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ABSTRACT HENRY SIDGWICK'S exposition of the theory of politics was published in two editions in his lifetime, as is well known to all English students of the subject. These posthumous

lectures are the historical complement, “an evolutionary study of the development of polity within the historic period in Europe,” as Mrs. Sidgwick says in her preface. The author conceived,

as the final part of the work, a comparative study of living modern constitutions, founded so far as possible on personal observation. He did not live, unhappily, to carry out any

substantial portion of that design. Everyone who knew Sidgwick or was acquainted with his work would expect his account of any period or aspect of European history to be sound and careful,

notwithstanding that he was not a professed historian. Everyone who knows anything of the difference between finished and not quite finished work is aware of the difficulties that commonly

attend the posthumous publication of an author's materials, even if he has not had the experience of being charged with such a production himself. General observations of this kind

prepare the way, in many cases, for an appreciation more or less apologetic in tone. The Development of European Polity. By Henry Sidgwick. Pp. xxvi + 454. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.;

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