New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-02
Criminal Law.

4 TREATISE on rlrE CRIMINAL Law or rHr UNITED
STATES. comprising Digest o; the Penal statutes OF
the General Government and OF Massachusetts. New
York. Pennsylvania and Virginia, with ;he Decisions
Cases arising upon those statutes together with ;ae
English and American Authorities upon Criminal Law
in General By FRANCIS WHARTON, vol. cvo PIP
6cS. Philadelphia James nay, Inn. and Brother.
This IS a treatise on Criminal Law which we con.
slider one OF the most valuable which has yet been
given to the public 1t is composed of SIX Books
lucidly arranged and ably exPounding the subjects
on which they sreat. l, is volume valuable not
only to the student aud professional advocate but
also to every citizen DESTROYS OF becoming acquaint
ed with criminal Jurisprudence In the few rca,isss we
already possess the of the authors has been
more confined to the examination OF local Statutes de
hninc particular offences than applied to the invesss
ton OF general principles but the present volume not
only gives in ample detail the Statutes defining offences
where the Common Law is silent but shows what alter
atoms and restrictions affect the Common Law and are
peculiar 20 the Government under which We live The
judicial decisions nooted points OF the various Fed
era and Courts act forth with mucn discrin'
nation and in such manner 10 show ths reasons
governing the adjudication the subject in dispute
The examination OF what offences indctable and in
Whist Court cognizabc, OF principal snd accessory and
an inquiry into the powers OF the respective and state
OF deriurrers and pleas compose the first Book The sec
ond and third Books relate to evidence and offences
against the person the fourth and fifth Books to offences
against society and the sixth the trial and ts Incl
dents The mulafarous subjects treated of in the dif
.rent Books are accompanied with references to the u
dicM decisions sustaining the tex Those references
are very copious comprising the latest decisions OF the
English and American Courts Among the mass OF val
liable and wedi-estcd information will be found much
ha, peculiar 10 the work itself and which supplies the
deficiencies of other treases It is peculiarly accept
able TO the inexperienced practitioner who can acquire
more knowledge from its perusal than he could other
wise obtain by the loose reading aud practice OF years
1t occupies the relative position TO our Criminal
Law that is occupied By Russell. Roscoe and Archbod
in British Jurisprudence and hail with pleasure and
with pride the existence OF work bearing the impress
Of American genus and which IN legal literature will,
we doub; not be found in the library OF every lawyer,
beside the productions of a Story and Kent We uu'
derstnnd that the author Is but young man. who hiss
thus given 20 his professional brethren and the public
this evidence OF insured and powerful mind ard
much d. hope that the which VII attend the
present work Will prove incentive TO renewed eSer-
non in his legal research and literary labors. We I'M
derstand that Messrs Gould & Banks the agents for
the sale of this valuable work in this city.
THE MARTYRS OF BOHEMIA Or Brief Memoirs OF Jonn
Hu-s and Jerome OF Prague. Edited by pANIEL
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Of the Methodist Episcopal ChuIch.
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printed handsomely on good paper, and sold at the
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great Il eligious movement which took place IN Bo
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