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Guide to the Bar.-A New Guide to the Bar, containing the most Recent Regulation and Examination Papers, and a Critical Essay on the Present Condition of the Bar of England. By M. A. and LL. B., Barristersat-Law. Crown 8vo. Price 58 cloth. Handbooks of the Law.-By C. F. MORRELL, Barrister-at-Law. 2s. 6d. ea., sewed. No. 1. Wills-Handbook for Testators. 1893. 2. Probate-Executors and Administrators. 3. Insurance-Fire, Life, Accident, Marine. PREFACE. THE design of this work was formed some years since, while teaching the subject of International Law in the United States Naval Academy, and the greater part of the compilation was made during a subsequent residence of three years in France, Germany, and England; but other duties have, till the present time, prevented its completion. The object has been primarily to provide a convenient collection of materials relating to International Law, for the use of students. To avoid the method of instruction by lectures alone, and the even less satisfactory method of recitation from text-books, it is believed, that the "case system, introduced into the Harvard Law School a score of years ago, by Professor Langdell, offers a happy substitute. Indeed, having employed that system for the last half dozen years, in classes in International Law, in Harvard University, I am thoroughly convinced that it is well adapted to that subject; the only drawback has been the difficulty of finding the necessary materials in a convenient form. By this method, the student is called upon to take an active part in the exercises of the lecture room; he is to report briefly the facts and judgment in a given case, and then is to explain the principles and their application, and must maintain his position against the criticisms of the instructor, and the other members of the class. The student should thus acquire a firmer grasp of the subject than he can get from the study of text-books alone; he is, moreover, more inter |