The world: historical and actual . RALPH WALDO EMERSON. »«T AMERICAN LITERATURE. 643. Chancellor Kent of, New York (1763-1847), de-serves prominent mention for his great legal workon American law. He is the Blackstone of theUnited States. His commentaries have been a textbook with law students for fifty years and have lost none of theirvalue. JudgeStory, of theSupremebenchof the UnitedStates (1779-1845))produceda work onthe constitu-tion which isan indispensa-ble manual forevery states-man in this re-public. A goodmany valuablenoah webster. legal treatises have been produced hi this country, b
The world: historical and actual . RALPH WALDO EMERSON. »«T AMERICAN LITERATURE. 643. Chancellor Kent of, New York (1763-1847), de-serves prominent mention for his great legal workon American law. He is the Blackstone of theUnited States. His commentaries have been a textbook with law students for fifty years and have lost none of theirvalue. JudgeStory, of theSupremebenchof the UnitedStates (1779-1845))produceda work onthe constitu-tion which isan indispensa-ble manual forevery states-man in this re-public. A goodmany valuablenoah webster. legal treatises have been produced hi this country, but Kent andStory are the only really great and immortal namesin Ihe annals of American law literature. Thename of Abbott deserves honorable mention. Therewere two brothers of note, Jacob, the author of the Rollo Books and a long list of works designed toinstruct and entertain the young, and John S. , two years younger,whose histories of Napoleonand other famous characterswere received with favor. In lexicography Americahas two great names, NoahWebster (1758-1843) andJoseph
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