THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

REVIEW;

OR,

EUROPEAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL.

"In primisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio."

CICERO, DE OFF.

N° XV.

CONTENTS

OF

No XV.

ARTICLE

I.—1. L. T. FREIHERN V. SPITTLER'S Sammtliche

Werke. 1827-1837. Erster Band. Ges-

chichte des Canonischen Rechts. (L. T.

Baron von Spittler's complete Works. Vol. I.

History of the Canon Law.) Stuttgard:

Cotta.

2. FERDINAND WALTER'S Lehrbuch des Kir-

chenrechts aller Christlichen Confessionen.

1836. (Manual of the Ecclesiastical Law

of all Christian Confessions.) 7th edit.

Bonn: Marcus.

ARTICLE

Page

3. Erinnerung's Skizzen aus Russland, der Tur-

kei, und Griechenland. Vom LEGATIONS-

RATH TIETZ. Coburg: 1836.

4. Sketches of Petersburg, by a Prussian Coun-

sellor of Legation. London: 1836.

III.-Essai sur l'Histoire des Arabes et des Mores

d'Espagne. Par LOUIS VIArdot.

1833.

33

Paris.

63

IV.-Austria and the Austrians. Two vols. Lon-

V.-Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.

By MRS. JAMESON. 3 vols. London: Saun-

ders and Otley. 1838. .

134

VI.-Sketches of the Relations subsisting between the

British Government of India and the different

Native States. By J. SUTHERLAND, Cap-

tain 3rd Regiment Bombay Light Cavalry.

Calcutta: 1833. .

8vo.

154

VII.-Sixth Annual Report from the Board of Public

Works in Ireland. Ordered by the House of

Commons to be printed 11th June, 1838. . 245

Second Report of the Commissioners of Railways

for Ireland. 1838. .

VIII. The Canadas.

Note to Article IV. on the Austrian Treaty

215

THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

REVIEW.

ARTICLE I.

L. T. FREIHERN V. SPITTLER'S Sammtliche Werke. 18271837. Erster Band. Geschichte des Canonischen Rechts. (L. T. Baron von Spittler's complete Works. Vol. I. History of the Canon Law.) Stuttgard: Cotta.

FERDINAND WALTER'S Lehrbuch des Kirchenrechts aller Christlichen Confessionen. 1836. (Manual of the Ecclesiastical Law of all Christian Confessions.) 7th edit. Bonn: Marcus.

THESE are well-known names in Germany. The first, like many others of his countrymen, was originally destined to the ministry of the church, but subsequently changed his views. After a bright career of utility at Göttingen, he died in 1810, having held previously, for a short time, a diplomatic situation in his native country of Würtemburg. The most valuable among his voluminous works are those relating to ecclesiastical affairs, to ecclesiastical law, and ecclesiasticopolitical relations: these are his best and most enduring monument. His best epitaph is, perhaps, that (although not free from the mistakes and prejudices of the times in which he lived, and of which his temperament rendered him peculiarly susceptible,) he was the valued friend and colleague of Gottlieb Planck. Walter's name appears in the list of professors at Bonn, in the winter of 1836-37, as professing several courses on Roman and German law. He is the author of several well-known works, among which the one quoted

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