To
All Spinster Aunts and
Bachelor Uncles
who do their duty by
their Nephews and Nieces
in
Matters Testamentary
This Book is affectionately dedicated.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Three minor typographical errors were found and corrected, none affecting the sense of the text. The Foreword is in Latin. For the convenience of the reader it is repeated [at the end of the file] with an informal English translation added. A scanned image of a portion of the book's attractive cover is also preserved at the end of the document.
The drawings by E. T. Reed are linked to copies of higher resolution suitable for printing at 150ppi.
PREFACE.
No one can say that our Motives are unworthy, for our object is to instruct. But there are some who may object to our Methods, and it is to such that we offer, not an apology, but an explanation.
A very large section of the Public cling to the belief that Law must be as dry as Dust, and Accounting as tedious as the Treadmill.
The truth is, it is not the Practice of Law or of Accounting that is uninteresting, but rather is it the Theory which is often rendered so by Teachers whom Providence never ordained to teach.