It seems undesirable and unnecessary to detain the Student by any prefatory detail. The scope and cha racter of Dr. Brunner's Sketch will be at once apparent. Lts clearness, its erudition, its comprehensiveness, cannot fail to be recognised. It embodies matter which might easily have been expanded into a considerable volume, butoit is presented in such a succinct and perspicuous form that the Student may rapidly master it; and in doing so he cannot but gain definite direct-ion and insight, whatever be the School of Law in which he may have been trained, or to which he may be giving his allegiance.