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PREFACE.

the Revolutionary era; it is at its height in England, in France and in the United States at present.

To the reader who cares to make a study of it is promised pleasure as well as instruction in the books quoted in the appended bibliography, every one of which has been consulted for the present essay.

H. P. Du B.