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PREFACE

University, Senator H. C. Lodge, Representatives W. L. Wilson and W. C. Breckinridge, Professors Anson D. Morse, J. B. McMaster, and A. B. Hart, Messrs. Alfred Russell, Charles F. Adams, Amasa M. Eaton, T. N. Brown, J. B. Bishop, F. J. Stimson, L. N. Dembitz, E. J. McDermott, V. M. Francis, Dr. Washington Gladden, and the Secretaries of State of the six new States, as well as from Mr. J. G. Bourinot of Ottawa, Canada.

Nor can he let pass this opportunity of expressing his warm and grateful sense of the kindness with which his efforts to set forth the political and social phenomena of the United States have been received in that country.

February 26, 1893.