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204 NOTICES OE BOOKS.
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Agnes Tremorne. By J. Blag 2 Den Vols . ...
branch and tlie lily , is as pretty a piece of word painting * as we rememberand worthin itself sending * for the book to read , were
there not , so many things , in it still better worth reading and thinking * over .
204 Notices Oe Books.
204 NOTICES OE BOOKS .
Ancient Relation Zaw To ; Modern Its Con...
Ancient relation Zaw to Modern its Connexion Ideas . B with y Henry the Ear Turn ly er History Maine of , Header Society of , and Juris its - . and formerl
prudence _Heg 1861 ius . Professor and the of Civil Civil Law Law in at the the University Middle of Temp Cambrid le , ge . London y .
This work of Mr . Maine ' s , in itself one of the most remarkable that has _apj 3 eared for some timeiswe thinkcalculated to be
, , , peculiarly useful to women . Like Buckle ' s History of Civilization , it contains the latest results of thought and modern research on a
general subject of the utmost importance , worked out with so much clearness and simplicityand presented in a style so lucid and so
, free from all technical difficulties , that it is perfectly comprehensible i ; o any person of moderate education and habits of thought . Indeed ,
we scarcely know whether the intrinsic value of many of the ideas , the arrangement of the matter , or the force and simplicity of
expression , are most to be admired in Mr . Maine ' s book , or most calculated to make it of general use .
In some respects the history of law runs parallel with that of civilizationfor not onlis law the most powerful instrument of
improvement , , but it is y also the most precise expression of the degree of improvement already attained in any state of society ;
and in the history of law we may trace the gradual encroachment of ideas and habits founded on the intellectual and moral parts of
human nature , as in the history of civilization we see the gradual enfranchisement of humanity from the trammels of physical
necessities . It is also probably in the history of law that we can best trace the history of opinion , and there is no more effectual way of
shaking long-cherished and deep-rooted prejudices than by tracing ; them to their first oriinand showing their dependence on other
g , ideas which have long ceased to exercise any influence on our own state of society .
It is from this point of view that there is much in Mr . Maine ' s work > _sj > eciallinteresting in its aj > lication to the j _> resent legal
position of women y . To trace this position p , from its first origin in the history of the familin rude societiesthrough all the various forms
which the gradually y _aXvakening sense , of justice has impressed upon it down to the present time , would be a task in which we could have
no better guide than this work and the reflections which it obviousl 6 i Primitiv y suggests e Society . We and recommend Ancient particul Law" to arly the the attentive whole chapter study . on of
those who wish to form a true conception of the historical foundations of women ' s legal status ; and we think the curious analogy
belong between ing the to a modern son under Eng the lish Roman legal law rights mig of ht a very wife profitabl and those y be
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/60/
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