SELECT ESSAYS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY ITH the present Volume ends this collection of essays ? and the editors finish their task.

How shall we prologuise, how shall we perorate, Say fit things upon art and history? Suffice it, in taking leave, to express the hope that these volumes have in perusal been as interesting to their readers as they were in preparation to their editors.

Carlyle, dis- coursing on History, reminds us that " whereas of old the charm of History lay chiefly in gratifying our common ap- petite for the wonderful, for the unknown, and her office was but as that of Minstrel and Story-teller, she has now farther become a Schoolmistress, and professes to instruct in grati- fying.

" That these essays may gratify while instructing is the wish of the editors.

It is to them a special satisfaction, in this third Volume, to have succeeded in the endeavor (announced in the preface to the second Volume) to include an essay worthily repre- sentative of French scholarship in the field of English law that of Professor Robert Caillemer, of the University of Grenoble.