An excellent summary of Maine's principal writings may be seen in Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff's memoir. The prompt and full recognition of Maine's genius by continental publicists must not pass unmentioned even in the briefest notice. France, Germany, Italy, Russia have all contributed to do him honour; this is the more remarkable as one or two English publicists of an older school signally failed to appreciate him. Maine warned his countrymen against the insularity which results from ignorance of all law and institutions save one's own; his example has shown the benefit of the contrary habit. His prominent use of Roman law and the wide range of his observation have made his works as intelligible abroad as at home, and thereby much valuable information--for example, concerning the nature of British supremacy in India, and the position of native institutions there--has been made the property of the world of letters instead of the peculiar and obscure possession of a limited class of British public servants. Foreign readers of Maine have perhaps understood even better than English ones that he is not the propounder of a system but the pioneer of a method, and that detailed criticism, profitable as it may be and necessary as in time it must be, will not leave the method itself less valid or diminish the worth of the master's lessons in its use. The rather small bulk of Maine's published and avowed work may be explained partly by a fine literary sense which would let nothing go out under his name unfinished, partly by the drawbacks incident to precarious health. Maine's temperament was averse from the labour of minute criticism, and his avoidance of it was no less a matter of prudence. But it has to be remembered that Maine also wrote much which was never publicly acknowledged. Before he went to India he was one of the original contributors to the _Saturday Review_, founded in 1855, and the inventor of its name. Like his intimate friend Fitzjames Stephen, he was an accomplished journalist, enjoyed occasional article-writing as a diversion from official duties, and never quite abandoned it. The practice of such writing probably counted for something in the freedom and clearness of Maine's style and the effectiveness of his dialectic. His books are a model of scientific exposition which never ceases to be literature. See Sir A. Lyall and others, in _Law Quart. Rev._ iv. 129 seq. (1888); Sir F. Pollock, "Sir Henry Maine and his Work," in _Oxford Lectures, &c._ (1890); "Sir H. Maine as a Jurist," _Edin. Rev._ (July 1893); Introduction and Notes to new ed. of _Ancient Law_ (1906); Sir M. E. Grant Duff, _Sir Henry Maine: a brief Memoir of his Life, &c._ (1892); _Notes from a Diary_, _passim_; L. Stephen, "Maine" in _Dict. Nat. Biog._ (1893); Paul Vinogradoff, _The Teaching of Sir Henry Maine_ (1904). (F. Po.)