『万国著名裁判』 (1835)の広告 Advertisement of _Celebrated Trials of all Countries_ (1835)

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Catalogue of a Valueble and Useful Collection of Books, in the Various Departments of Science, [Many of Which Have Been Recently Imported,] for Sale by E. L. Carey & Hart, Corner of Chesnut and Fourth Streets, Philadelphia

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      CELEBRATED TRIALS,
      AND
    REMARKABLE CASES OF CRIMINAL
     JURISPRUDENCE;

      FROM THE
EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE PRESENT TIME.

       EDITED BY
A MEMBER OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR.

     IN ONE LARGE 8vo. VOLUME.

               ________

     Till the publication of the present volume, the English language was possessed of no popular collection of celebrated trials and remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence.
     The Newgate Calenders [sic], as chroniclers of roguery and vulgar depravity in their various forms, have usually been compiled in language which sympathize and accord with their subjects.
     The State Trials, in seeking to exhaust all the legal and technical details, degenerate into intolerable dullness, and are useful only as a body of information, to be consulted by professional men in regard to analogous cases which present themselves in practice; though, in this respect, they are so valuable, that no law library ought to be without them.
     At the same time, in forming a selection of interesting and important trials from the range of the juridical proceedings of various nations, the editor has adopted no existing model.  The only one similar in its general object is the voluminous series, in the French language, entitled Causes Celebres.  The best cases in that celebrated work have been transferred to this volume.
     The editor is aware that the interest of a trial often turns on small points, and is increased by the reader being, as it were, carried into court.  This important principle he has never lost sight of; and in proof, he may refer to the verbal examinations which he has retained, whenever they are connected with the jet of the case, or with historical personages, and curious traits of manners.  If the general reader has reason to find any fault with the work, it will rather be with the minutiae of detail, than with any deficiency.  

　　タイトル、ちょっと違っていますけど（「万国」が入った・・・・・・このころ流行っていたのかしら、マダム・ジュノーの著名女性回顧録も "all countries" が付いていたし・・・・・・マニフェスト・デステニー manifest destiny の喧伝は10年あとだけれど、アメリカの意識が北アメリカ大陸も越えて世界に向いていたとかいうことかしら）、ジョン・ジェイ・スミス John Jay Smith の本です。――

 

 

 

 

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