The King's Peace. By F. A. Inderwick, Q C. (Swan
Sonnen- schein and Co.)—This volume is one of the "Social England
Series," edited by Mr. Kenelus D. Cotes. Mr. Inderwick defines his task by the sub-title of "A Historical Sketch of the English Law Courts,"— subsequently, in his preface, limiting it to the "Superior Courts." Even thus limited, the subject is large enough. If all the Courts of first instance, general and local, had been included, one volume would certainly have been found insufficient. Even now, when simplification has been going on for some years, there is a great variety of detail to be dealt with. When we go back, as Mr. Inderwick has to do, to the past, we have nothing less than a mighty maze. Our author has not, we think, a first-rate gift of exposition, but he will be found a useful guide.
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