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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)
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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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