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 SOULE'S LEGAL His three brothers, however, preferred the name of Westcote. Upon their mother's expostulating with them, and asking them whether they thought better of themselves than their elder brother, they answered, " that he had a fair estate to alter his name, and if they might share with him they would do the like." Coke thus goes on to record Littleton's career : " He was of the Inner Temple, and read learnedly upon the statute of W. II., De donis condt- tionalibtis. He was afterwards called ad siaiuiii et gradum servientis ad legem, and was steward of the Court of Marshalsea of the King's house- hold, and for his worthiness was made by King Henry VII. his sergeant and rode justice of assize the Northern Circuit ; which places he held under King Edward IV. until he, in the sixth year of his reign, consti- tuted him one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas [and granted him 1 10 marks yearly, tiltra consuetuiii feodum, nt statiun sumn deceniius teiieiet, et expensas stisliiiere voleref, and moreover the sum of io6j. y2d. for a robe and furs, and 66s. 6d. for a summer robe, called limira'], and he then rode the Northamptonshire Circuit. He married with Johan [widow of Sir Philip Chetwynd], one of the daughters and co-heirs of William Burley, a gentleman of ancient descent, and bare the arms of his family, argent a fess checkie or and azure, upon a lion rampant sable, armed gules."' He wrote his celebrated "Tenures" at some time prior to 1480. There is doubt as to when they were first printed. Sir Edward Coke reasoned that they must have appeared in print for the first time in 1532 ; but later investigation has disclosed several editions before that time, the first being that printed by Lettou and Machlivia, without date, but prob- ably about 148 1. Since then there have been numerous editions of Lit- tleton's Tenures (apart from Coke's Commentaries), the latest and best being that by Tomlins, published in 1841. Coke considered the Tenures to be " the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute w^ork that ever was written in any human science, and that it is a work of so absolute perfection in its kind, and as free Irom error, as any book that I have known to be written of any human learning." But Hottoman (who was Hottoman ?) criticises it thus : " Libellum ita incondite, absurde, et inconcinn^ scriptum, ut facile appareat verissimum esse, quod Polydorus Vergilius testatus est, stultitiam in eo libro, cum malitia et calumniandi studio, certare." Even to one not familiar with Latin, Hottoman and Polydorus Vergilius would appear to differ somewhat from Coke in his estimate of the Tenures. " The body of our author is honorably interred in the cathedral church of Worcester, under a fair tomb of marble, with his statue or portraiture upon it; ... and out of the mouth of his statue proceedeth this prayer. Fill Dei miserere mei, which he himself caused to be made and finished in his lifetime." The engraving given here, representing Littleton at prayer in his oratory, is a copy of one of ancient date, found in many of the old edi- tions of Coke upon Littleton ; the original being a picture, or stained window, in the church at Frankley. BARGAINS. The following are all in fine condition, except as noted. The prices, being unusually low, are 7iet cash. American. U. S. Digest. Original edition to 187 1. 31 vols $15.50 U. S. Supreme Court Reports. Brightly's edition. 115 vols, in 85 . . 210.00 Federal Reporter. 24 vols, and Digest 110.00 Michigan Reports. Full set, 57 vols 165.00 New Hampshire Reports. 59 vols, and Digest 250.00 New Jersey Reports. 85 vols. (Law, 46 vols. Equity, 39 vols.) . . . 200.00 Pennsylvania, Colonial Records and Pennsylvania Archives. 37 vols. . 75 00 Vermont Reports. (56 vols., and Tyler, 2 vols.) 58 vols 325 00 English, etc. Admiralty (1776-1852). English Admiralty Reports. Amer. ed. 9 vols. 45.00 Bacon's Abridgment. 7 vols 7.00 Bankruptcy (1810-1848). Rose to De Ge.x's English edidons. 24 vols. 10000 Chancery. English Chancery Reports. American edition. 69 vols. . 165.00 Law Reports (1865-1884). Chancery Appeals, 10 vols.; Equity Cases, 20 vols.; Chancery Division, 24 vols. 54 vols 150.C0 Vesey, Jr. Sumner's edition. 20 vols 50 00 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Comyn's Digest. 8 vols $15.00 Crown Cases (1800-1865). British Crown Cases, 6 vols.; Dearsly: Dearsly and Bell ; Bell ; Leigh and Cave. In all, 10 vols 35 00 English Common Law Reports. Complete, 121 vols. A perfect, but rough set 160.00 House of Lords. Clark and Finnelly. 12 vols. English edition. . 120.00 House of Lords Cases. 11 vols. American edition 25.00 Jacob's Fisher's Digest. 10 vols 22.50 King's Bench (1S17-1852). Barnewall and Alderson to Queen's Bench. 50 vols. English editions 75-oo Law Reports (1865-1875). Common Law and Equity Series. American and English editions. Complete, 69 vols 160.00 Moak's edition. 35 vols 75-oo Petersdorff's Abridgment. 20 vols ' 12 50 Pike's History of Crime. 2 vols 5.00 Railway and Canal Cases, 7 vols. ; Beavan and Walford, i vol. ; Neville and Macnamara, 4 vols. English editions. 12 vols. 1S55-1885. . ._ 6000 Rolls Court (complete). Tamh-n, l vol. ; Keene, 2 vols. ; Beavan, 36 vols. In all, 39 vols 240 00 State Trials (Howells). 34 vols 110.00 Statutes of Great Britain (1225-1776). 12 vols., quarto 25.00 Vice-Chancery. Hare, 11 vols. English edition 40 00 American edition 22.CO Year Books. Folio. 1596. 10 vols 25.00 SCHOULER'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Bancroft's History of the United Slates comes down only to the adoption of the Constitution, leaving the history of ''The United States"' still to be written. Mr. Schouler has taken up our national history from this period, and in his early volumes has treated with clearness and method, not only of the striking events of later periods, but also of the social and economical life of the people, their recreations, their habits of thought and action, their municipal arrangements, the character and influ- ence of immigration, the influence of classes and families upon the mass of voters, the difiiculties of intercommunication, and the provincial pecu- liarities of newspapers. The result is what the New York Evening Post calls " the most real history yet produced for the period which it covers." Lawyers will be especially interested in this History, from tiie fact that its author is well and widely known to their profession as the author of excellent treatises on Executors and other branches of the law. He brings to his work of historical investigation the great advantages of legal study and training. Wiioever has Bancroft's History, — or, without haing it, wishes a history of our country from the Revolutionary period to the Civil War. — will find in Schouler's History of the United States a readable and autiientic work. The full title of this work is A History of the United States of America under the Constitution. By James Schouler. To be completed in five volumes. Vols, i, 2, and 3 now ready. Price per volume, in cloth, $2.00 ; in sheep, S2.50; in half calf, $3.25. LIST NO. 6. A short time ago we issued a priced list containing about four hun- dred titles of law books published between 1470 and 1800. On this list will be found choice copies of Blackstone's Great Charter, 1759; Bracton's De Legibus, 1569 ; Brooke's La Graunde Abridgement, 1576; Corpus Juris Civilis, 1548; First Edition of Coke upon Littleton, 1628; Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, 1680: Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium, 1793; Grand Coustumier du Normandie. 1539; Littleton's Tenures, 1621 ; Brief Ani- madversions, 1669; Pulton's Statutes, 161S: Registrum Brevium, 16S7 : Scobell's Acts of the Commonwealth, 1658 ; Statham's Abridgment, 1470; Thurlow's State Papers, 1742 ; together with many other equally rare works. This list will be sent free on application. BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL. 10 ASHBURTOX PLACE, BOSTON. Circulars, giving fall information, sent npon appUoation to EDMUND H. BENNETT, Dean.