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In Popular Government Sir Henry Sumner Maine examines the political institutions of popular governments. The four essays included are: The Prospects of Popular Government, The Nature of Democracy, The Age of Progress, and The Constitution of the United States, together with an Index. Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a highly respected legal historian, a vigorous critic of democracy, and one of the best writers in the humanities of his generation, convinced many legal historians that law and legal institutions must be studied historically if they are to be understood.

This collection of Lenin's writings and speeches opens up with a preface by N. K. Krupskaya, Lenin's wife and fellow-revolutionary, a prominent figure of the Soviet state; she wrote it especially for this collection of Lenin's articles. An excerpt from the book My Recollections of Lenin written by Clara Zetkin, an outstanding leader of the German and international labor movement, is given as an appendix.

A biography of Elizabethan statesman Lord Burghley covering the period 1520 to 1598. With admirable discernment and masterful documentation, this very readable book presents a general view of the policy of the reign of Elizabeth, especially with relation to the influence exerted upon it by her principal minister. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature.

This book is an attempt to study historically and critically the religious movement inaugurated in the New World by the Quakers, an important movement both for the history of the development of religion and for the history of the American Colonies, and to present it not only in its external setting but also in the light of its inner meeting. At the time of original publication in 1911, Rufus M. Jones, M.A., D.Litt., was Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College; Isaac Sharpless, D.Sc., was President of Haverford College; and Amelia M. Gummere, was author of The Quaker - A Study in Costume.

A well-documented account of one of the principal figures of 15th century Renaissance Florence. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.

A well-documented account of one of the principal figures of 15th century Renaissance Florence. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.

Originally published in 1946, this review was a summary of experience gained during more than a decade in planning low-rent developments.Contents:ForewordGeneral Considerations of Project DesignSit SelectionThe Site PlanThe Dwelling Type: Project DensityThe Dwelling PlanCommunity Buildings and Other Service StructuresSite EngineeringThe Structure: Its Design and MaterialsSelection of UtilitiesMechanical and Electrical DesignLawns and PlantingIndex

This book describes the main industrial types of economic mineral deposits, the signs and indicators for recognizing them, and the criteria for evaluating them. The work of prospecting and the methods used in searching for deposits, and in exploring them, are treated at length. Full information is given on the techniques and systems of prospecting, on the sampling of mineral deposits, on the working down, testing, and controlling of samples. Methods of estimating and evaluating the ore reserves and economic value of deposits are discussed with practical advice; and the geological service of operational mines is described. Professor Kreiter's work is a textbook for students of the geological faculties of universities and mining colleges, specializing in the geology and exploration of mineral deposits. The author of this textbook, the late Prof. Vladimir Kreiter, was a distinguished and honored scientist, who at the time of his death held the chair of mineral deposits and exploration at the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow. In addition to his teaching work, Prof. Kreiter carried on extensive research, his main work being devoted to the study of mineral deposits, the prospecting for and exploration of minerals and the structure of ore fields and deposits. Prof. Kreiter was the author of more than 100 published works, many of them well known abroad as well as in the USSR. In addition to the present volume, they included The Structure of Ore Fields and Deposits, Semi-metallic Deposits of Central Asia, and The Behavior of Gold in the Oxidation Zone of Pyrite Deposits. His books enjoy great authority with the teachers and students of geological faculties.

Autobiographical reminiscences of Horace Greeley which form a record of the inner life and inspiration of one who actively shared in the many strange intellectual and political phases through which America went during years of intense vitality. Horace Greeley himself gives the best indication of their nature: "I shall never write anything else into which I shall put so much of myself, my experiences, notions, convictions, and modes of thought, as these Recollections. I give, with small reserve, my mental history."

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, best known for his scientific writings. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. His well-known essay on Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical was considered one of the most useful and profound books written on education. He projected a vast 10-volume work, Synthetic Philosophy, in which all phenomena are interpreted according to the principle of evolutionary progress. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. Although no longer influential in biology, his extension of his theory of evolution to psychology and sociology remains important. His "Social Darwinism" was particularly influential on early evolutionary economists such as Thorstein Veblen. As subeditor of the Economist (1843-53), Spencer was an influential exponent of laissez-faire. His early book Social Statics (1851) was strongly tinged with an individualistic outlook.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, best known for his scientific writings. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. His well-known essay on Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical was considered one of the most useful and profound books written on education. He projected a vast 10-volume work, Synthetic Philosophy, in which all phenomena are interpreted according to the principle of evolutionary progress. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. Although no longer influential in biology, his extension of his theory of evolution to psychology and sociology remains important. His "Social Darwinism" was particularly influential on early evolutionary economists such as Thorstein Veblen. As subeditor of the Economist (1843-53), Spencer was an influential exponent of laissez-faire. His early book Social Statics (1851) was strongly tinged with an individualistic outlook.

A biography of Noah Webster, the man who compiled Webster's Dictionary, one of the great dictionaries of all time. At the time of original publication in 1883, Harper's Monthly said this book "...is so spirited and enthralling ... and its pictures so teem with the bustle, the movement, and the activities of the real life of a bygone but most interesting age, that the reader lays down the book with a sigh of regret for its brevity." Horace Elisha Scudder (1838-1902) was a prominent man of letters, and for eight years he was editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Scudder was the leading advocate of introducing literature into the schools at a time when such advocacy was uphill work, and he edited a great number of literary classics for school use. He wrote a number of historical and biographical works of value.

A vivid and lively account of Machiavelli's life and times by the noted Italian historian, originally published in 1892. This biography of Machiavelli which tries to unravel the mystery of the character of this Florentine Secretary, either portrayed as a monster of perfidy or as the noblest and purest of patriots, the book provides background on Italy, the Italian Renaissance, and Machiavelli's life from 1469 to 1512. This title is cited and recommended by: Books for College Libraries; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College; and The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature.

A vivid and lively account of Machiavelli's life and times by the noted Italian historian, originally published in 1892. This biography of Machiavelli which tries to unravel the mystery of the character of this Florentine Secretary, either portrayed as a monster of perfidy or as the noblest and purest of patriots, the book provides background on Italy, the Italian Renaissance, and Machiavelli's life from 1469 to 1512. This title is cited and recommended by: Books for College Libraries; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College; and The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature.

The memoirs of noted political activist, Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), who was the author of the 1870 Political Economy for Beginners, a brief but wildly successful book. It set a contemporary record as a principles textbook for students, running through ten editions in 41 years. A vigorous promoter of education for women, she helped set up Newham College for women at Cambridge. In 1865 she heard a speech on women's rights made by John Stuart Mill, who deeply impressed her and she became one of his many loyal supporters.

This is volume two of a two-volume set.Contents of this volume: The Euphrates Frontier and the ParthiansSyria and the Land of the NabataeansJudea and the JewsEgyptThe African ProvincesIndex

This is volume one of a two-volume set.Contents of this volume:IntroductionThe Northern Frontier of ItalySpainThe Gallic ProvincesRoman Germany and the Free GermansBritainThe Danubian Lands and the Wars of the DanubeGreek EuropeAsia Minor

The first edition of this book appeared in 1870 and was established immediately as one of the classical works on comparative mythology. It received appreciation and criticism in equal measures due to the very controversial nature of the conclusions drawn that were labeled as "momentous." However great scholars like Grimm, Max Muller, Breal, Kuhn, Preller, Welcker, H.H. Wilson, Cornewall Lewis, Grote and Thirlwall fully supported all the important findings of this work which came to be recognized as a masterpiece on Aryan mythology. The author argues that the common stock of philosophical material, which supplements the evidence of language for the ultimate affinity of all the Aryan nations, has been molded into an infinite variety of shapes by the writers of Greek and Latin, of Persian and Englishmen, of the ancient and modern Hindus, of Germans and Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Frenchmen and Spaniards. On this common foundation the epic poets of these scattered and long-separated children of one primitive family have raised their magnificent fabrics. From this common source they have derived even the most subtle distinctions of feature and character for their portraits of the actors in the great drama which in some one or more of its many scenes is the theme of all Aryan national poetry. "The purpose of this work is to exhibit clearly and with sufficient fullness the general characteristics of Aryan mythology, as a system which has grown up from words and phrases denoting not one or two objects only, as the sun or moon, but all the phenomena of the sensible world, as they impressed themselves on the minds of primitive men."