achievement to discuss in an absolutely exhaustive manner a broad legal topic where the footsteps of no predecessor serve to guide or to warn. It cannot be expected of the pioneer that he should finish his work beyond the possibility of improvement. I know that I have fallen far short of such a consummation; and I must rest satisfied if what I have done shall prove substantially useful, and shall betray no greater want of finish than may be deemed justly unavoidable and pardonable in so difficult a labor. 16 PEMBERTON SQUARE, BOSTON, Jan. 9, 1870. JOHN T. MORSE, JR. |