VON RANKE, LEOPOLD
History of the Popes

A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end
of Volume XX.

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_Acknowledgment_

Acknowledgment and thanks for permitting the use of the
selection by H.A. Taine on "Modern Régime," appearing in this
volume, are hereby tendered to Madame Taine-Paul-Dubois, of
Menthon St. Bernard, France, and Henry Holt & Co., of New
York.

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SAMUEL ELIOT


History of the United States


Samuel Eliot, a historian and educator, was born in Boston in
1821, graduated at Harvard in 1839, was engaged in business