"Other elements of the Roman Civil Law. The _jus gentium_, its nature and origin. How it was conceived by the Romans, and how it acted on the Roman community. Its agency, enlightening and softening influence on the Roman character, and on the severity of the primitive _jus civile_. "The nature, the agency of the praetorian or _edictorial_ right and jurisprudence. "A condensed sketch of the Roman civil process. The principal formalities and rules according to the _jus quiritium, jus civile_, and the _edicta praetorum_. Difference between the magistrate and the judge. "The scientific development of the above-mentioned data in the formation of the Roman Law, or the period between Augustus and Alex. Severus. Epoch of the imperial jurisconsults; its character. "Decline. The codification of the Roman Law, or the formation of the Justinian Code. Sketch of it during the mediaeval and modern periods. "Count Gurowski is authorized to refer to Hon. Edward Everett, Prof. Parsons, Prof. Parker, Wm. H. Prescott, Esq., Hon. T. G. Gary, Charles Sumner, Esq., Hon. G. S. Hillard, Prof. Felton. "CAMBRIDGE, January 24, 1851." The lectures were not successful, being attended by only twenty or thirty persons, who did not find them very interesting. The truth is, that few Americans care anything for the Roman law, or for the history of the principle of the _Right_ (_das Recht_); nor for the Ramnian, Sabinian, or Quiritian jurisprudence; nor whether the _jus civile_ was derived from the _jus quiritium_, or the _jus quiritium_ from the _jus civile_,--nor do I see why they should care. But even if the subject had been interesting in itself, Gurowski's imperfect pronunciation of our language at that time would have insured his failure as a lecturer. He had a copious stock of English words at command; but as he had learned the language almost wholly from books, his accent was so strongly foreign that few persons could understand him at first, except those of quick apprehension and some knowledge of the French and German idioms which he habitually used.