MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 by Unknown
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HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United States. By _Edward A. Freeman_, M.A. Vol. I. General Introduction. History of the Greek Federations. 8vo. 21_s_. _"The task Mr. Freeman has undertaken is one of great magnitude and importance. It is also a task of an almost entirely novel character. No other work professing to give the history of a political principle occurs to us, except the slight contributions to the history of representative government that is contained in a course of M. Guizof's lectures.... The history of the development of a principle is at least as important as the history of a dynasty, or of a race."_--_Saturday Review_. French (George Russell) ----------------------- SHAKSPEAREANA GENEALOGICA. 8vo. cloth extra, 15_s_. Uniform with the "Cambridge Shakespeare." _Part I.--Identification of the_ dramatis personæ _in the historical plays, from King John to King Henry VIII.; Notes on Characters in Macbeth and Hamlet; Persons and Places belonging to Warwickshire alluded to. Part II.--The Shakspeare and Arden families and their connexions, with Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed description, in consecutive order, of each of the_ dramatis personæ _in Shakspeare's immortal chronicle-histories, and some of the characters have |
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