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STO remarks, that " Get ouvrage est regarde comme classique, non seule- ment en Amerique, mas aussi par toutes les personnes qui, en Europe, se sont occupes de I'etude de la Constitution des Etats Unis. 2 Rev. Etran. N. S. 2; (4) 304 ; 14 Am. Quart. Rev. 327; 9 A. J. 241 ; (10) 119 ; (11) 48G ; (14) 331 ; (15) 1 ; 1 Kent, 241, n; Hoff. Leg. Stu. 568 ; 3 Law Review, 375. STORY, JOSEPH. Commentaries on the Constitution. Abridged by the Author. 8vo. Boston. 1833. This Abridgment of the preceeding work has been several times com- mented upon, by those who were not aware of the existence of the larger Treatise. The volume has recently been translated into French, with additions by the translator, under the following Title : Commentaire sur la Cortstilution Fcderak des Etals Units, traduit du Commentaire Ahregc de J. Story, par Paul Odejit, 2 vols., %vo,, Paris, 1843. M. Odent a joint a sa traduction des notes interessantes sur la jurisprudence, les droits des etrangers, les formalites de la naturalisation et plusieurs chapitres, parmi lesquels nous avons remarque ceux qui traitent des fonctions des agents interieurs et exterieurs de I'Union, et de I'organization des tribunaux federaux et des tribunaux d'Etats. 10 Rev. Etran. 688 ; (4) 304. . Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and especially in regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments. 2d ed. 8vo. Boston. 1841. A reviewer of the above Treatise, says " it is absolutely refreshing to sit down to the task of commenting on a work such as that before us, of which we may commence by saying, that if the subject matter is vast, the arrangement is philosophical and lucid, and the style is almost clas- sical." The extensive range of Judge Story's juridical studies, his skill in contrasting and weighing authorities, his keen perception of the gov- erning principles to be derived from them, is best exhibited in his Conflict of Laws, " that most difficult chapter of public law." Previous to its appearance there did not exist, in England or America, any systematic Treatise of this sort, and the practitioner was left to grope his way, whenever questions upon the Conflict of Laws arose, among the widely scattered decisions, and amidst Continental works difficult of access, and not always coincident in doctrine. To collect from the broad field of Jurisprudence the materials for such a production, to methodize and evolve from them a series of rules, which will explain the important rela- tions of mankind growing out of this branch of the law, was a labour of no inconsiderable magnitude and difficulty ; but, to have so accomplished the task as to have received the approbation of the jurists of all coun- tries, is a mark of distinction that very few works in modern times have had the enviable fortune to enjoy. It cannot but be a source of 670