The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24
A NORTH CAROLINIAN'S
WORK HIGHLY HON0RED
How Hanns Taylor and His Historical Treatise on
the British COnstituion---V0cabu
of Learned and Illiterate.

uo not KNOW personally Hon. Han
his Taylor, LII. d., ex-Mnister Pleni-
potentiary to Spain, and a distinguish
ed author. He was born at New Bern,
North Carolina, and is certainly man
of remarkable intellectual powers Re-
Gently two British Universities have
conferred upon him the degree of LII.
d., making it three times that he has
been thus honored. One of those con-
1errlng the degree was the great, an
clent University of Oxford. with its
several hundreds of years, and it's high
renoWn. l have written several times
IN praise of DR.. Taylor, within the
last seven or eight years, and still
never sent him a line l had written. L
do not remember that with nearly
forty years of journalistic experience,
and writing in appreciation of so many
men of repute, that 1 ever sent to one
OF them what L had written unless re-
quested. L did not write to tickle vani-
ty, awake a sense of obligation or to
have return of favor. 1 did not
Write upon the principle, you tickle my
elbow and l will scratch your back.
wrote from a higher sense of obli-
cation, to recognize merit and to in
Vlte deserved attention to those of
whom written. / put no North Caro-
llnlan abroad, with but one possible
exception, Rev. Dr. w. w. Moore. with
DIR. Taylor in ability, and none in per-
formance. He has beyond fair doubt
written by much odds the ableSt work
that thus far has been produced by
any North Carolina, living or dead.
past or present. 1t is very superior and
now famous work on the British Con-
Stitution. 1t is "a work of which to be
proud. 1t is the production of a finely
disciplined and vigorous mind, show
oh; 10
grasp and formulate great principles.
1t is in two large volumes, octave, and
is textbook in important seats of
learning in. the old and new worlds
In Great Britain it is highly appre-
ciated and used. 1t has been well
praised by writer's of fame in special
departments and by eminent authors
In fields quite similar to that in which
DR.. Taylor has achieved such a pro-
nounced success. The full title of his
great work is 1.-The Origin and Growth
of the English Constitution" 1t is
stated by the author that it is IAN
Historical Treatise, in which is drawn
out, by the light of the most recent
researches, the gradual development of
the English Constitutional System. and
the growth out of that System, of the
Federal republic of the United States.'
This able work is being appreciated
more and more abroad and in this
seventh edition, and the second, pub
iished years later, is in it's third edi-
ton, price for set $500. It bears the
imprint of Houghton, Miff1in & Co.
Boston and New York, the leading
New England publishers. The work
has been formally adopted by the
Senate OF the University of Dublin is
used at the Universities of Oxford,
England, and Edinburgh, Scotland. 1t
is also adopted either as a textbook
or a book of reference by many of the
leading American Universities and Law
Schools. / copy extracts that show its
high appreciation.
mo other book exhibits so clear a
view OF the English Constitution,
broadening down from precedent to
edent.'-Montagu Burrows Chi
vhele Professor of Modern History in
the University of Oxford.
The most thorough, the most scien-
tific, and most readable work upon the.
origin of our institutions which has
yet appeared or is likely to appear. -
Boston Advertiser.
1.-THE work gives every promise of
becoming recognized as an authorita-
tive summary of the entire evolution
of Anglo-American constitutional Ii
berty and government."-New York
Law Journal.
Dr. Taylor has published a second
work which is entitled "a Treatise on
International Public Law"-one octa-
Vo volume, price $3.50 net, Callaghan
< Company, Chicago, publishers.
know nothing of it save what | have
read in a few very recent references
to it, Like his first work it is highly
Endorsed by those who are qualified to
speak of it. For instance, the Har
ward Law Review has characterized it
as 1.-The best American work since
Wheaton, and the Law Quarterly Re-
Il hat fIai
book is, probably, on the whole, the
fullest treatise in the language on it's
subject
A scholarly, able teacher, V. H. Ro
berts, Professor of International Law,
Drake University, gives this strong
commendation: Il know of no work in
modern times in any language, unless
/ except the masterpiece of Won Mar
tens, the eminent Russian authority,
which can be compared in point of
scholarly treatment and thorough
mastery of the subject with this work
by DR.. Taylor. American jurispru-
dence is to be congratulated on the
addition of work which must rank as
masterpiece"
OF all North Carolinians he has been
most highly honored in authorship,
and what is better, he richly deserved
it. In all my reading for nearly
dozen years perhaps, | have never seen
out one adverse opinion 10 Ills llTSl
work, and that was from a Northern
writer. So / feel warranted in the
opinion that it is a work of more
genuine importance, and by great
deal, than even Hon. Thomas II. Ben
TONS Thirty Years in the United
States Senate, a work of uncommon
interest and Astounding in instruction
in legislation and political history dur
ing the long period of which it treats,
Colonel Benton's huge work is, sup
pose the best expression of vigor of
thought and political wisdom of any
book that emanated from North
Carolina native prior to the publica-
ton of DR.. Tayiors important work
Colonel Benton was born in the coun-
ty of Orange, some two or three miles
from the old colonial village of Hills
bcro, and in youth attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina He held a
very high rank in the Senate when
there were in it really great men
Webster, Calhoun. Clay and few 9TH
ers. He represented Missouri having
gone to that new State when young
DIR. Taylor is distinguished lawyer,
living in Mobile, Alabama. He is a