Miscellanies. ee 
how soon would they be able to effect the most desirable improve- 
ments, and to augment, an hundred fold, the resources and enjoy- 
ments of their subjects! War is madness; it settles nothing as to 
night, and when its rivers of blood have flowed and its millions have 
perished, the survivors can adjust their claims only by discussing them 
in a spirit of conciliation and justice, which they could have better 
done before they had mutually inflicted the most dreadful sufferings. 
24. Journal of Law.—This Journal appears in semi-monthly num- 
bers of sixteen pages each.* It is addressed to the People of the 
United States, and is devoted to the exposition, in popular language, 
of the philosophy, history, and actual state of law and government 
in different countries—of our own constitutions, state and national— 
laws, civil and criminal—judiciary systems and modes of procedure 
together with particular essays on those branches of the law, a knowl- 
edge of which may be most practically useful to men engaged in ac- 
tive pursuits; as, for instance, the law of corporations, patents, insur- 
ance, bills of exchange, and commercial and other contracts, in all — 
their varieties, real estate, with the modes of conveying it, insolvency, 
wills, descents, intestacy, 8c. &c. 
Reports of interesting decided cases, biographies of eminent law- 
yers and others, medical jurisprudence, sketches of the legal, literary 
and benevolent institutions of various countries, anecdotes, and the — 
various topics of general literature are within the scope of this journal. 
Its aim is to afford instruction without tediousness, and amusement - 
without frivolity. 
This journal, (useful we cannot doubt to the profession, and not 
without interest and even amusement to the general-reader,) affords 
another instance of that division of literary and professional labor, 
which, as in practical arts and business, is necessary to excellence. 
Theology and medicine have long, ip this country, had their appro- 
priate journals, and jurisprudence has, at former periods, called forth 
several attempts, and if they could not be sustained, it was probably 
because they were elaborate and voluminous. The present being in 
fact a newsletter of law, must command a much larger number of 
readers, and will, we presume, be adequately supported. 
* J. Dobson, 108 Chesnut street, Philadelphia; price $1.50 per annum. All agents 
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for the Journal of Health receive subscriptions for this wor 
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