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Norman Conquest &quot; (1880), and a &quot; General Sketch 

 of European History&quot; (1873). The &quot; Growth of 

 the English Constitution &quot; was suggestively treated 

 in a small volume (1872). There was a &quot; History 

 of the Cathedral Church at Wells&quot; (1870), and 

 there was a collection of &quot; Historical and Architec 

 tural Sketches,&quot; chiefly from Italy (1876), followed 

 by &quot; Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour 

 Lands of Venice &quot; (1881). In these two last- 

 named volumes, illustrated chiefly from the author s 

 own drawings, one sees that his interest in Diocle 

 tian and Theodoric was scarcely less keen than in 

 Alfred of Wessex or William the Norman. No 

 other modern traveller has done such justice to Istria 

 and Dalmatia. &quot; I am not joking,&quot; he writes, &quot; when 

 I say that the best guide to those parts is still the 

 account written by the Emperor Constantine Por- 

 phyrogenitus more than nine hundred years back. 

 But it is surely high time that there should be an 

 other.&quot; Freeman s accurate knowledge of south 

 eastern Europe and its peoples, coupled with his 

 wide and comprehensive study of the contact be 

 tween Christians and Mussulmans in all ages, led 

 him to take very sound and wholesome views of the 

 unspeakable Turk and the everlasting Eastern Ques 

 tion ; and in 1877, when public attention was so 

 strongly directed toward the Balkans, he published 



