The Legal Profession: Viewed in the Light of its Past
History, its Present State, and Projected Lau: Reforms. Edited by Doctor-in-Jure- Civili. (Ridgway.)—The author of this book appears to have gone through a somewhat wide, if very miscellaneous course of reading as a preparation for his work. He has certainly collected a body of materials which will have some value to all who are associated with the legal profession, or who take an interest in its history. There is, however, such a total absence of system and arrangement in the book, that it is a difficult task to read it, and almost impossible to remember it. We are taken backwards and forwards, from dissertations on early history to remarks on tribunals of commerce. On one page we have dialogues between two briefless barristers on their prospects of business, and on the next, between two thriving attorneys, on the lessons to be drawn from the year-books ; and while we find that, in our author's opinion, both branches of the profession have their grievances, there does not seem to be any distinction between those which are inevitable and those which can bo cured, or any suggestion of a practical remedy for the latter. Thus the general effect is bewildering, and the author's industry has not produced an adequate result.
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