Philosophy of Law

No writer of the last century has written more extensively than the author of this book. It may well be doubted whether any writer in modern times has had as wide a knowledge or as sure a grasp of the subject here considered. He possesses not only remarkable learning but extraordinary intellectual powers which peculiarly fit him for a work of this character. No attempt will be made to refer to his other legal works or to his teaching and writings in other departments of literature, that having been so fully and ably covered in the editorial preface.

To any student of the law this book is most thought-provoking. It is one of the works from which the reader will be benefited even if he follows Bacon’s admonition and only “tastes it” and it also falls within the class of those few “to be chewed and digested.”