This is a good collection of literature from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century. Some of the choices were wuite interesting such as Wuthering Heights as the example of the Victorian novel, (I, myself, would have chosen Jane Eyre), but all in all this is a well put-together collection. The biographical information before each author is also interesting and puts the works into context. This is amust-have for English majors and literature fanatics alike.

Against the Law by Paul Campos, Steven Smith, & Pierre Schag The study of law has become a secular religion, a fetish, and canard for what really ails society, the courts, and lawyers. These young professors of law write about the bogus charade that has become legal reasoning in America. I may well remind them that the Constitution has never guaranteed justice to anyone -- only its substitute, due process of law -- and this requires the legal profession to ignore substance and pursue ad absurdam trivial questions of form to the exclusion of all other topics. Some of the essays, however, are written in the worst traditions of legal writing.