Mr. STEWART'S Principles of the Law of Real Property, is
a valuable addition to the Student's Law Library ; and will form. a useful book to many, who, not designing to be lawyers, yet wish to have knowledge sufficient to comprehend the nature of the deeds their legal friends are doing about their estates. The basis of this book is the second volume of Blackstone's Commentaries,— one of the most elegant expositions of one of time driest and !b. strusest subjects, ever written: but, alas! English laws, like British constitutions, are mutable; many changes have been made since the time of the great Commentator, and more especially awe the downfal of the equally great Duke ; SO that the pure i slat of BLacessorm s frequently worse than a dead letter, inns- teuch as it would mislead. To remedy this, MP. STEWART has °revised the original ; expunging that which is no longer existent, correcting that which would be erroneous, and interweaving the Dew alterations in the original text, which he has broken down books and chapters. In dPng this, no gap is left apparent ; Dor is the reader bewildered by marks or dashes, but the student is directed, by a marginal reference, to the pages of BLACKSTONE, if lie pieRSO to consult him. The wurk, therefore, reads conti- nuously and like a whole ; but to us, who pricked for the changes s power," " Descent," and " Fines and Recoveries," and who are more bound to be nice in language, Mr. STEWART'S changes were or seemed to be obvious by a greater plainness, but not a i
greater clearness n style.
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