The large indebtedness of the author in com piling these notes to_ one and all of the works enumerated in the bibliography is hereby gladly acknowledged, especial mention being made of Professor Wilson's The State, upon which reliable treatise most of the notes treating of the de velopment of the political institutions of Europe have been based, and of Professor Myers's admir able histories, which have furnished the frame work for the historical notes.
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