Viewing "Sensational Trials or Cause Célèbres (Chiefly in High Life), etc." by Civilian (1865)."Sensational Trials or Cause Célèbres (Chiefly in High Life), etc." by Civilian (1865).This book consists short accounts of 23 criminal, divorce, bankruptcy and other infamous trials. The author, who styles himself "civilian," seems to assume that the reader in the year of publication has some familiarity with the backgrounds of the cases, which of course the 21st century reader lacks. |