every form of Recital that may be required in practice. New circumstances necessitate new forms; and no one could frame, by any conceivable arrangement of words, such models as would be universally applicable.

It is hoped, however, that little difficulty will be felt in adapting the present to any variation either in facts or forms that may occur; though, after all, much will depend on that practical skill which can be gained only amidst the details of business. To acquire this skill must be the eager endeavour of the student; for, where it is wanting, however familiar he may be with forms, or however conversant with the rules of practice, they will be to him but as the instruments of an art unknown. While, however, he is intent upon thus arming himself for the conduct of affairs, it should not be forgotten that, unless practical knowledge is united with sound principles, or rather, unless they are so fused together that in every principle we can see a case of application, and in every case its

principle, the mind (to borrow a beautiful image,) will be too like a child's garden, where the flowers are planted without their roots.

In the Appendix is inserted an able lecture on Recitals, delivered by Professor Park, at King's College, London, only a few months before his untimely death. It will be found to contain much of that sort of information, (not to be prized the less because it is so rarely to be met with,) which, being gained only by experience in business, no one, unless nurtured in office, is competent to impart. To the student, such information is invaluable. As a lawyer, Professor Park deservedly ranked high-he was not unworthy of the master under whom he studied; and one cannot but regret that his promising career should have been so soon cut short-that when about to reap the harvest of his hopes, the sickle should have fallen from his hand.

Mr. Preston.

For the other articles inserted in the Appendix which treat of " Apportionment of Rent," of

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Proving Pedigrees," of " Tenant-right of Renewal," and of the "Admissibility of Papers to Probate," the author is alone responsible.

4, OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN,

Trinity Term, 1834.