SERIES IV. Civil War and Reconstruction--Free Trade and Protection--Finance and Civil-Service Reform. “Regarded merely as studies in language, these orations contain some of the most eloquent and persuasive speeches in the English tongue. But more than this, the present collection has a permanent historical value which can hardly be overestimated. The very spirit of the times is preserved in these utterances; and, presented in this cogent form, history in a peculiar sense repeats itself to the reader, who feels the impulse of past events and the vitality of great principles behind them.”--_School Journal._ G. P. Putnam’s Sons NEW YORK LONDON “_Thoroughly well-informed and scholarly._” _Prof. Charles M. Andrews, Johns Hopkins University_ The Making of the English Constitution 449–1485 By Albert Beebe White Professor of History in the University of Minnesota _8vo._ _440 pages._ _$2.00 net_ “This book is of interest as being the first text-book, that is a book for beginners in constitutional history, which has deliberately disregarded the older doctrines and joined the movement for a reconstruction of our familiar conceptions of Anglo-Saxon institutions.... [The author] has treated the subject with great clearness of analysis and statement, a familiarity with the best research in the field, and probably as good a combination of the topical and chronological arrangement as can be made. There is no more clear and scholarly treatise on English constitutional history during the Middle Ages in existence.”--_=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.=_ “The book impresses me as accurate and reliable.... Excellent material has been given to the judiciary and the Parliament.... The book is written in clear English, and the style is readable.... It is a satisfaction to find that the author has given us not merely a condensation of Stubbs, but a fresh account of his subject. The author is to be commended also for generally refusing to devote space to controversial problems.”--_=Professor Lawrence Larson, University of Illinois.=_ _Send for descriptive circular_ G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Representative British Orations with Introductions and Explanatory Notes,, by Various