FORTESCUE\u27S DE LAUDIBUS: A REVIEW

In this opus perfectissimum, Dr. Chrimes, whose book, English Constitutional Ideas in the Fifteenth Century, marks him as the man best fitted for the task, has filled one of the gaps which existed in the scientific examination of the sources of English law. We have Mr. Nicholl\u27s Britton and Professor Woodbine\u27s Glanvil and his still unfinished Bracton, Mr. Ogg\u27s edition of Selden\u27s Dissertatio, and the Hughes-Crump-Johnson edition of The Dialogue on the Exchequer. All these are admirable. There are left only St. Germain and Fleta, both of which cry aloud for an editor of the quality of any of those just mentioned. I should like to add the Leges Willelmi and the Leges Henrici, although they are on the threshold of the common law rather than within it

WOE UNTO YOU LAWYERS: A REVIEW

The blurb on the cover twice calls this book a lusty, gusty attack on The Law. No writer can be held responsible for the blurbs with which his book is commended to the public by those whose business it is to sell it. But many who read it--there will undoubtedly be many--will do so in the hope that it is precisely what the cover describes, since lusty, gusty attacks on anything make juicy reading and law and lawyers have been fair game almost ever since either word became a term of common speech. Professor Rodell\u27s title is taken from the Gospels and many of his chapters are introduced by apt quotations which ridicule or abuse The Law. I hope that in the third and subsequent editions he will add the passage from Gulliver which is the bitterest and most devastating of all attacks on lawyers; and also perhaps, some sentences from Mr. A. P. Herbert, who has recently and wittily uncovered our nakedness