same year he dedicated to his lifelong friend, William Whewell, Four Lectures on the Advantages of a Classical Education, as an Auxiliary to a Commercial Education. Among his purely constitutional treatises may be mentioned Ruins of Time exemplified in Sir Matthew Hale's Pleas of the Crown (1856). The object of this was to advocate the adoption of a code of criminal law. In 1857 followed The English Constitution in the Reign of King Charles the Second, and in 1859 Observations on the Statutes of the Reformation Parliament in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, in which he presented a different view of the subject from that of the corresponding chapters of Mr. Froude's History, which had then lately appeared. Among his purely literary works may be mentioned Gems of Latin Poetry (1851), a collection, with notes, of choice Latin verses of all periods, and illustrating remarkable actions and occurrences, "biography, places, and natural phenomena, the arts, and inscriptions". In 1858 he published Martial and the Moderns, a translation into English prose of select epigrams of Martial arranged under heads with examples of the uses to which they had been applied. He published various introductory lectures on diverse parts of the laws of England, and pamphlets on various subjects, such as the constitution of the new county courts, the expediency of admitting the testimony of parties to suits, and other measures of legal reform. Amos's political and philosophical convictions were those of an advanced liberalism qualified by a profound knowledge of the constitutional development of the country and of the sole conditions under which the public improvements for which he longed and lived could alone be hopefully attempted. Though he was in constant communication with the leading reformers of his day, and was a candidate for Kingston upon Hull on the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832, he concerned himself little at any time with strictly party politics. Selected works Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other subjects . . . References External links 1791 births 1860 deaths English legal writers Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of the Middle Temple People educated at Eton College Downing Professors of the Laws of England English barristers