BER specimen of the exhaustive discussion of a moral or political question, leaving no objection, however feeble, unanswered, and no difficulty, however small, unexplained ; remarkable, also, for the clearness and spirit of the style, for the full exposition which suits them to all intelli- gent readers, for the tender and skilful hand with which prejudice is touched and for the urbanity of his admirable apology for projectors." Mackintosh's Eth. Philos. 377 ; 65 Crit. Rev. 570 ; 78 Mon. Rev. 361. BENTHAM, JEREMY. Justice and Codification Petitions. 8vo. London. 1829. . Theorie des Peines et des recompenses, redigee en Fran9ols d'apres les manuscrits, par M. Et. Dumont. 2 vols. Bvo. Paris. 1818. "The law student cannot fail in being much delighted with this work ; it is a book replete with original and philosophical thoughts and sound practical observations, conveyed in a manner of peculiar force, and often in language of great noveUy and appropriateness ; in fine, in a style not entirely Mr. Bentham's, but in his best manner, with the exception of his Essay on Usury, and his. Fragments on Government." 1 Hoffman's Legal Study, 435. " Mr. Bentham has particularly and philosophically examined the subject of punishment. His writings have been and will be of great practical benefit to mankind. They will form the mine wherein states- men are to work for the ore that must be converted to the uses of legis- lation. In practical legislation, in the laborious and, what to most men would be, the tedious scrutiny of existing abuses, in the unwearied exposure of inconsistency in our laws, and a daring without check, and before him Avithout precedent in sifting their very foundations, and pene- trating the most awful and mysterious recesses of the temple of justice, he stands perhaps without a rival among men." 5 Eccl. Rev. 5 Ser. 354. This treatise was translated into Enjrlish under the followins: titles : The Rationale of Reward, 8vo., London, 1825 ; the Rationale of Pun- ishment, 8vo., London, 1830. BERKENHED, JOHN. An accompt of the indictment, arraign- ment, tryal and judgment of twenty-nine Regicides, the murtherers of his late majesty. 4to. London. 1660. BERNARDI, M. De I'origine et des progress de la Legislation Francaise, ou histoire du droit public et Privc de la France. 8vo. Paris. 1816. 114
