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GOVERNMENT. Constitution: Hallam, Consti tutional History of England (8th ed., London, 1855) ; May, Constitutional History of England (3d ed., ib., 1871) ; id., Treatise on the Law, Priv ileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament (10th ed., ib., 1893) ; Bagehot, English Constitu tion (ib., 1872; New York, 1882) ; Creasy, The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the Britan nic Empire (ib., 1872) ; Freeman, The Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times (new ed., London, 1873) ; Stubbs, Constitutional History of England: Its Origin and• Development (3 vols., ib., 1877) ; Boutmy, Le developpement de la constitution et de la societ6 politique en An gleterre (Paris, 1887; new ed. 1897), trans. as The English Constitution (London, 1891) ; Gneist, Englische Verfassungsgeschichte (Berlin, 1882), English trans. (4th ed., London, 1895) ; Burgess, Political Science and Constitutional Law (Boston, 1890) ; Wendt, England, seine Ge schichte,Verfassung und staatlichen Enriehtungen (Leipzig, 1892) ; Goodnow, Comparative Admin istrative Law (New York, 1893) ; Anson, The Law and Custom of the Constitution (Oxford, 1896) ; Taylor, Origin and Growth of the British Constitution (Boston, 1898) ; Macy, The English Constitution (New York, 1899) ; Wilson, The State (Boston, 1901) ; Hall, Treatise on the Foreign Powers and Jurisdiction of the British Crown (Oxford, 1894) ; Pike, A Constitutional History of the House of Lords (London, 1894). Parliament: Green, The Making of England (new ed., London, 1897) ; Ramsay, The Foundations of England (ib., 1898-1902) ; Todd, Parliamentary Government in England, ed. by Walpole (3d ed., ib., 1892) ; id., Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies (ib., 1894) ; Gneist, Das englische Parliament in tausend jahrige Wandelungen (Berlin, 1881; trans., 4th ed., London, 1891) ; G. B. Smith, History of the English Parliament (London, 1892) ; Jephson, The Platform: Its Rise and Progress (ib., 1892) ; Dickinson, The Development of Parliament Dur ing the Nineteenth Century (ib., 1895) ; Carr Comm, Handbook of the Administrations of Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century (ib., 1901) ; also Hansard's Debates, and for special periods, the "Epochs of English History Series," and the authorities referred to in this bibliogra phy under HISTORY. Politics: Lecky, History of

England in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1878-90) ; Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain (London, 1890) ; id., British Empire (ib., 1899) ; Seeley, The Expansion of England (ib., 1893) ; id., Growth of British Policy (ib., 1895) ; Seignobos, Histoire politique de l'Europe contem poraine (Paris, 1897) ; Burrows, History of Foreign Policy of Great Britain (London, 1897) ; Canning, British Rule and Modern Politics (ib., 1898) ; Sanderson, The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century (6 vols., ib., 1898) ; Goldwin Smith, The United Kingdom: A Political History (ib., 1899) ; Wilkins, War and Policy (ib., 1900); Arnold-Foster, The War Office, the Army, and the Empire (ib., 1900) ; Berard, L'Angleterre et l'imperialisme (Paris,--1900) ; Jose, Growth of the Empire: Handbook to History of Greater Britain (London, 1901) ; Hobson, Imperialism (London, 1902) ; Butler-Johnstone, Imperial Federation and Polity (ib., 1902) ; Bonwick, The British Colonies and Their Resources (London, 1886) ; Caldecott, English Colonization and Em pire (New York, 1891) ; Egerton, Short History of British Colonial Policy (London, 1897) ; Cres well. The Growth and Administration of the British Colonies, 1837-97 (ib., 1898) ; Lucas, Historical Geography of the British Colonies, 1837-97 (ib., 1898) ; Zimmerman, Die europtiisch en Kolonien, vol. ii. (Berlin, 1899) ; also the Annual Register and the various official reports, Blue Books, etc. For political history before the eighteenth century and for special periods, con sult the authorities referred to in this bibliog raphy under HISTORY; and for a concise general survey, consult Acland and Ransome, Handbook in Outline of the Political History of England (London, 1895). Local: Chalmers, Local Gov ernment (London, 1883) ; Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England (2d ed., London, 1888) ; Goodnow, Municipal Government in Great Britain, (New York, 1895) ; Maltbie, English Local Government (ib., 1897) ; Wright and Hob house, Outline of Local Government and Local Taxation in England and Wales (London, 1898) ; Odgers, Local Government, in "English Citizen Series" (ib., 1899) ; The English Citizen: His Rights and Responsibilities (13 vols., London, ; Graham, Taxation, Imperial and Local (ib., 1899).