The Builders of Our Law. By Edward Manson. (Horace Cox.)
—These thirty-five papers, reprinted from the Law Times, give the biographies of as many Judges, beginning with Lord Cottenham, who was Lord Chancellor when the Queen came to the throne, and ending with Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the "last of the Barons (of the Exchequer)." Mr. Manson mentions the case of "Regina v. Tawell," and Kelly's strange defence of the prussic- acid to be found in apple-pips. He does not appear to have observed a case lately reported from Vienna in which a number of apple- pips actually caused death. The biographies are interesting and well written, and give the leading cases which the Judge in question decided. But is not the title, The Builders of Our Law, a little too strong ? Much of our law is doubtless "Judge-made," but hardly so much as to justify this term.
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