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HISTORY, AND SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

Handbook of Dates. By HENRY CLINTON BROWN. 12 mo. Cloth. viii+182 pp. Price.....

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Arranged alphabetically and chronologically, comprising all the important events from the earliest ages to within the present decade.

The Honors of the Empire State in the War of the Rebellion.
By TнOS. S. TOWNSEND. Large 12 mo. Cloth. 416 pp.

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A history of the military operations of the Empire State during the Civil War. Who? When? And What? Six Centuries of Men and Events. In Chart form. Price, in Duck case, 50 cents; Leather case........ Political Economy for American Youth. By J. HARRIS PATTON. 12 mo. Cloth. viii+298 pp. Price.....

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It advocates the adoption and maintenance of an economic system suited to American conditions, while at the same time recognizing at their full value commercial and industrial relations with foreign nations. The principles advanced are re-enforced by citations from our national history.

The Eight Hours Day. By SIDNEY WEBB and HAROLD Cox. 12 mo. viii+280 pp. Paper covers. Price.......

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The question is discussed in its historical, economic, and social aspects, and contains a bibliography for further research.

Civics for Young Americans. By Wм. M. GIFFIN. Large 12 mo. 132 pp. With an illustration. Cloth. Price...

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The author shows in a strikingly novel and interesting way, and in language intelligible to a ten-year-old boy, the necessity of government, the different forms of government and the advantages of our government over all others.

Civil Government. By R. E. CLEMENT. 12 mo. Cloth. xiv+ 232 pp. Price......

A brief and lucid treatise on the Federal Constitution, and the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate Governments which preceded it.

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English Political Orations from Wentworth to Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by WILLIAM CLARKE. 12 mo. xvi+312 pp. Cloth, uncut, price, 40 cents; red roan, $1.25; half morc., g. t..I 50 Great speeches on great themes by famous English statesmen. The selection covers a period from 1576 to 1831.

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American History Leaflets.

COLONIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL.

No. 25-JANUARY, 1896.

THE EARLIEST NEW ENGLAND CODE
OF LAWS, 1641.

The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was adopted in 1641, by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Its principal author was Nathaniel Ward, minister at Ipswich, who, according to Winthrop, had been bred to the law. It had been revised by the General Court at an earlier meeting, next considered by the freemen of the several towns, again revised and voted by the General Court. It remained in manuscript and was supposed to be lost until about fifty years ago when Mr. F. C. Gray discovered a copy in the Boston Athenæum from which it was printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in their Collections, 3d series, Vol. VIII. Mr. Gray proved beyond reasonable doubt that this and not John Cotton's earlier printed code, Moses his Judicials, was the code which the General Court adopted in 1641. In 1859 Mr. William H. Whitmore printed this manuscript in fac-simile, with a printed text on the opposite page, in the introduction to his reprint of the Colonial Laws of Massachusetts Bay, 1660. In 1890 he recast this introduction and printed it with some additional material as A Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1686. From the fac-simile in the latter publication the present text is printed. In 1646 a committee including Winthrop, Dudley and Bellingham drew up a defence of the legislation of Massachusetts in which they compared the Body of Liberties with Magna Charta. This is reprinted here from Hutchinson's Collections of Papers, edition of 1769. Further information can be obtained from Mr. Gray's article noted above, from Mr. Whitmore's invaluable Bibliographical Sketch, and from Justin Winsor's America, III., 350. See also Channing and Hart, Guide to the Study of American History, §§ 116–118.

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