[Transcriber's note: This production is based on https://archive.org/details/historyoforigino00guiz/page/n9. The lecture subheadings (page headers) are shown in italics. The publisher has included a lengthy list of other books on the front and back fly leafs. These have gathered at the end of this file. Several of these pages are obscured by library inserts for circulation control.] {i} Bohn's Standard Library. Guizot's Representative Government. {ii} {iii} History Of The Origin Of Representative Government In Europe. By M. Guizot. Translated By Andrew E. Scoble, London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1852. {iv} Printed By Harrison And Son, London Gazette Office, St. Martin's Lane; And Orchard Street, Westminster. {v} Preface. In 1820, at the time when the various faculties of the _Académie de Paris_ and the _Collège de France_ were recommencing their courses of lectures, several persons combined to establish a _Journal des Cours Publiques_, in which they reproduced, from their notes, the lectures which they had attended. The course which I delivered, at this period, on the history of Representative Government, occupies a place in this collection. I did not revise the analyses of my lectures which were published. They were brief and incomplete, and frequently incorrect and confused. I have been requested to authorize a reprint of them. I could not consent to this without bestowing upon these analyses, at the present day, that labour of revision to which they were not subjected at the time of their publication. The two volumes which I now publish are the result of this labour, which has been more protracted, and has involved more considerable alterations than I at first anticipated. In order to accomplish it, I have frequently had recourse to my _Essaies sur l'Histoire de France_, in which I embodied, in 1823, some of my researches on the same subject. This course of lectures on the origin of Representative Government is now as exact and complete as if my lectures in 1820-1822 had been collected and revised with the same care as I bestowed, in 1827-1830, on the publication of my courses on the General History of Civilization in Europe, and on the History of Civilization in France. {vi}