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THE COMPENDIUM OF LAW.
hultum in Parvs, by hon. C. A. Culbsrson
The State Of Texas Publisher.
To The Statesman:

The State Of Texas Publisher.
To The Statesman:
This uniqua treatise, concise, yet
comprehensive, is the authors first
book, and we trust not his last, in fact
we can assure the profession that it is
not, for the author has the second
volume Of the Compendium we'll under
way.
The present volume of the Compen-
dunn of Law was published and dis.
tributed solely at the expense of an
admiring patron of the author, under
whose direction it was judiciously and
gratuitously distributed to attract at.
tention to his abilities.
The anticipated results have 80 fully
justified the wisdom of this gratui.
tous distribution that the fret edition
was entirely incommensurate with the
demand, and the learned author
found himself famous long before the
edition was exhausted.
The authors fame, though great,
would have known no bounds except
for his unfortunate modesty which
gave the compendium a misnomer,
For many who received the compen-
dunn did not suspect that under its
unpretentious title lay hidden such
rare legal treasure.
For more than half century the
patron publisher has eLdeavored to
secure this compendium of law, and
that end has employed such ability as
Thos. j. jennings, Malcolm Graham,
Jack Hamilton, VIM. M. Walton,
George Clark, and more recently the
Hon. James Stephen Hogg, all of
whom ignOninimously failed to pro.
duce the Compendium of Law. Each
wrote one or more books known as
the Attorney Generals Reports, tut
the publisher found only limited de-
mand for any OF them, as evidenced
by the great number of each still on
hand. Not so with the report by the
present author, for under its modest
cover alone is found mutual leges in
parve. Not q single copy of which
can be found in any of the many do.
partments of the patron publisher, ex.
cept that in the hands of the author
himself,
Modestly this compendium of law
appended to the "report of the"
covers only 50 pages, and by the au-
thor is divided into 81 chapters styled
"Important opinions of general in
terest"
A casual inspection will convince
the most skeptical that the entire
field of legal knowledge has been full.
ly covered by toe able author aud his
| first, second and third assistants. The
law is intelligently expounded, whrer
all was darkness light now shines.
You know that your sweetheart, if o.
full age may officiate as notary pub
lie, but it is not 80 plain that your
mOther.in-law can take your ac-
acknowledgement (see opinion PIP. 81 OF
SEQ J: that though you are sister of
charity you may teach your ideas
how to shoot (pp. 81 ct seq J; that you
must ride in coach of your own COL
or Opp. SO ct seq J: that you cannot OBJ
tain an extraordinary meal from q
restaurant on Sunday and that you
must not desecrate the Sabbath by
guzzling soda water and milk shakes
Up. SOY, that you may indulge in n
game of draw in gamb-
ling house and defy a
justice of the peace Opp. IS, 7-9) and
that the bubble lands are sacred ill.,
heritanGe of your children and their
children of scholastic age; and the
Legislature is powerless to grant a
pittarce thereof to an INDECENT veter.
an. Though he survived Goliad, San
Jacinto and Bexar, he may die in
penury, the Legislature to thecontrary
Notwithstanding. The sacred half in
terest of your children in the public
lands, permeates the whOle-which is
not susceptible Of Legislative division
opp. 65, 6T.
In the second volume, it will pro-
baby be determined, whether just
ice of the peace and ex-otticio notary
public, may certify that in his official
capacity he has examined his wife
seperate and apart from her husband.
To Populists shame be it said, that
an able bodied candidate for congress
had the temerity, to refer to the au
thors of the compendium as legal
Kindergarten. This Populist never
saw multae leges in parvo.
The authors patron publisher, will
early in January bring out the second
NOlull6 Vi InO hpOluluhi' l. LIS
patron, also publishes the Texas SUI
preme court reports; and so strong is
the conviction that the Compendium
covers the whole ground, the fires are
now being kindled under the melting
pot; and the metal plates OF the Texas
| Reports will be utilized to bring out q
mammoth edition of the complete
compendium OF laws.
There il no doubt but that as per-
fected by the second volume, the COM
pendulum will, in Texas at least, meet
every demand for legal knowledge.
The state of Texas published this
compendium of law in January, 1898,
and will bring out the second volume
in January, 1895; both volumes by the
Hon. Chas. A. CulbersOn, and his
first, second and third assistants, and
entitled Report of the Attorney Cen
eral. If you can procure copy, ex-
anime it-don't try to get it in Austin,
unless you apply TO First Assistant
Frank Andrews; he has the only copy
here, Ora pro nobis.
JNO w. MADDOX,
Austin, June 26
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