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The Interpretation of Italy During tlie Last Two Centuries 



A Contfifaution to Goethc^s Italienische Reise 



By Camillo von Klenze, Professor of German l^iterature in Brown University 



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HE aim of this investigation is to study the attitude toward 

 Italy taken by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with 

 a view to determining, not merely what those generations 

 saw or failed to see in the peninsula, but in how far Goethe's 

 Italienische Reise — a book the value of which has been so vari- 

 ously estimated — shows dependence on the preferences and 

 prejudices of its time, and furthermore how far, if at all, Goethe 

 goes beyond his contemporaries. In this fashion the author 

 hopes to eliminate from our judgment of this famous work that 



element of shifting subjectivity which 



often prevailed. 



The author's extensive researches in European libraries have 

 unearthed many volumes little known to scholars. 



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LEGISLATIVE 



HISTORY 



NATURALIZATION 



UNITED STATES 



IV 



FROM THE DECLARATION OF INOEPENDENCE TO THE CIVIL WAR 



By FRANK GEORGE FRANKLIN 



T^HE process by which our national laws rose out of chaos is a subject of peren- 

 ■*• nial interest. Our procedure regarding naturalization is the outcome of long 

 and intricate debates, where sectional and party feeling ran high. These debates 

 Mr. Franklin describes in brief, clear fashion, beginning with the Revolutionary period 

 and the convention of 1787, The formation of the various Naturalization Acts is 

 described, with the influence of each faction and each notable man. The exciting 

 scenes in House and Senate in the years before the Civil War are recounted, and 

 the history terminates with the great conflict. With scarcely a comment of bis 

 own, the writer traces the development of a national conception from the interplay .. 

 of varying opinion and opposing interests. Incidentally a strong light is thrown on 

 the inner history of the government in the period of its first struggles after unification. 

 The work is one that will interest all well-informed American citizens. To the 

 student of American laws it will henceforth be indispensable, 



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