My current mental exercise project is to read all the volumes in the Holmes Devise. I’ve looked at parts of them before but never all of them. I’ll have more to say about the Holmes Devise in future posts.
One fun fact that I learned is that President Cleveland nominated William Hornblower to the Supreme Court. The Senate rejected his nomination. This was a shame, if for no other reason than we were deprived of ability to write lines like: “As Justice Hornblower said . . .”