of Mr. Justice Holmes." Professor Frankfurter sent a specially stricken copy of this dedication to the death bed of the man whom he was named to succeed yesterday.

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