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 America's Greatest Institutional Treatise to lawyers, both on the bench and at the bar, would prove a conserving force in the development of our law and legislation, in short, of our juridical system. Terry, perhaps better than any one, stated the case:— The thing our law needs above all else is a complete scientific arrangement of the whole body of it. . . . There is no scientific and rational arrangement based on adequate analysis of legal conception, and a logical marshaling of the elements exhibited by the analysis. . . . The only way that our law can be kept manageable and knowable is by its development along the lines of principle by having a logical framework upon which every special rule can be adjusted in its proper place. . . . The end and object of an arrangement is the eminently practical one of making the law easy to find, and it is barren pedantry to sacrifice this to any theoretical excellence of form, yet it is important to bear in mind that the practical end cannot be attained unless the arrangement adopted possesses in a high degree those character istics which make it what, for want of a better word, we may call philosophical. . . . If we are to have a place for everything and everything in its place the arrangement must be even severely and inexorably logical. American Bar Association Reports. That Andrews' American Law is an attempt to accomplish this great work is plainly stated by the author in his Preface and in many parts of the book; and that the work, in this its second edition, accomplishes this great design in a highly satisfactory manner, is patent to all who have examined it carefully. Mr. Justice Brewer declares :— The thought with which the author has started, of developing the elements of Ameri can law, is worthy of all praise. It is dis tinctly a book for the United States, for the lawyer and the student of law in this country. His arrangement is admirable; his work is well done. Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin says of it:—

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Superior to anything published since the first edition of Kent's Commentaries for giving Americans a succinct view of American law. Accord, Mr. Justice Brown: — I know of no other work which covers the same field. So also United States Circuit Judge Seaman, who asserts:— For succinctness and accuracy in expres sion it is unrivaled; and a feature of special value is the clearness of the definitions evolved. United States Circuit Judge Townsend, also Professor in the Yale Law School, declares:— It is analytical, scholarly, logical, and accurate. The late Judge John W. Simonton, the Pennsylvania Bar Association's first President, paid the author this tribute :— Andrews has greatly overpaid his debt to our noble profession, and has richly earned the thanks of its members. Such praise from such quarters is a distinct recognition of the epoch-making character of the work. Indeed, it may be soberly and conservatively affirmed that in comparison with all other at tempts at creating a scientific, compre hensive and complete classification, and fitting into this necessary framework the rules and principles of our law, sup ported and illustrated by adequate authority, this book stands unrivaled. It is more logical in arrangement, more symmetrical and complete in treatment, more powerful in the handling of mooted points of debatable law; and in strength and wealth of citation to vital authori ties, it is incomparably superior to any book of the kind heretofore produced on either side of the Atlantic. This is strong language, but when we consider what was said of the first edition, even by those who criticised some special