Miscellanies, 417 



how soon would they be able to effect the most desh-able improve- 

 ments, and to augment, an hundred fold, the resources and enjoy- 

 ments of their subjects ! War is madness ; it settles nothing as to 

 right, 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 bad 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 parsuits 5 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, &;c. &: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 npt 

 without interest and even amusement to the general reader,) affords 

 another instance of that division of hterary and professional labor, 

 which, as in practical arts and business, is necessary to excellence. 

 Theology and medicine have long, in 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 agenta 

 for the Journal of Heallh receive subscriptions for this work. 



