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The Law’s Lumber Room
The Law’s
Lumber
Room
By
Francis
Watt
Second Series
John Lane, The Bodley Head
London and New York
mdcccxcviii
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press
Prefatory
This is an entirely distinct book from thefirst series of the Law’s Lumber Room.The subjects are of more general interest,they are treated with greater fulness ofdetail, most are as much literary as legal;but I have thought it best to retain theold name. No other seemed so briefly andso truly descriptive of papers which tellwhat the law and its ways once were, andwhat they have ceased, one may reasonablysuppose, for ever to be.
I make two remarks. There is a greatdeal of hanging in this book; that is onlybecause those were hanging times. The lawhad no thought of mending the criminal; itended him in the most summary fashion.The death of the chief actors was as inevitablythe finish of the story as it is ina modern French novel.
[Pg vi]Again, in pondering those memories ofthe past, one realises how much, in otherthings than mechanical invention, our timeis unlike all that went before. This is notthe commonplace it seems, for not easily dowe realise how far the change has gone.
Details such as make up this volume havethis merit: they bring the antique world beforeus, and the net result seems to be this: we leadbetter lives, we are more just and charitable,perhaps less selfish than our forefathers,but how to deny that something is lost? forlife is not so exciting, and our annals areanything but picturesque.
These papers were originally publishedin The New Review, The Yellow Book,and The Ludgate. I have made very considerableadditions to most of them, and allhave been carefully revised.
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