1831.3 Monlhly Revieiv of Lilerahire. 685 



The Law of Husband and Wife, by a Solicitor. 



The volume contains, in a summary form, the whole law relative to Husband 

 and Wife, as well with regard to persons as property. To this subject, itself 

 embracing numerous points of importance and interest, is added a similar survey 

 of the law respecting Breach of Promise of Marriage, Seduction and Abduction. 

 The particulars are given of numerous recent cases in illustration ; and among 

 them are detailed those of Mrs. Honeysett, Lord Hawke, Lady Ellenborough, 

 Miss Foote, Miss Turner, &c. The whole is exceedingly well got up, and forms 

 an admirable book of reference for the subject — amply sufficient for laymen, if 

 not for lawyers, though the latter will find all they can require in the common 

 course of practice. 



Valpy's Classical Library. Vol. XXHL 



Mr. Valpy follows up his purpose with the punctuality of the Calendar. The 

 twenty-third volume of the Classical Library commences the Langhornes' Trans- 

 lation of Plutarch's Lives. The book is, we presume, familiar to most persons, 

 for it has been repeatedly reprinted, and may be found in most private libraries 

 of any extent. It could not well, however, be omitted in such a collection. It 

 is, we believe, respectably executed ; for, as to Plutarch's meaning, no trans- 

 lator, with any decent qualification for the task, could well mistake it ; and the 

 Langhornes were both men of considerable acquirement. 



A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, by 

 John Burke, Esq. Vol. I. — Containing England. 



Mr. Burke is the author of the best Peerage and Baronetage of the day, now 

 in the hand of every one who desires (and who, from one motive or other, does 

 not ?) to know something of those who govern not only the tastes, habits, and 

 sentiments of society, but exercise an hereditary authority which annihilates 

 that of all other classes in the state. The present volume contains the extinct 

 peerages of England, together with such as are dormant and in abeyance — an 

 immense list, embracing all the historical names of the country from the Con- 

 quest. In any natural order, the extinct should have preceded the existing 

 peerages, especially as the latter, for the most part, are descended from the 

 former, or in some degree allied. But these matters depend more upon the 

 trader than the writer, and to him it was obvious enough, that the extinct could 

 only be towed on by the existing peerage — and needs must, when the publisher 

 drives. The work must have been one of immense toil, and is executed, appa- 

 rently, with great fidelity. It becomes an indispensable companion for English 

 history. We observe the Devereuxs, Earls of Essex, are omitted — but omissions 

 are inevitable — they can only be supplied by degrees. 



The Family Topographer, by Samuel Tymms. Vol. I. 



This first portion of a compendious account of the history and antiquities of 

 the English counties, embraces the five which constitute the judicial division, 

 called the Home Circuit. The plan includes descriptions of the situation and 

 extent — the ancient state and remains — the jiresent state and appearance — 

 eminent natives — with a miscellaneous class of odds and ends. The whole is 

 exceedingly brief, as may be readily supposed, from the five counties not occu- 

 pying more than 220 small |)ages. in the miscellaneous de[)artment arc gathered 

 together some curious, but also many insignificant, occurrences. In the county 

 of Essex, the compiler registers thus — At Birdbrokc was buried, 1G81, Martha 

 Blewitt, who was the wife of nine husbands successively. The text of her 

 funeral sermon was — " last of all, the woman died also" — though the ninth sur- 

 vived her. 



At Jilackmore is a spot called Jericho, once a retreat of Henry VIII., whence 

 arose the cant phrase of — gone to Jericho. 



