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the reader . What restrictions he may have been laid under as to space , we know not ; but we cannot help thinking that , however uarrow his bounds , more interest , both of matter and style , might have been united with the fidelity which
characterizes the work . The large variety of extracts and references which meet us at every turn of the page , and the quietness of feeling which pervades the work , attest its impartiality , which we allow to be a primary requisite ; and therefore the volume will serve as a
useful manual for young candidates for legal eminence . It will not , we thiuk , become very popular . Variety of subject is uot wanting ; for we have the lives of Coke , Selden , Hale , Lords Guilford , Jefferies , Somers , Mansfield , Ashburton , Thurlow , and Erskine ; Wilmot , Blackstone , Jones , and Romilly .
In such a collection , the sensible reader may recognize examples and warnings of almost every moral and legal virtue and vice . Let us not be thought uncharitable for using the latter term . Jefferies is in the list ; so that were his brethren immaculate , our position would still hold good .
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Art . VI . —A Practical Exposition of the Law of Wills , fyc . By Richard Dickson , Esq . pp . 212 . London . 1830 . Sherwood , Gilbert , and Piper . There is now a general outcry for cheap law ; and truly , if we must have so much law as our legislature declares to be necessary , it is highly desirable that it should be easily procured . But it is not with law as with commodities
in general . Instead of being cheap , it is dear in proportion to its abundance . We are weary of the old story of estates which are ruined through the multiplicity of the provisions for their preservation . It is to be hoped that these evils are in process of mitigation , if not of remedy ; and , in the meanwhile , the desire of the people , of the wiser part of the people at least , is to obtain the knowledge , if they canuot get the
benefits , of the law at a moderate rate . Men are not satisfied now with committing their legal interests unreservedly to the lawyers . They choose to see with their own eyes , and understand with their own heads , —not perhaps the mysteries of the science , the arcana of the courts , —but the plain principles of law which should be obvious to all , and those practical applications of them for which there is perpetual occasion in the common transactions of business , and with which
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it behoves every good man of business to be acquainted . This desire , like all the rational expectations of the public from its members , is in the course of being gratified . Among other answers to the call , has appeared the work before us , which contains a great deal of useful information ou that department of the law of which it treats , in a neat form , and at a moderate charge .
As it contains nothing more than may be found in the law books in use in the profession , we conclude it was designed solely for popular reference ; and it is therefore to be wished that the style had been more popular , and that the points had been put in a more familiar and prominent way . A conscientious testator will , however , make out for himself ail that it is necessary for the safe transaction of business to know , and will be thankful that information so valuable is placed within his reach .
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Art . VII . —The Doom of Devoirgoil , a Melo-drama ; Auchindrane ' , or the Ayrshire Tragedy , By Sir Walter Scott , Bart . Oadell . " These dramatic pieces , or at least the first of them , were long since written , for the purpose of obliging the late
Mr . Terry , then manager of the Adelphi Theatre , for whom the author had a particular regard . " ( Preface . ) There are many different ways of shewing regard to one ' s friends , but it would not be easy to make a much worse selection than Sir Walter has made in this
instance . For a man of reputation so high and extended , of genius so unquestionable , and of versatility so rarely equalled , to write an octavo volume of stuff so poor and pitiful , so altogether " stale , flat , and unprofitable , " at least unprofitable to the reader , is indeed an extraordinary sacrifice to friendship , and a most peculiar mode of * ' obliging the
late Mr . Terry . " That worthy person must have felt it so ; for he very judiciously kept the obligation to himself , and never admitted the performers or audiences of the Adelphi Theatre to any participation in Sir Walter ' s kindness . The secret went with him to his crave ,
and was " not remembered in his epitaph , "—a grateful carefulness of his friend ' s fame , which the present publication shews not to have been appreciated as it ought . There are but two things in this volume not unworthy of the author ; and they have both been published before ; one of them in a more
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40 Q Critical Notices . — Miscellaneous ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/46/
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