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 MAR MARSHALL, SAMUEL. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance, in Four Books: L Of Marine Insurance. II. Of Bottomry and Respondentia. III. Of Insurance upon Lives. IV. Of Insur- ance against Fire. 3d ed. By C. Marshall. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1823. The American editions are : 8vo., Boston, 1805 ; 2 vols., 8vo,, Phila- delphia, 1810, with Notes, by J. W. Condy. Although it is said to be a more lucid and systematic Treatise than Mr. Park's, it has never been able to supplant it. Mr. Marshall discusses, condenses, and illustrates the Decisions vpith ability, and draws information from foreign as well as domestic sources, but, after all, " his work seems to promise more than it performs. It contains little of doctrine or discussion, beyond what the English Decisions exact or furnish." The notes of Mr. Condy contributed considerably to its value, and in this form it was for some time the best Treatise in general use, in this country, upon Insurance; but the later and better works of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Duer, have nearly superseded the use of both Marshall and Park. Story, 20 N. A. Rev. 72; 6L. R. 487; 1 An. Rev., Pt. 2, 737; 2 Month. Anth. 147; 3 Kent, 350; Red. Mar. Com. 434. MARTENS, G. F. VON. A Summary of the Law of Nations, founded on Treaties and Customs of the Modern Nations of Eu- rope ; with a List of the Principal Treaties concluded since 1748, down to the Present Time ; translated from the French. By William Cobbett. 8vo, Philadelphia. 1795. 8vo. London. 1802, with Additions. The author first published his work in French, 1788, and in German, 17!)6. The fourth French edition appeared in 1831, with Notes, by Ferreira, "who has proved himself no friendly commentator, his notes being written in a tone of detraction and even abuse, which tells more against the critic than against the object of his criticism." Martens was a learned publicist, who contributed several useful works upon Interna- tional Law, but the Prec/s du Droit des Gens, or Summary, is most known and esteemed. It is far from being a complete Treatise, but is of consid- erable practical value, systematic in its arrangement, accurate in defini- tions, and still retains a respectable rank among Manuals for the study of the Law of Nations. HofF. Leg. Stu. 453 ; 1 Kent, 17; Wheaton's Law of Nations, 325 ; Reddle's Rom. L. 134, n ; Mann. Law of N. 39. . An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Recap- tures ; with a Discourse on the Rights and Duties of Neutrals, translated from the French, with Notes. By Thomas Hartwell Ilorne. 8vo. London. 1801. Dr. Brown speaks of this Essay, as " replete with every false prin- 500