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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past Politics and Politics present History.-Freeman

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LOCAL GOVERNMEnt in Illinois

BY ALBERT SHAW, A. B.

Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA

BY E. R. L. GOULD, A. B.

Read before the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882

BALTIMORE

PUBLISHED BY THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

JANUARY, 1883.

OF THE

Johns Hopkins University Studies

IN

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

H. B. ADAMS, Editor.

The following Studies are either ready for the press or in active preparation. Some of them will be published in the first instance by the University. Others will be reprints from the proceedings of learned societies, magazines, etc., where they appear in some cases under titles slightly different from those here adopted. The idea of this series is to bring together, in numbered monographs, kindred contributions to Historical and Political Science, so that individual efforts may gain strength by combination and become more useful as well as more accessible to students. The Studies will be published at monthly intervals, but not necessarily in separate form or in the following order. A limited edition only of each monographic number will be issued and a price will be set upon each as soon as it appears. A few single copies will be sold upon applica tion and receipt of price. By paying three dollars in advance, subscribers may avoid the inconvenience of small remittances and be assured of receiving, at lower rates, the first twelve numbers, comprising more than twelve papers and from 300 to 400 pages.

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I. An Introduction to American Institutional History. By EDWARD A. FREEMAN, D.C.L., LL.D. With an account of Mr. Freeman's Visit to Baltimore, by the Editor, republished from the Johns Hopkins University Circular, No. 20. (Now ready. Price, 25 cents).

II. The Germanic Origin of New England Towns. Read before the Harvard Historical Society, May 9, 1881. By H. B. ADAMS, Ph. D. Heidelberg, 1876; Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University. With Notes on Cooperation in University Work. (Now ready. Price, 40 cents).

III. Local Government in Illinois.

Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review. By ALBERT SHAW, A. B. Iowa College, 1879; Johns Hopkins University, 1881-2: and Local Government in Pennsylvania. Read before the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882. By E. R. L. GOULD, A. B. Victoria University, 1881; Fellow in History, Johns Hopkins University, 1882. (Now ready. Price 30 cents.)

IV. Saxon Tithingmen in America. Read before the American Antiquarian Society, October 21, 1881. By H. B. ADAMS. (Now ready. Price 25 cents.

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LOCAL GOVERNMEnt in Illinois

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA

"It is not creditable to us as an educated people that while our students are well acquainted with the state machinery of Athens and Rome, they should be ignorant of the corresponding institutions of our own forefathers: institutions that possess a living interest for every nation that realises its identity, and have exercised on the well-being of the civilised world an influence not inferior certainly to that of the Classical nations."- Stubbs, Select Charters.

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