dent's education, arising from this probable combination of the politician with the counsellor. While we thus consider the sciences and the arts as a family connected by very intimate ties, there are some of these between which the relation is more extensive and obvious. The physician, the divine, and the lawyer, while they will aim, if they possessa liberal understanding, to extend their conquests into every region of letters, must, in their own defence, make very solid acquisitions in some, between which and their own particular province there exists a closer connexion. It is, we think, the felicity of the jurisprudent, that the collateral topicks to which the study of his profession compels his attention, are more the topicks of common life than those auxiliary subjects which engage the divine and the physician; and better fit him. for the business and converse of men. His very title imports an extensive acquaintance with the nature and principles of men's mutual obligations; and to discern and apply these under all the modifications of circumstances, demands both extraordinary acuteness of mind, and enlarged acquaintance with human affairs and human passions. The politician, whose pursuits are nearest allied to his own, requires less, perhaps, of this subtilty of intellect, and this knowledge of men; as the points with which he is concerned are more palpable to the common sense of mankind; and as effects may be computed with more certainty, when they are to be wrought by communities, who must be swayed by general interests, than when they depend on the infinite caprices of individual passion and understanding. A lawyer must be a philosopher to detect, a logician to reason, a poet to de scribe, and an orator to persuade; and if it be objected that this resembles too much the extravagance of Ci cero, who unites in his "Orator" every feature of a various and perfect genius, this general disposition to combine in our own profession the excellencies and the talents which are requisite in others, may tend at least to prove what we have before declared to be our conviction, the connexion of all the branches of science, and the necessity, if we are emulous of distinction in our own pursuits, of not being entirely ignorant of those of others. It is not for us to designate the methods of attaining this general knowledge, "this armour and accomplishment at all points;" we are only to designate such subjects as have a more immediate connexion with law, and, consequently, which possess a particular claim to the attention of the American law student: they will be found under the preceding and three following titles. We presume and hope, that General History and Biography, Belles-Lettres and General Morals, and all that can improve and adorn the mind, will receive from the student some attention; but the History, civil, political, and natural, of our own country, Legal Biography, the Eloquence and Oratory of the Bar, and the particular duties and conduct in life of the lawyer, we are unwilling to leave to presumption and hope. These subjects, therefore, are embraced in our Course. The student will recollect that, in our Introduction, we have recommended that the title Political Economy, and the several Auxiliary Subjects should be studied at the same time with those of the other titles, that is, throughout the whole Course. In this way these auxiliary subjects may be rendered highly entertaining and relaxing, as well as improving. We do not deem it necessary to remark on the merits or defects of the books recommended in this title. American history is a rich and interesting topick: as yet, however, we have not much choice in books on this subject: they all deserve the student's attention. Marshall's Life of Washington, Williams's History of Vermont, Belknap's History of New-Hampshire, Trumbull's History of Connecticut, and Ramsay's History of South-Carolina, merit a very earnest and studious perusal. AUXILIARY SUBJECTS. TITLE II. FORENSICK ELOQUENCE AND ORATORY. 1. Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetorick and Belles-Lettres; particular attention to be paid to the following chapters. Lecture xxv. "Eloquence, or Publick Lecture xxvi. "History of Eloquence continued-Roman Eloquence-Cicero-Modern Eloquence." Lecture xxvii. "Different kinds of Publick Speaking-Eloquence of Popular Assemblies-Extracts from De mosthenes." Lecture xxviii. "Eloquence of the Bar Lecture xxxi. "Conduct of a discourse Lecture xxxiv. "Means of Improving 2. On the Eloquence of the Bar. Vid. 2 vol. Rollin's Belles-Lettres. 3. Quinctilian's Institutes of the Orator. Patsall's Translation.* E. 4. Lawson's Lectures on Oratory. 5. The Abbé Maury's Principles of Eloquence, adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar. * Vid. Note on the 4th Title of Auxiliary Subjects. 6. Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetorick. 8. The Orations of Demosthenes. Leland's 9. Guthrie's Select Orations of Cicero, translated. 10. White's translation of the Orations of Cicero against Verres. E. 11. Chapman's Specimens of Forensick Elo quence. E. 12. Campbell's Continuation of Chapman's Specimens. 13. Lord Erskine's Speeches. New-York American edition in two volumes. E. 14. Mirabeau's Speeches in the Constituent Assembly. (Note.) ON THE ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR. Under this head we have mentioned the most popular and useful works on rhetorick, and some of the best collections of speeches. The student requires not to be reminded by any remarks of ours, of the importance of this branch of his legal accomplishments; and for instruction in the arts of rhetorick, and for models of oratory, we refer him to the works we have selected. The only general maxim which can be proposed to him who is emulous of a clear, correct, and felicitous elocution, is to render himself familiar with the best |