Press Opinions.
"The volume, which is beautifully printed and illustrated, will
fascinate the reader by its diversity, its instructive exposition,
and its record of what is odd, mystical, and glorious in the Church's
annals."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._
"A most entertaining work, and useful to antiquaries and sociologists
as a book of reference."--_Leeds Mercury._
"A fund of quaint and pleasing information."--_Chester Courant._
"Mr. Andrews and his coadjutors have provided a work which will give
unqualified pleasure to the reader of the day, and which will prove
engrossing to every searcher after the ancient and the curious in
ecclesiastical history or structure."--_Dundee Advertiser._
"The learned editor of this work has in several volumes proved his
extensive acquaintance with early records of the English Church, and
of the marks she bears of pre-Reformation times. He was, therefore,
well fitted for the task of preparing this collection of papers dealing
with 'the byways and highways' of Church History in this country,
and the result is a volume that will give pleasure to many besides
ecclesiastical antiquarians.... The writers of the various chapters
show ample knowledge of the subjects they treat of, and considerable
literary powers."--_Liverpool Mercury._
"An exceedingly interesting miscellany, and will be read with the
greater enjoyment that all the contributors have been at pains to
banish pedantry from their articles, and to write them in a light and
gossiping style."--_Glasgow Herald._
_Elegantly Bound in Cloth Gilt Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d._
THE LAWYER
IN
HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND HUMOUR,
Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.,
CONTENTS.
Introduction--Law Amongst Primitive Races--Ivo, Saint
and Lawyer--Benefit of Clergy--Chaucer's Man of Law--The
Law in Shakespeare--Revels at the Inns of Court--The Law
in Scott--Dickens' Lawyers--Literary Lawyers--The Law in
Rhyme--Fighting Lawyers--The Costume of the Law--Curious Circuit
Customs--The Last Execution for Witchcraft--Curious Legal Facts,
Customs, and Fictions--People in the Pillory--Amenities of the
Bench and the Bar--Curiosities of the Witness Box--The Law and
Laughter--Lawyers and Eloquence--Sealed and Delivered--A carefully
compiled Index.
It will be gathered from the foregoing list of contents that the
volume is one of unusual interest and value. The work may be read with
pleasure and profit, and merits a place in the reference library.
PRESS OPINIONS
"A welcome addition to the lighter literature of the law."--_The Times._
"A considerable amount of historical and literary information."--_Daily
News._
"An entertaining work. It is rich in the lore and the humour of
the law, and ought to be as interesting to the layman as to the
lawyer."--_The Globe._
"An entertaining volume."--_Manchester Guardian._
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