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Norman Conquest " (1880), and a " General Sketch 

 of European History" (1873). The " Growth of 

 the English Constitution " was suggestively treated 

 in a small volume (1872). There was a " History 

 of the Cathedral Church at Wells" (1870), and 

 there was a collection of " Historical and Architec- 

 tural Sketches," chiefly from Italy (1876), followed 

 by " Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour 

 Lands of Venice " (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. " I am not joking," he writes, " 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." 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 



