Judge Elbridge

Opie Read in the book «Judge Elbridge» talks about a man, John Elbridge, a lawyer and student to Bodney, a Kentuckian. This book has a theme of justice, aura of prejudice, with a blend of romantism and love. «When John Elbridge retired from the bench, the newspapers said that he had been an honorable judge. He was not a pioneer, but had come to Chicago at a time which we now call an early day, when churches rang their bells where now there is a jungle of trade, when the legs of the Giant of the West were in the ache of „growing pains;“ at a time when none but the most visionary dreamed that a mud-hole full of old boots, dead rats, cats, dogs, could ever be worth a million of dollars» is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.