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a lucid and graphic little volume on " The Ottoman 

 Power in Europe." This book was a companion to 

 the "History of the Saracens," above mentioned, 

 and the two together make as good an introduction 

 to Mussulman history in its relations to Europe 

 as the general reader is likely to find. 



Among the host of side works which were issued 

 during these years, two call for especial mention. 

 In the lectures on " Comparative Politics," given 

 at the Royal Institution in 1873, Freeman ana- 

 lyzed and described the different forms assumed by 

 Aryan institutions among Greeks, Romans, and 

 Teutons. This book is his most distinct attempt to 

 make his central theme the career of an institu- 

 tion, such as kingship or representative assemblies, 

 rather than the career of a state or a people. In the 

 " History of Federal Government," the two kinds 

 of treatment, analytical and synthetical, were com- 

 bined in a way that would, I think, have made that 

 his grandest work, had it been completed. In the 

 lectures we get an able analysis and comparison, 

 full of fruitful suggestions, and in our author's 

 happiest style. There is not the originality of 

 scholarship here that we find in Sir Henry Maine, 

 nor do we find the breadth of view that can be 

 gained only when the barbaric non- Aryan world is 

 taken into account. Such breadth was not to be 



