YEAR BOOKS OF EDWARD II. Vol. IX (1311). Edited for
the Selden Society by G.- J. Turner. (Quaritch.)— Forty years ago the Selden Society was founded to publish some of the unprinted materials for the history of English law, and, with the support of both English and American lawvers,"it still continues its good work. We may safely say that its long series- of volumes, forbidding as they doubtless seem to the layman, have revolutionized. our ideas of the institutions of mediaeval Englandr----not . merely, the law courts but also Parliament and the Kirtg'S Council--and have thrown much new light on social - conditions as - well. Mr. G• J. Turner, who - has edited this new• volume with his wonted skill- and patience, contributes an important intro- ductory essay. He is convinced that the Year Books were compiled not by law students, but for, them, perhaps under the supervision of leading counsel. And he has an attractive new theory about the constitution of the court of Common Bench and the 'cir.euit systc_II under Edward the Second. The
Selden Society is to be congratulated. . . ,
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