Viewing page 108 of 113

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Macmillan & co. London, who also publishers to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. They have the good fortune to have in their clientage Dr. Edward A. Freeman, whose latest volume, " Comparative Politics," six lectures read before the Royal Institution in London last January and February, with "The Unity of History"; the Rede Lecture, delivered before the University of Cambridge, last year, may be accepted as a novel and successful attempt "to claim for political institutions a right to a scientific treatment of exactly the same kind as that which has been so successfully applied to language, to mythology, and to the progress of culture." To these lectures is as appended a body of highly important Notes, which state, in detail, what could only be mentioned in actual delivery before a large audience and the volume concludes with an unusually good index. Mr. Freeman, it should be borne in mind, is now the most eminent among living British annalists. His "History of the Norman Conquest of England, its Causes and Results", has hitherto been kept out of the American market by its high price, but an edition has been prepared, with all the original maps and plans, which now can be had, in four volumes, at a much reduced price, and the author's latest revision. He deals with the Saxons, the Danes and the Normans of a thousand years back, as if he were composing contemporary history. -- From Macmillian & Co. we have "An Art Tour to the Northern Capitals of Europe", by J. Beavington Atkinson. The