Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature...Law. 
man who fays, ‘ I fhall feel a great con- 
folation at the conclution of thefe leétures, 
if, by a wide furvey and an exact exami- 
nation of the condition and relation of 
human nature, I fhall have confirmed but 
one individual in the conviétion that juf- 
tice is the permanent intereft of all men, 
and of all commonwealths. To difcover 
one new link of that eternal chain by 
which the Author of the univerfe has 
bound together the happinefs and the 
duty of his creatures, and indiffolubly 
faftened their interefts to each other, 
would fill my heart with more pleafure 
than all the fame with which the moft 
ingenious paradox ever crowned the moft 
eloquent fophilt ?” 
The learned profeffor of civil law in 
the univerfity of Dublin, ARTHUR 
Browne, Efq. has publifhed, 4 com- 
pendious View of the Civil Law, beinz 
the fubftance of a courfe of leétures 
which he delivered there. Mr. B. ftates 
his principal objeét in the publication of 
the leétures to have been the evidence of 
his induftry ; he was defirous of fhewing 
that he did not wilh to enjoy the emolu- 
ments of his office without undergoing 
the fatigue of it. With this view he has 
laboured hard in his vocation—Go THOU 
AND DO LIKEWISE. A large propor- 
tion of our legal gentlemen are very in- 
fufiiciently acquainted with the Roman 
jurifprudence: Mr. Browne attributes 
this defect, “ not to want of diligence, 
but to the nature and quantity of the 
treatifes on the fubject, for in quantity and 
number they are abundant.” In order to 
facilitate the acquifition of a knowledge 
at leaft of the leading doétrines of a fci- 
ence * which was never de{pifed but by 
thofe who were ignorant of it,” Mr. 
Browne confidered that a work written 
in the method and order adopted by Mr. 
Juftice Blackftone in his Commentaries 
on the Laws of England, might intice 
the ftudent of the common law to cul- 
tivate an acquaintance with this more an- 
cient code. The prefent work is indeed 
a compendrous view of the civil law, fo 
much fo, that the author has thought it 
neceffary, not indeed to apologife but to 
ftate his reafons, for its brevity : to thofe 
who are already well verfed in the {cieoce, 
it can only be of ufe as an abridgement 
in adjumentum memorice ; and thole who 
are deterred by the prolixity of civilians 
from the ftudy of their works, who either 
have not fufficient time or not fufficient 
inclination for the puepers have Mela 
no right to object a eel the brevity an 
comp refed mater of the prefen: work. 
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Asa fequel to this volume, Mr. B. has it 
in contemplation to publith 4 Sketch of the 
Praétice of the Ecclefiaftical Courts, with 
Jome Cafes determined therein in Ireland, 
and fome ufeful Diredtions to the Clergy. 
In the confined fenfe of the word, there 
have tately been but few books of 
Law 
publifhed. We fhall enumerate the 
moft material of thofe which have re- 
warded ‘our fearch. The firft part of © 
volume vill. is publifhed of Reports of 
Cafes argued and determined in the Court of 
King’s Bench in Michaelmas Term, 1798, 
by C. Durnrorp and E. H. East of 
the Temple, Efgrs. as is the fourth part 
of Meffrs. BosaNQUET and PULLER’s 
Reports of Cafes, Sc. in the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas in Trinity and Michaelmas 
Terms 1798. Both thefe works do great 
credit to the reporters ; they are continued 
with much {pirit and accuracy. 
Mr. Bevinw’s Treatife on the Law of 
Homicide and of Larceny, at Common Law, 
is ftated to be part of a large work 
which for feveral years he has been pre~ 
paring, and which was intended to con- 
tain the law upon all the offences ufually 
tried ar the aflizes. The prefent treatife 
relates to two ojfences, upon which, fays 
Mr. B. there are many points that have 
been but inaccurately ftated, and many 
which are ftill open to litigation: he has 
therefore endeavoured to extraét all the 
principles by which the law as to thefe 
offences is governed; he has given a 
diftinét explanation of the law upon man- 
flaughter, in ail its cafes; and, as far as 
depends upon the law, has fucceeded in 
explaining the precife diftinétions between 
that offence and murder. In this valu- 
able work, Mr. Bevill has exhibited a 
great deal of acute difcrimination. The 
chapter on duelling is an excellent one. 
Mr. Tomiins of the Inner Temple 
(Editor of the Law Diétionary), has 
publifhed 4 digefied Index to the Seven 
Volumes of Term Reports in the Court of 
King’s Bench, containing a concife Statement 
of all the Points of Law determined in that 
ourt from Michaelmas Tern, 26 George 
to Trinity Term 38 George IL. 
1798, Wile ve, with Tables of Reference 
to the Names of Cafes, Statutes cited, 8c. 
The neceflity of an index to thefe reports 
was very obvious : Mr. Tomlins has fup- 
plied the defideratum in a copious, ac- 
curate, and methodical manner. 
The author of Thoughts on the Law 
of Forfeiture ang Parliamentary Attain Jer 
for Ezh Treafon, as applying ‘to the Bill 
[then depending in tbé frifo Parnanen, 
is 
