orded to his _proteges_, and the
unusual degree to which they have been consequently familiarised, have
enabled him to overthrow many long-established errors--a thankless task at
best, and which in some instances has not been rendered more palatable to
those whose blunders were thus exposed, by the unsparing shafts of his
raillery. But against all these antagonists Mr Waterton is very well able
to defend himself, as the unlucky Mr Swainson and some others of his
assailants know to their cost; and wishing him the full fruition for many
long years of the bodily activity which enables him still to scale the
highest tree in Walton Park to inspect a crow's nest, and not less of that
irresistible _naivete_ and _bonhommie_ which give such enjoyable zest to
all his writings, we bid him for the present farewell--and if, in sooth,
we are ne'er again to meet the Lord of Walton Hall in print, we scarce
"shall look upon his like again!"

WARREN'S LAW STUDIES.[13]

The readers of _Blackwood_ who, month after month, followed with
increasing interest the adventures of Titmouse, and the adversity and
restoration of the Aubrey family, will excuse us if we apparently diverge
from our usual literary course to track the author of "Ten Thousand
a-Year" in a work which he has given to the legal profession, or rather to
those who meditate entering upon that profession, or who have just set
their foot upon the threshold.

Mr Warren's "Introduction to Law Studies" has already received the
approbation of the public, testified by the sale of an unusually large
edition. This has prompted the author to fresh endeavours to render it
worthy of the peculiar place it fills, and of his own name; and he now,
"after ten years of additional experience, (eight of them at the bar,)"
publishes a second edition, "remodelled, rewritten, and greatly
enlarged"--indeed so considerably altered and amplified as to be, in
reality, a new work under the old title.

"In the present work," says the preface, "is incorporated one which the
author has for some years meditated offering to the public, viz. an
elementary and popular outline of the leading doctrines and practice of
each of the three great departments of the law, civil, criminal, and
ecclesiastical." The work, therefore, now consists of three distinct
parts. 1. A general survey of the legal profession--a description of the
nature of its several departments, of the various studies, labours, modes
of li