_E. M. de Romainmotier_ was born at Bern in 1734, and became known to the world chiefly through the military history. This, though a somewhat mediocre production as a literary work, contains important facts not to be found elsewhere. =McCracken=, W. D., Rise of the Swiss Republic, New York, 1901.--=Mémoires et Documents= publié par la Société de la Suisse romande, Lausanne.--=Meyer von Knonau=, Gerold, Eidg. Abschiede; St. Gallische Geschichtsquellen, St. Gall, 1870-81, 5 vols.; Die Sage von der Befreiung der Waldstätte, Bâle, 1873.--=Meyer=, H., Die Denare und Bractealen in der Schweiz, Zurich, 1858-60; Geschichte der XIᵉ und XXIᵉ Legion, Mittheilungen de Zürich, Zurich, 1853.--=Meyer=, J., Geschichte des schweiz. Bundesrechts, Zurich, 1849-1852, 2 vols.--=Meyer von Knonau=, Ludwig, Handbuch der Geschichte der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft, Zurich, 1843, 2 vols. _Louis Meyer von Knonau_ was born at Zurich September 12, 1769. He studied history, law, and philology at Halle, where he became an ardent disciple of Professor Wolf. He filled various diplomatic offices with firmness and intelligence, retired to private life in 1839, and died September 6, 1841. His history of the confederation is one of the most accurate and complete at the disposition of the student. His son, Gerold, born March 2, 1804, followed in his father’s footsteps and devoted himself to public life. The government confided to his care the archives of Zurich and charged him with the publication of the documents of the federal diet. He died November 1, 1858. =Miles=, H., Chronik, St. Gall., 1902.--=Mohr=, T. von, Die Regesten der Benedictiner-Abtei Einsiedeln, Chur., 1848.--=Mommsen=, T., Römische Geschichte, Berlin, 1885, 5 vols.; Inscriptiones Confœderationes helveticæ, Mitt. d. antiq. Ges., Zurich, vols. 10 and 15. _Theodor Mommsen_, an eminent historian, was born Nov. 30, 1817, at Garding, Schleswig, of a Danish family. He was displaced in 1852 from the chair of law at Leipsic for partisanship in political events, but was immediately called to that of the University of Zurich. During the Franco-Prussian War he was among the bitterest enemies of France. =Monnard=, C., Histoire de la Confédération suisse, Zurich, 1847-1853, 5 vols. _Charles Monnard_ was born in 1790, and died at Bonn in 1865. His chief labor was the continuation of the history of Switzerland by J. von Müller. His classic style is apt to strike us of to-day as too stilted, but it is easily overlooked in the appreciation due to his solid merit, his simple modesty, his generous and liberal spirit.