The Law Magazine and Law Review. May, 1865. (Butterworth's.) —The
editorship of this magazine has, we are informed, recently changed hands, and an effort is to be made to impart to it, not perhaps a popular, but at least a less technical character. It will in future be devoted less to law than jurisprudence, but jurisprudence from a legal point of view. In this capacity it will be extremely useful, for there are innumerable questions of great social importance, and interestingto very large classes of the community, which must be looked at on this side as well as on thepopu- lar side before they can be satisfactorily settled. The lawyer's view of a subject is not the governing view, but a necessary one. Now lawyers always fancy it to be the governing view, and those who are not lawyers must borrow the legal spectacles to see as they see. And if under the present management The Law Magazine feleie the office of the legal spectacles for the public, it will discharge a most useful and much needed function. In this number most of the half-legal, half-social, questions of the day are carefully treated—" The Legal Position of the Church of England," "The Law of Divorce as Compared with that of America," "Criminal Responsibility," " The Patent Laws." Lighter papers are those on " Forsyth's Cicero" and "A Legal Triptych " in which Plunket Eldon and Romilly are coupled together one scarcely knows how, but so as to f0/111 an effective contrast.
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