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NIw LAW Book The Pracnce IN Courts oil Ju ce III
England and the United States. By CONWAY ROBIN
SON Vol w., as to PeAdings on Per. DUAL Actions
teaching par iculiry Of Declarations and giving Forms
thereof" Richmond A Morris; West Johnston.
Washington +. Taylor Baltimore Cushing & Bal
lev. Philadelphia H. p r. Ii. Small: 1860.
The appearance of Mr.. Robinsons fourth volume has
been haled with real satisfaction by all his professional
brethren who have had OCCASION from tue inpec
ton of ts predecessors know the value Of the labor
and learning which, in this work, he is contributing TO
the common stock of the brotherhood. Some malicious
ayuan by the way) has said that the brotherhoOd OF
the bar Is that of Cain and Abel But this fling is direct
ed against groveers in the obscure raynes about the
base of the aw-moun all and does not approach tho
Who ike Mr.. Robinson, have climbed ITS rugged Steep
Sir James Macintosh says 1--WE quote from memory
something like this: 1.-THE law ia high mountain, steep
and toisome indeed in its first assent but whose top Il
crowned With eternal verdure" 1t Ia one of the facts
which give peculiar value TO Mr. Robnsons work. that
having by due and faithful gradaOns reached this re-
eion OF clover he has been wiling in the prime and
yiror of his life to withdraw himself in great degree
from the active practice of his profession aud foregoing
its daily donors and rewards to shut himself up in his
library and devote all bis energies to the orderly mar
shang of his abundant OF learning and e1pe-
renee in this valuable book.
Book manufacture in the department of the law as
elsewhere has got to be something Of trade, which in
measure controlled by the craft of publishers Clever
aud s,udous young who have little or no practice,
professors, and other of the closet constitute ths
class in the main, from whom the modern essays and
| treatises come. 1t is exceedingly that anybody
brings to the task the qualifications Of expe-
rpnced practitioner and learned doctor in the law
Mr. Robinson does. la this work Of his, dgested and
arranged could only be done by who has exps-
enced the necessities of the profession he has deposited
all the materials English and American down to the
time Of bis writiEg which useful desirable for the
examination oil questions which have arisen, are likely
to arise under the several heads Of which he trel 1t
Is not book Of Practice in the narrow aud technical
sense of that Nor is il q compihtor 1t Is rather
series Of reatses upon the various subjects embraced
in the general divisions indicated by the title pages Of his
respective volumes Thus his first, which relates TO the
place and time Of transactions legal proceedings treats
Chiefly of the conflict Of laws, and the statutes OF na-
ton : aud this under minute subdivisions made by a
practical mind So in his second, which treats of the
Right of Attiln; Al in his third which.s Of Personal
Actions with respect the parties who may sue and he
sued the form Of action and the frame Of the pleadngs
Under each head we have all the authorities English and
American OF any weight referred to, and the leading
cases especially where there Is an apparentor real con-
hc criticised with marked ability generally leading the
mind of the doubter satisfactory conclusion. If one
be in haste to refresh his recollection determine bis
course he can do no better than TO 10 Robnsons
Practice il the subject be there discussed The present
volume is of great value to the Pleader.