BRT propriety of composition and copiousness of diction not incompatible with technical accuracy. Unfortunately, they are given to the public in a very slovenly manner; and the great inferiority of some to the rest, affords also too much reason to fear that there has been much interpola- tion." Williams' Study of Law, 125 ; Bridgman's Leg. Bib. 33; 1 Barton's Conv. 74. BRIDGMAN, RICHARD W. Thesaurus Juridicus; containing the decisions of the several Courts of Equity, &;c., and of the High Court of Parliament, upon Petitions and Appeals. To which are added the Resolutions of the Barons of the Exchequer, touching the Revenues of the Crown, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. Lon- don. 180G. " Had this work been completed, it would have formed one of the most useful books in the lawyer's library," Preston on Abstracts, 230. . Reflections on the Study of the Law, in two parts; addressed first to the Nobility and Gentry, as the Here- ditary and Elective Senators of the Nation ; and, secondly, to those gentlemen who propose to study the Law with a view to Professional Practice. 8vo. London. 1804. ' Analytical Digested Index to the Reported Cases in the several Courts of Equity, and the Higli Court of Parlia- ment, from the earliest period to the present time. 3d ed. By R. O. Bridgman. With a Digest of Practice and Pleading, and Supplement. By Mr. Scott. 5 vols. 8vo. London. 1822-1832.
- ' This is a most laborious and useful work." There is an American
reprint. 3 vols., 8vo., New York, 1828. 1 Bart. Conv. G8. . A Short View of Legal Bibliography, containing some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and other Law Writers, collected from the best authorities, and in- tended as a Companion to the author's Reflections on the Study of the Law, &c. 8vo. London. 1807. Mr. Bridgman's Treatise, though incomplete, is the best English work existing of the period embraced by his Legal Bibliography. The author's studies must have led him to a familiar acquaintance with the Reports, from which we might have expected a more enduring and satisfiictory monument of research and criticism upon them, than his volume affords. This deficiency, so far as it regards the elder reporters, has recently been adequately supplied by the very judicious and able criticisms and notes of Mr. J. W. Wallace, in a work entitled, «' The Reporters, chronolooi- cally arranged,-" &c. 147
