New Reprint Publication on Dickens from the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. (lawbkexc@HAVEN.IOS.COM)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:06:56 -0500
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. would like to announce to announce the reprint
publication of a work that might be of interest to members of the BOZ
listserve:
Charles Dickens As a Legal Historian. William S. Holdsworth. 157 pp. 1928.
Reprinted 1995. ISBN 1-886363-0.6-4. Cloth. $40.
* "The distinguished English historian, Professor Holdsworth, has contrived
even during his moments of recreation to render us his debtors. No two books
outside the bounds of technical law are more worth reading for law students
than Pickwick Papers and Bleak House. Even a trained trial lawyer however, is
puzzled by some of the legal points brought up by Dickens, because they have
fortunately passed forever out of the realm of living law. Professor
Holdsworth has performed a valuable service to lawyers and laymen alike in
explaining these obscurities. And he has done much more than this. He has
increased our admiration for the genius of Dickens by proving his great merit
as a legal historian.... Although some of the information in this book has
already appeared in the author's great History of English Law, it derives an
increased force from the picturesque material with which it is surrounded. All
lawyers and all lovers of Dickens will be wise in reading Professor
Holdsworth's book." Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Harvard Law Review 42:286-8.
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