PHI attempts at collateral disquisition. The volume comprises the results of the English and American Cases, wrought out with evident care and reflection, and ranks among the best of elementary text books. It is one of the few American Law books which has attracted the attention of the Profession abroad, and will sustain itself the better the more it is ex- amined. Chief Justice Parker said, he had found it more easy to get at all he wanted, upon every branch of the Law of Insurance, from this work, than from any other on the same subject which he had been used to consult. 2 Pick. 258; 20 N. A. Rev. 74; Duer on Ins. 51 ; 6 L. R. 488; 3 Kent, 317, 351. PHILLIPS, WILLARD. The Inventor's Guide ; comprising the Rules, Forms and Proceedings, for securing Patent Rights. 12mo. Boston. 1837. " The Inventor's Guide is an abstract, or abridgment of the author's work on Patents, divested of Legal technicalities, and calculated for artists, inventors, mechanics, and others, not belonging to the Profession of the Law." 18 A. J. 101. . The Law of Patents for Inventions, including the Remedies and Legal Proceedings in relation to Patent Rights. 8vo. Boston. 1837. " In point of practical usefulness and of scientific arrrangement and analysis, we unhesitatingly place it before any of the numerous English treatises on the subject; and, of course, immeasurably before the crude compilation of Mr. Fessenden. All the Cases which illustrate the sub- ject, have been collected with diligence and digested with precision ; and the general rules and principles, running often into subtile inquiries, which lie at the foundation of this portion of Jurisprudence, are ex- panded with instructive fulness." The introductory pages of the volume contain an enumeration of all the important Treatises upon Patents that had appeared when Mr. Phillips wrote. This branch of law is of great and growing importance in our country, and it is but justice to acknow- ledge that the above work has very much conduced to render its study attractive and to give it form and symmetry. The author pays a merited compliment, in his Preface, to Judge Story, in the following terms : " It is no injustice to the other eminent jurists of the country, to say, that this department of law has been more especially indebted to the learning and talents of Mr. Justice Story, the records of whose indefatigable re- search and luminous expositions, will be found in many parts of this volume." Pref. to PhiUips' Pat. ; 18 A. J. 101. PHILLIPS, P. A Digest of Cases decided by the Supreme Court, of the State of Alabama, from Minor to VII. Alabama Reports, inclusive ; with a Table of Titles. 8vo. Mobile. 1846. 570
