Valpy's _Epitomizing_ press would reduce the editor's three hundred
pages to seventy-five. It is a thankless office to be obliged to speak
thus of a book on which some pains have been bestowed. Now, had it
been printed within the compass of an eighteen-penny or two shilling
catechism, the desired object would have been obtained; but, as it
appears, in the type of a large church prayer-book, what may have been
gained in arrangement, must be paid for in paper and print, so that no
good purpose is ultimately effected.
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FAMILIAR LAW.
Parts 3 and 4 of the _Familiar Law Adviser_ relate to Bills of Exchange
and Promissory Notes--and Benefit Societies and Savings' Banks--and will
be found extremely useful to very different classes. They have in them
all the reforming spirit of the times, and must be of essential service
everywhere, since _cheap law_ is as desirable us any other species of
economy. Brevity, too, as recommended in these little books, should
be the soul of law as it is of wit, for we all know that as the law
lengthens so the cost strengthens. Another advantage will be, that the
sooner a man is set right, the more time will he have for increasing
his good actions in this life.
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