Excerpt from Lectures on Jurisprudence, or the Philosophy of Positive Law After his death Mrs. Austin (in 1861) by the advice of friends edited a reprint of the volume containing the Province, ' with the preface above referred to. This was followed two years later by two volumes containing all that by extreme diligence and assiduity could be found and put together of Austin's work. Subsequently the valuable notes of the original Lectures taken by J. S. Mill, who was a constant attendant upon the course, were placed in Mrs. Austin's hands for another edition. She commenced the prepara tion, but her death left the work unaccomplished, and it devolved, at the request of the executors, on the present editor, whose edition was published in 1869. Of this the edition of 1873 is a reprint with a few slight verbal corrections.

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