Edward Augustus Freeman 285 



It is some slight consolation for our bitter loss 

 to know that many of the great historian's books 

 were in large part written long before he felt the 

 time to be ripe for completing and publishing 

 them. Some of the unfinished portions may be 

 brought toward completeness and edited by other 

 hands. In this way I hope we may look for one 

 or two more volumes of the " Sicily," and perhaps 

 for the second volume of the " Federal Government," 

 dealing with the Swiss and other German federa- 

 tions. Probably no other Englishman, and few 

 other men anywhere in our time, knew anything 

 like so much as Freeman about the history of 

 Switzerland. I once or twice begged him to make 

 haste and finish that volume, but desisted ; for it 

 was evident that " Sicily " was absorbing him, and 

 an author does not like to be pestered with advice 

 to turn aside from the work that is uppermost in 

 his mind. 



November, 1892. 



