"This is decidedly a clever book. We always welcome cordially any genuine effort to strike out a new line of legal exposition, not merely because such effort may more effectually teach law, but because it may exhibit a better method than we now possess of expressing law. The author does not venture to use the term ' codification' in speaking of the design of this book. He is content if he has made a single step in advance towards simplification, and so much merit we have no hesitation in awarding to him. From the extracts we have made it is manifest that the author has followed the fashion neither of the ordinary text-book nor the plan of a digest of cases, but that he has developed a method nearly approaching to 'codification.' We have been at pains to search the book for many of the most recent cases in marine insurance, and although some of them are exactly of a character to puzzle and embarrass a codifier, Mr. Crump has dealt successfully with them. We think we may fairly congratulate the author upon the production of a work original in design, excellent in arrangement, and as complete as could fairly be expected."-Law Journal.

"Alphabetically arranged this work contains a number of the guiding principles in the judge-made law on this subject, which has got into such a tangle of precedents that a much less careful digest than that under the above title would have been welcome to students as well as merchants. Mr. Crump has made a very commendable effort at brevity and clearness."-Economist.

"The plan of the work differs materially, and, we think, advantageously, from the ordinary text-book. We have examined several of Mr. Crump's propositions in order to test him on these points, and the result is decidedly in his favour. We have no hesitation in commending the plan of Mr. Crump's book; its use in actual practice must, of course, be the ultimate gauge of its accuracy and completeness; but from the tests that we have applied we have little doubt that it will stand the ordeal satisfactorily."-Athenæum.

"His design is to compile a digested summary of rules, tersely expressed and easy of reference; and though such a work can never supersede treatises like those of Arnould, Phillips, or Duer, he has produced what will be a very useful

manual of reference and will guide the practitioner to the sources where he will find the principles more fully developed. The work, which must have involved great labour, appears to us to have been executed with fulness, accuracy and fidelity, and its value is much increased by references not only to English and American decisions and text writers, but to the French and German law on the same subject. Considering the narrow compass within which it is comprised, we have been surprised to find how complete and comprehensive it appears to be; and if further experience should justify the expectations which our perusal of it induces us to form, Mr. Crump will not be disappointed in his hope that he has made a step in advance towards simplification-not to use the term codification-of the law.""-Solicitors' Journal.

"There are many portions of it well arranged, and where the law is carefully and accurately stated."-Law Magazine.

"We rejoice at the publication of the book at the head of this notice. Mr. Crump is a bold man, for he has positively made an innovation. Instead of a ponderous tome, replete with obsolete law, useless authorities and antiquated quotations, we have a handy, clearlywritten and well-printed book, seemingly containing the whole law on the subject, in the shape of a digest of decided cases, in the very words of the judges, and leaving nothing doubtful and misleading to beguile the reader. Mr. Crump's book seems very perfect, and is certainly very clear in its arrangement and complete in its details, conscientiously going into the most minute points and omitting nothing of importance."-Irish Law Times.

"The subject-matter of the book in every instance is printed in large type, and the clauses followed by smaller letters of reference. This makes the work convenient for consultation, and the law cases being appended to every paragraph with quotations from the laws of foreign countries, its conciseness in the mode of explanation tends to render the author's reasons intelligible more readily than they would otherwise have been if overlaid by laborious dissertations upon the cases and effects of decisions on disputed points. Mr. Crump, we may observe, in this treatise of the law of Average and Insurance, has supplied a ready armoury of reference."--Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.

"Twelve editions in twenty-eight years say more for the practical utility of this work than any number of favourable reviews. Yet we feel bound to accord to the learned Recorder of Bath the praise of having fully maintained in the present edition the well-earned reputation of this useful book. The many important statutes passed since the eleventh edition appeared, only four years since, and which either impose new duties upon or modify the old law administered by Justices of the Peace, have been carefully incorporated in the present work. Among these we may notice in the legislation of the last session alone the Acts concerning Cruelty to Animals, Drugging of Animals, Elementary Education, Industrial and Provident Societies, Merchant Shipping, the Poor Law, Salmon Fishing, and Wild Fowl Protection. A copious Index of over 100 pages offers every facility of reference which can be desired, in addition to the alphabetical and tabular arrangement of offences, with their penalties, punishments, and procedure."-Law Magazine, February,

1877.

All we can do in reviewing a new edition of a work, on the general plan of which the profession has justly conferred so distinguished a mark of approval as is involved in a twelfth edition, is to see whether the statutes and cases which have been passed and decided within the four years which have elapsed since the last edition have been duly incorporated. They appear, on the points on which we have tested the book, to have been noticed by Mr. Saunders with considerable care. The Index has been very greatly improved, and has become a valuable feature of the work."Solicitors' Journal, Oct. 28th, 1876.

"The industrious, capable and painstaking Recorder of Bath (Mr. T. W. Saunders) has edited the twelfth edition of Oke's Magisterial Synopsis. The law administered by magistrates, like almost every other branch of our jurisprudence, goes on growing almost every day of the legal year, and a new edition of such a work as this every few years means no small amount of labour on the part of the editor. The array of statutes which have been passed during the last four years requiring the attention of justices is formidable enough, as appears by Mr. Saunders' preface. We are glad to sce that Mr. Saunders has bestowed great care in the revision of the Index,

which is now a feature in the work."Law Times, Oct. 21st, 1876.

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The first edition of this work was published in 1848, and contained 410 pages. The twelfth edition has now been published, and contains 1,579 pages. Both of these facts have their moral. The first proves how great a reward waits upon a genuine success in legal literature: the second proves what immense labour is cast upon the author who endeavours to win the reward. We believe the issue of twelve editions of a large law book within the space of twenty-eight years to be without precedent in the history of legal literature, and we are quite sure that the result has in this case not at all exceeded the merit of the work. It will be remembered that the first eleven editions were issued by Mr. Oke himself; so that, although he lived too brief a time for his friends and for the public good, yet time was given him to establish his own reputation, and to gain the prize for which he strove. The new edition now before us has been brought out under the superintendence of Mr. Saunders, the Recorder of Bath, whose name is well known in legal literature. Mr. Saunders has for many years made many of the subjects which fall within the scope of magisterial jurisdiction his special study, and we are not at all surprised that he should have been selected to carry on the work of Mr. Oke. Although only four years have elapsed since the eleventh edition of the work appeared, and although the new editor was in no wise called upon to recast the form or manner of the work, or to change in any way the nature of its contents, yet it must not be supposed that his task has been at all limited to the mere lending of his name to the new edition imperatively required by the exhaustion of the former issue. The list of statutes passed since 1872, and having near relation to magisterial work, is far from small; and, as we have often had occasion to observe, the provisions of every Act of Parliament designed to improve the sanitary and social condition of the community derive their compulsory force from the summary procedure taken before justices. A host of acts with these salutary objects have been passed since 1872, and all these have been introduced into the work, and put in their proper places, so that they can be found, as wanted, by justices, justices' clerks and solicitors."-Law Journal, Nov. 18, 1876.

"In Mr. Saunders' preface will be found an enumeration of statutes which were not even in embryo at the time when Mr. Oke brought out the last edition of his valuable Formulist. Therefore Mr. Saunders has not been called upon to perform the functions of an annotator merely. He has had to create just as Mr. Oke created when he wrote his book. This of course has necessitated the enlargement and remodelling of the Index. No work, probably, is in more use in the offices of magistrates than Oke's Formulist. That it should be reliable and comprehend recent enactments is of the very first importance. In selecting Mr. Saunders to follow in the steps of Mr. Oke the publishers exercised wise discretion, and we congratulate both author and publishers upon the complete and very excellent manner in which this edition has been prepared and is now presented to the profession."-Law Times, March 4th, 1876.

"In noticing the fifth edition of the companion work to the Synopsis we cannot forbear to express again our regret that the original author of these two famous books no longer among us, able and willing to give to the legal world new editions of those treatises which are likely to preserve their reputation as long as the law which they teach lasts. The duty of editing anew the Magisterial Formulist has fallen upon the Recorder of Bath, whose experience and industry ought to furnish a guarantee that in his hands a work of so much value and celebrity will not lose any of its former attributes. There is not a member of this most important and intelligent class of men (magistrates' clerks) who has not learned to look upon Oke's Formulist as a trusty friend and safe guide in the moment of need, and who will not welcome an edition which embraces the novel matter required by fresh legislation. When we find that 900 pages are occupied with these forms, and that the index alone consists of 100 pages, we can form some idea of the task which Mr. Saunders has undertaken, the performance of which ought to add to his repute.

Mr. Saunders has compiled a new table of statutes connected with the forms, an addition which will certainly be found useful."-Law Journal, March 4th, 1876.

"This well-known work stands no longer in any need of introduction or recommendation; it is not so much the convenience as the necessity of every person who has to conduct or advise the conduct of a magistrate's business. Although all will join with the present editor in lamenting that the public can no longer command the services of the accurate and experienced author, yet we see no reason to think that they will suffer through the duty of re-editing this valuable collection of forms having devolved upon Mr. Saunders, who seems to have performed his task with the care and accuracy which he has accustomed us to expect from him. His labour has not been a light one, for, as he points out, recent legislation has not only added to the already wide field of magisterial duties, but has also, by the process of consolidation, as well as by considerable substantive alterations, varied the necessary forms. These changes have been duly followed, and the work, which was last edited in 1868, may now be relied upon as a safe and complete guide in the matter it relates to."-Solicitors' Journal, April 29th, 1876.

"The last edition of this very useful work was published in 1868, since which time, in addition to numerous amending and consolidating acts bearing upon magistrates' law, other important statutes have come into effect. New forms, applicable to these and other acts, have been prepared with much care by the learned editor of the present edition (Mr. Saunders), while those which have become inapplicable have been eliminated. Besides the table of contents, a table of statutes, connected with the forms, has been added, and an unusually copious index leaves nothing to be desired by those who have to administer the branch of the law to which Oke's Magisterial Formulist relates."-Law Magazine, August, 1876.

"The task of bringing out a third edition has fallen upon Mr. Bund. Several important statutes bearing upon the subject have been passed since 1863, and many important decisions given by the courts. With these the author has dealt in a careful and complete manner, and on the whole he seems to have succeeded in maintaining the just reputation of the work."-Law Journal.

"Mr. Willis Bund has edited a third edition of Oke's Game Laws.' The changes in the law by statute and the reported cases to the end of 1876 are duly noted. Notwithstanding Mr. Bund's modest estimate of his labour, we think he sustains the reputation of the author." -Law Times.

"The present publication has, we are happy to say, fallen into the able hands of Mr. Willis Bund. In conclusion, we may observe that the present edition of the above work will be found by legal men or others who require any reliable information on any subject connected with the Game Laws, of the greatest practical utility, and that landed proprietors, farmers and sportsmen will find Oke's Game Laws' an invaluable addition to their libraries, and an easy means of enlightening themselves on a subject which closely affects them."-Land and Water.

"This is a new and revised edition of a most useful handy-book."-Bell's Mes

passed since the death of Mr. Oke is admirable. The editor in the present instance deserves unqualified praise, for, by way of assisting the reader, there is the contents table showing the particular matters dealt with under each separate chapter, an alphabetical list of cases cited with the page in which they may be found, a table of statutes referred to with their pages, and a most comprehensive index." -Worcester Herald.

"Under the competent care of Mr. Bund, Messrs. Butterworth have issued a third edition of Oke's excellent handybook upon the Game Laws. Since the last edition was published such new measures as the Gun License Act, the Wild Birds Preservation Act, the Sea Birds Preservation Act, and others in the same direction have been passed. Of these full cognizance is taken in the new issue. Signally comprehensive and exact is the information supplied, and the volume is an indispensable companion, not only to country gentlemen and magistrates, but to all dealers in game and every person possessing a gun."-Sunday Times, April 22nd, 1877.

"A book on the Game Laws, brought up to the present time, and including the recent acts with regard to wild fowl, &c., was much needed, and Mr. Willis Bund has most opportunely supplied the want by bringing out a revised and enlarged edition of the very useful handy-book of which the late Mr. Oke was the author." -The Field.

"Mr. Glen has done his work well. He has made the book of 1872 available as a book of reference in 1874. It is very fortunate that there is a well indexed treatise to refer to."-Law Journal.

"Mr. Oke has brought out by far the best edition of the act, or perhaps we should say a treatise on it. Everything

appears to be given which can by possibility be required, and the forms are abundant."-Law Times.

"The book will no doubt at once take its place as the recognized guide for those who have to do with licensing law. The table of offences is especially valuable." -Solicitors' Journal.