MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



LAW. 



Select Extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries, with a Glossary, 

 Questions, and Notes, by S. Warren, Esq., F.R.S., of the Inner 

 Temple. 8vo. Maxwell, Bell Yard, Lincoln's Inn. 



THE volume before us consists of extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries, 

 carefully divested of technicalities and such portions as might not be fit for 

 the eyes of very young readers and otherwise adapted for the purposes of 

 education. 



Mr. Warren, at whose suggestion and under whose superintendence these 

 extracts have been made, is the author of a very interesting and ingenious 

 work entitled " A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies," in 

 which is to be found the recommendation which caused this analysis to be 

 undertaken. 



The immediate object of this abridgment is to supply a manual, which shall 

 contain all the necessary information on those laws by which we are protected 

 and restrained, which we may be called upon to enforce with regard to others, 

 and the limits marked down which we may not transgress, whose functions 

 we may in the ordinary course of life be obliged to exercise and the due ad- 

 ministration of which is the safeguard of that liberty we all boast of and 

 prize. It is in fact a history of the rise, progress, and present state of the con- 

 stitution, which every Englishman is bound to be acquainted with, if he desires 

 to discharge well and efficiently his duties as a citizen. 



Men seldom will, and children never ought to attempt to make themselves 

 proficients in the entire work, which however excellent must necessarily be in 

 many parts dull and obscure to those who read for information and not to 

 acquire exact professional knowledge. But here in one small volume you 

 have a digest of all that is generally useful in the Commentaries ; and a more 

 entertaining book independently of its usefulness is not frequently met with. 

 It is generally admitted that Blackstone's style as an author is so pure and ex- 

 cellent, that he has imparted interest to the most uninteresting subjects, and 

 here we have the bright parts of a bright whole. The extracts have been very 

 judiciously made and comprise all that is desirable ; and we strongly recom- 

 mend all parents to provide their children with it, and to read it themselves (if 

 they be not previously acquainted with the subject), and all schoolmasters to 

 adopt it as a class-book. 



RELIGION. 



Miraculous and Internal Evidences of the Christian Revelation. By 

 T. Chalmers, D.D. 2 vols. post 8vo. Collins. Glasgow. 



Or the many talented metaphysicians which the two last centuries have pro- 

 duced, Mr. Hume was undoubtedly the subtlest and most acute, if not the 

 most solid and profound. These talents he unfortunately abused by employ- 

 ing them as weapons in an unceasing warfare against revealed religion ; and 

 certainly Saladin himself could not have battled more stoutly against the 

 armies of Christendom, than did David Hume against the advocates of Chris- 

 tianity. The free-thinkers before his time, with less subtlety and compre- 

 hensiveness of mind, had confined their scepticism to the historic facts on 

 which the religion is based, and had restricted their scurrilous and blasphe- 

 mous abuse to the holy precincts : but Hume, taking up fresh ground, enlarged 

 JAN. 1837. G 



