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more comprehensive and complete, and of adapting it specially to the 

 requirements of the English reader. He has also corrected and 

 confirmed M. Mangin's statements by reference to the best and most 

 recent authorities, without, he would hope, any injury to the original 

 scheme, or any detriment to the value of M. Mangin's agreeable and 

 highly interesting chapters.] A. 



