The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

even where we are the least disposed to recognis
their validity. For he writes upon all serious
matters, as we have already remarked, in an elevated
and philosophical spirit. He writes, moreover upon
all the loftier themes that naturally come here, in
sequence, under his consideration, with what we
are ever eager to respect, a profound conscien-
tiousness. Reading his book thus, as we have done,
with a ready sense of the seriousness with which
it has been penned throughout, we would apply
to it, now that it is completed, the very words
in which Mr. Warren himself comments upon Dr.
Arnold's " Introductory Lectures on Modern His-
tory." No words, in fact, that we ourselves
might put together could be more strictly applicable
to these two goodly volumes of Mr. Warren's Law
Studies. " They abound in fruitful and practical
suggestions, which cannot be entered into here, and
all of them it is not to be expected that every in-
dependent inquirer will adopt, however great his
deference to manifest worth and ability." The
panoramic view here unrolled with so much
effect before the aspiring Law Student by this
ripe scholar, this practised lawyer, this
gifted man of letters—is certainly calculated
to fill the student-reader's heart, at one time, with
a highly inspiriting sense of encouragement, at
another with the liveliest feelings of despair.
Educated according to Mr. Warren's system, tutored
under the wonderfully elaborate directions here so
minutely and categorically defined, the Law Stu-
dent need have the eyes at once of a house-fly and
of an eagle, the frame of an athlete, the digestion
of an ostrich, the learning of a Scaliger, and the
accomplishments of a Crichton. He is told frankly
that, if he expects to make anything like a figura
in his profession, he must needs take within his view
(and that not superficially, but searchingly) the
whole range of human knowledge. Proficiency, to
him, is essential, in logic, rhetoric, and elocution, in
philology and classical literature, in chronology,
history, geography, and political philosophy. It
will be well for him, he is here told impres-
sively by his Mentor, if he has tried the vigour
of his intellectual pinions by soaring into the empy-
rean of the high mathematics. Political economy,
he must be master of ; ditto of medical jurispru-
cence. If he has a taste for anatomy, chemistry,
botany, mechanics, zoology, geology, and the science
of navigation, it will be so much the better for him,
as a wrestler for place and for advancement among
a crowd of gifted competitors. Mercantile and
agricultural knowledge, he must needs acquire
betimes, no less than a certain intimacy with all
the acts and all the sciences. Adied to which,
fsr legal lore alone, he has to work his way (heaven
knows how laboriously !) through a whole vast li-
brary of sombre law books, dating from old dead
and gone Bracton down to living authorities like
Broom, and Mayne, and Warren himself, and Philli-
more, The mere enumeration of these legal autho-
rities which the student, by the way, is required
to tackle, not to skim over lightly like one
of those charming naughty little primrose
livraisons of M. Charles Paul de Kock, but
thinkingly to coon, steadily to devour, and in-
wardly to digest—the mere enumeration of these
names seems as suggestive of despair, as to an intend-
ing reader at the British Museum might be the first
crossing the threshold of that noblest walhalla
of literature in the world, the circular library or
reading room down in Bloomsbury. Let not the
eager, but momentarily discouraged student be so
discouraged. If Mr. Warren, in thus uncompromis-
ingly opening up before his gaze the long and
arduous path he is required to traverse, pitilessly
seems to suggest only visions of dismay—let the
student still follow out his Mentor's argument con-
fidingly, and he will soon discover that these same
pages have a heartening influence as well. It is
not only that in a wonderful little footnote at page
397 he will hear how Edmund Saunders, origi-
nally an errand boy in one of the Inns of Court,
rose at length, from that humble station, in life to be
an attorney, to be a barrister, to be one of the
most able and learned of practitioners, finally, to
be the Lord Chief Justice of England ! Neither is
it merely that the golden apples of the Hesperidean
garden of the law are here hung forth in tempting
array for the student's contemplation, not as a Itlaada-
manthian punishment before the lips of Tantalus, but
as fruits of toil to be culled by the more adventurous
—golden apples here displayed by Mr. Warren in his
appendix, singly ani in clusters, from great Brob-
dignagian lumps of deliciousness like the £lO,OOO
year of the Lord Chancellor, the £B,OOO a year of
the Chief Justices, the £6,000 a yeai of the Master
of the Rolls, and so forth, down to such wretched
little wizzened russettings or crabs(sour grapes some,
perhaps, might whisper) like the four guinea per
annum salary of the Durham, or even the two
guinea per annum salary of the Wareham
Recordership! Incentives, though the enume-
ration of these numerous, and many of theta
costly, prizes which are to be won at the bar
of England, may be, doubtless are, to those con-
fident in their own powers, and seriously ambitious
of winning success—the heartening influence here
spoken of, as exercised over the energies of the
earnest law student, by Mr. Warren's bracing and
invigorating treatise, is rather to our mind discern-
able in the manly tone in which the whole book
itself is written, in the reverent spirit in
which it is conceived throughout, a spirit
so reverential of its kind that the last sentence

of the work closes quite naturally, quite unaffect-
edly, with a passage from Holy Writ. Mr. Warren,
in regard to this important Practical Intro-
duction to Law Studies and to Every Department
of the Legal Profession, has at length completed
his labours, and completed them most successfully.
Having, quite frankly, in our foregoing
remarks
taken exception to whatever appeared to US in anY
way seriously to require it, in a work so peculiarly-
comprehensive and various, we may now all the
more unhesitatingly offer to the learned author of
it, our congratulations upon the general excellence
of this his latest achievement. For, it is only fair to
Mr. Warren that we should speak of the book quite
plainly, as nothing less than an achievement. And
it comes to us fittingly enough from one who has:
already earned for himself among his contempo-
raries a conspicuous position both in law and In.
literature.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S DETERMINATION.
At the celebration of the anniversary of the fours'
dation of the Cathedral of Magdeburg, the King of Prussia
made use of the following language, in answer to the ad-
dress presented to him :—" I feel the overwhelming weight
of tho struggle which God has imposed on us, but I also
know what I owe to my people and to the crown of nohow
zollern, which has been transmitted to me by inheritance
to maintain it courageously to the end. Come what may,
I shall inflexibly persevere in what I consider to be re-
quisite for the good and for the inde2endence of the countrY.
I shall not turn aside from the path into which I have
entered, and if you continue faithtul to the oath you have
sworn, we shall be victorious in the end.' According t°
the Magdeburg Gazette, these words made a profound ire'
pression. Prince Charles was the first to cry, "Long lice
the Ki❑g 1" which was responded to by those present wial
enthusiasm.

THE YELVERTON CAUSE, it is believed, will b 0
ready for the House of Lords in February, the case for the
respondent, the Hon. Mrs. Theresa Longworth or Yelver-
ton, being in an advanced state of preparation, and the
appellant's having been lodged before the House of Lords
rose.

SALES OF WORKS OF ART FROM THE EXHIBITI°I4,
Or THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—In 1858, 129 examples letcbe`:
£s,os6—in 1859, 98 items brought £4,6oo—in 1860,.15
productions realised £7,435—in 1861, 126 sales obtained
d
£7,33B—in 1862, 114 specimens procured for their autilt)ro
£5,806.

OFFICIAL VANDALISM, OR CRASS STUPIDITY•""
The Builder states that the Board of Works, Wile!
applied to for permission to place a marble tablet on the
front of the house in Maiden-lane, Covent. garden, in
Turner was born and lived, refused to grant it.
applicants were artists who had subscribed money for t.""
purpose. As artists had this work in hand, it is not WI
to have been open to the criticism of the Board of We/
on amthetic grounds, nor is the design likely to have bee
such as would endanger the building or interfere with tt
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circulation of air in the neighbourhood. Surely this matt
,e 0
must be re-considered. The Board, while sanctioning
Waterworks and Napier statue in Trafalgar. Equaref

hardly style itself an authority in art,
DE QUINCEY wrote an essay on murder 0.11:
sidered as one of the Fine Arts; without a joke Fr.ize
Fighting may be considered as a Commeraial Speculatoa.
£here aro two forthcoming fights which form the leac.ling
topics of interest in the sporting papers at the present ?al!:
ChamPienEbir ;" the other 1$
42,000. I°l
One is for £lOO and the