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BUR BURGES, J. B. Address to the Country Gentlemen of England and Wales, on County Courts. 8vor. London. 1789. . Considerations on the Law of Insolvency, with a Proposal for a Reform. 8vo. London. 1783. BURGH, J. Political Disquisitions on the Errors and Defects in Government. 3 vols. 8vo. London. 1774. BURKE, PETER. The Three Statutes forming the New Law for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the Court of Bankruptcy; analysed, simplified, and arranged, with the Acts themselves and an Index. 12mo. London. . A Treatise on the Law of Copyright, in litera- ture, the drama, music, engraving, and sculpture ; and also in designs for ornamenting articles of manufacture ; including the recent Statutes on the subject. 12mo. London. 1842. The fault of this work is its brevity, and it has been denominated " the very incarnation of meagreness." The author proposed, in his title page, to give a treatise upon the law of Copyright, and the result is a book of fifty pages of mere flying notes, upon a subject that requires at least a moderate sized volume properly to elucidate. 6 Jurist, 511. . The New Act for the better Securing the Payment of Small Debts, and the three Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the Court of Bankruptcy, analysed, simplified and arranged, with the Statutes themselves and an Index. 12mo. Lon- don. 1845. . The Criminal Law and its Sentences, in Treasons, Felonies, and Misdemeanors, including the Acts of last Session, 7 Vict. 4to. London. 1842. BURKE, E. P. An Historical Essay on the Laws and Govern- ment of Rome, designed as an Introduction to the Study of the Civil Law. 2d ed. 8vo. Cambridge. 1830. The author was a scholar of very superior attainments, but his work shows a want of famiHarity with the writings of his predecessors. How- ever, a very competent judge of its merits says : "It is not, we think, too strong praise to say that it is the best historical view of the Roman Constitution that has yet appeared from the hands of any English civi- lian or historian; and that it is exceeded by few, if any, of the conti- nental essays on the same subject. The more voluminous German and French works are certainly more thorough and minute in details ; but 11 161