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KINEE's "GENERAL INpEx'' Lo THE /, II AND
Ill Vols. OF HIS sLAwC oMPENDrUM. !" 1914. PIP.
530.-We have. already, as this valuable work
has been in progress. during the last four and
hive years, taken occasion 10 describe its plan,
and the faithful manner in which il has been
carried out by its able and learned aud iadefa~
tigable author. The publication, this week, of
a General Index to the three large volumes al
ready completed, affords US an occasion ofdwelI-
ing on it more particularly, as one of the most
valuable works ever given to the profession.
The ptanof the compendium is unique being
20 present a complete embodiment of Law, in
the form of a faithful and accurate digest of de-
cisions, as well as of elementary principles,
arranged in a catechetical shape, so that the
student, and the practitioner, with question
and answer before them, are enabled to receive
the points laid down, with a depth of impression,
that cannot be produced by a simple reading,
and with an accuracy, which is utterly incon-
sistent with any other plan or mode of mnemo-.
MIXING, ESQ to speak )what is essential and vol
luminous mass OF law reading. The titles are
arranged IN Alphabetical order the first volume
commencing with esAbatement., and ending
with insurance - the second taking up "Judg-
ments," and concluding with's WiIls;'' while
the third goes back again to the beginning of
the Alphabet, with "Abatement,' and termi-
mates with Witness" and including the au-
thor'sknewledge, subsequent t % the compilation
OF the hrst two volumes.
NACA 80 Isl lIOUl
some of,tho most learned and distinguish ed or
naments ofthe American Bench and Bar, in re-
lation to the manner in which Mr.Kinne has exc
cuted this important undertaking. Justice Sto-
ry, Attorney Generals Austin, of Massachu-
sets, and Johnson, of Pennsylvania. chief JUS
tces Williams, of Vermont, Hornblower, of
New Jersey, Judges Peters and Bouyier. of Phil
adelphia, David Paul Brown Esq. of that city
and many others, have all borne their weighty
testimony to its excellence and to its peculiar
adaptedness to the ends which were had in view
by its author. Judge Story remarks of il that
It is s'a!very valuable and useful book to the pro.
f~ession," and that it is s'drawn up. with great
accuracy and fulness :" He moreover saws that
Ito students it will be particularly useful; pre-
sentlng the doctrines i'll the form of question
and answer, it will have a tendency to make
them Ieel more distincly the precise stress of
the points,and thus prepare them to understand
and 10 give the true answered. Mr.. Peters is Of
opinion that ''it will extensively aid the student
in his researches, and be OF great value to the
practitioner in his lnvestigations.'' To the latter,
the same authority looks upon it as a great
"la5or-savlng machine,'' and desienates it, az
in itself, $50 coplous are the authorities refer
red to- ia very large Law Library, for the pos
SCISSOR. David Paul Brown says of it. that sit
imparts all the advantage of an accurate and
weiI-arranged notebook, while it saves to the
profession q vast deal OF time and labor. Give
me a fulcrum. said Archimedes, and lean raise
the earth. Give man time, or save it for worldly
purposes he has little else to ask -
With Kinne's ''Kent,n and Kinne's ssBiack-
stone, - The profession is already well acquain-
ted. The entire body of distinguished iurists
have borne their testimony to the valuable char
acter of both books. and to the peculiar talent
and ability of their author in the execution of
such works. That now before US, to which he
has devoted the fourteen last years of his life,
and a regular continuation of which, upon the
same plan, is published by him quarterly, fully
~justihes those high opinions, and warrants us,
upon a careful review OF its contents, in spea-
king OF it so approvingly as we have done.
Excellent as thessCompendium1 is, in itself,
and facile as is The access of the student or the
practitioner to- whateverhe would learn from its
pages, the compilation of a full and analytical
dIgest,-including more than fifteen hundred
different titles. and morethan twenty thousand
points, os facts, and decisions, was a-work that,
the author has not hesitated to undertake., and
to carry out wittfa care and accuracy that are
perfectly astonishing. To obtain an authority,