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Freeman (E. A.) continued. 



viz. the Achaian League, the Siviss Cantons, the United Provinces, the 

 United States. The first volume, besides containing a General Introduc- 

 tion, treats of the first of these. In -writing this volume the author has 

 endeavoured to combine a text which may be instructive and interesting to 

 any thoughtful reader, whether specially learned or not, with notes which 

 may satisfy the requirements of the most exacting scholar. " The task 

 Mr. Freeman has undertaken," the SATURDAY REVIEW says, "is one 

 of great magnitude and importance. It is also a task of an almost 

 entirely novel character. -No other work professing to give the history of 

 a political principle occurs to us, except the slight contributions to the 

 history of representative government that is contained in a course of 

 M. Guizo? s lectures .... The history of the development of a principle 

 is at least as important as the history of a dynasty, or of a race. ' 



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