couple of thousand pounds could nowhere be invested with a safer prospect & advantage than on the coal field as near as possible to Lassalle, which would command a sale to the north by rail as far as Wisconsin, & by Canal to Chicago. With our kind regards to Lady Walmsley & all your circle Believe me Yours very truly R. COBDEN MY DEAR WALMSLEY MIDHURST 18 Dec 1858 I return by this post your sons MS. Pray, thank him if he be still with you. Moffat sent out some suggestions formed on the report, & by last mail we got a reply to one of them about taking more care of the cars &c, in which the President says that their cars & carriages if put close together on a line would extend 151⁄2 miles & that to build sheds for them would be unwise, & that they place them on sidings away from the great depots to avoid the risk of fire. I suppose the wood is so cheap in those parts that it is better to make the cars &c serve for their own sheds than put them under cover of stone buildings. I have attended several Committee meetings lately. There will not I think be any call. Money will be raised to meet the probable deficit in some other way. Blighted harvests, inundations, panic, &c have thrown things back very much, & of course we all find fault with something or somebody when we are in distress & difficulty. But if the accidents of nature had gone the other way, If we had had bad harvests in Europe & good harvests in Illinois, the traffic would have doubled, & if we should have had a greater rush of immigrants than ever, Then we should have been offering testimonials to our directors! Caird has come back highly impressed with the land. He is now writing a pamphlet on it, & will form a Company for purchasing estates & put some money himself into it. He says with the exception of a small corner of the South East of Wisconsin, he saw no land for fertility & situation to compare with Illinois, & for extent of continuous good land, he thinks there is nothing in the world like it Ever Yours R C. P. S. We have been reading with great pleasure your son's [Hugh Mulleneux Walmesley] volume which you were so good as to send us. He really writes with the pen of an artist, & I expect to see him reap still higher literary triumphs. It is strange & not a little creditable than one who has been so much engaged in the worlds action should write so like a professional author But I suppose it is the result of the few years of quiet intellectual retirement in Switzerland. Our kindest regards to Lady Walmsley & all your circle. * Sir James Caird, who wrote Prairie Farming in America; with notes on Canada and the United States. (London: Longmans, 1859. 8°.) LONDON 18 Apl 1860 MY DEAR WALMSLEY I was much pleased to hear good accounts of you & yours before I received your kind note asking me to come & pay you a visit at Wolverton Park. Nothing would be more agreeable to me or suit my health better. But I am leaving England on friday for Paris to complete the arrangements of the treaty. It will be a business of details, & I fear involving a good deal of trouble. The papers have exaggerated my illness which has been nothing but a relaxed mucus membrane of the throat, similar to what clergymen sometimes suffer from— the effect I suppose of too much talking. I am now pretty well recovered, & if we can only have some warm weather, which seems very difficult to get, I shall be free from all annoyances. I left my wife & children in Paris. We shall resume our old quarters at Dumford in June. My wife is in every respect much better than she was formerly. The children are also fairly out of the trials of the winter. Katey is grown almost as tall as her mamma. The little ones long to return home again. I hope Lady Walmsley & all your family circle are well. Remember me kindly to them & believe me Yours truly R. COBDEN MY DEAR WALMSLEY MIDHURST 16 NOV 1863 We must in the first place congratulate you & Lady Walmsley in the increase of your patriarchal honors. I was so fortunate as to meet Doctor Hodgson in London on the day of this happy event, & have been glad to hear since that mother & child are doing well. When I was with you I spoke of our breed of Turkeys. A pair of promising ones have been reserved for you. How can they be forwarded? We could pack them in a hamper & forward them by omnibus to Haslemere & could reckon on their being sent forward direct by first train to Woking. But it might be well if you were to lay your plans for having them cared for at that place, & promptly sent down to your address. Let me know how to manage. My wife joins me in kind regards to Lady Walmsley and Ada. Katie is on a visit near Crawley. Yours truly Believe me R COBDEN MY DEAR WALMSLEY, THURSDAY EVENING I have yours this evening, and rejoice to find you in so hopeful & resolute a spirit. If energy industry and tact can win I know you have enough of those essential qualities for an election contest to put your opponents at the bottom of the poll. You must consider that there is far more than your own personal fate in the balance, for if we were defeated it would undoubtedly be taken as a verdict from a free & democratic constituency against the principles which we and the rest of us advocate in the House. We have to-day got through the estimates, and every body now says we shall have the dissolution on the 26th. Nobody seems to want any further delay -The ministerial party are not gaining anything by the longer postponement, & therefore I suppose we may consider the matter settled. I had the pleasure of seeing Lady Walmsley & your daughter at tea on Saturday, & was glad to observe Lady W. looking so well. Bright & Gibson have returned from Manchester. They report matters more than safe there. In fact it is very hollow business the opposition. The old whigs do not seem to have come out against them (altho their votes are always as radical as your own) in the way they have done in Leicester, against you. There is no Committee published on this side of Denman & Loch. Remember me to the Briggs & all friends & be sure you win. LIST OF BOOKS AND SOME ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, RELATING TO POLITICAL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Prepared by Miss A. R. Hasse, Chief of the Document Department. PART I. GENERAL TREATISES AND PAPERS. Abbott (Lyman). The rights of man; a study in twentieth century problems. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. xi, 376 pp. 12°. (In the: Outlook. v. 67, pp. 810814, passim, v. 68, pp. 41-49, passim.) Acollas (Pierre Antoine René Paul Emile). Philosophie de la science politique, et commentaire de la déclaration des droits de l'homme de 1793. Paris: A. Marescq, ainé, 1877. 3 p. l., iii-vii, 524 pp. 8°. Affolter (A.) Staat und Recht. Versuche über allgemeines Staatsrecht. (Annal. d. Deut. Reichs. v. 36, pp. 51-70; 113-128; 161-193. München, 1903.) Arnd (Karl). Die Staatsverfassung nach dem Beduerfniss der Gegenwart. Frankfurt a. M.: H. L. Brönner, 1857. viii, 328 pp. 8°. Arntzenius (Abraham Robert). *De staatsleer van J. J. Rousseau... 5 p. 1., 204 pp. Leiden: L. van Nifterik Hz. printer, 1873. 8°. Asgill (John). The assertion is, that the title of the house of Hanover to the succession of the British Monarchy (on failure of issue of her present Majesty) is a title hereditary, and of divine institution. 2. ed. London: J. Darby, printer, 1710. 36 pp. 8°. Augustinus, Aurelianus, Bishop of Hippo. De civitate dei libri xxii, juxta Ed. Benedict, accedunt collationes J. Blanchini. Neapoli, 1748. F°. - La cité de Dieu. [Paris,] 1843-45. 2 v. 8°. Ballanche (Pierre Simon). Essai sur les institutions sociales. (In his: Euvres. Paris, 1830. V. 2. 8°.) Brugière de), baron. Paris: V. Masson, Barante (A. G. P. Questions constitutionelles. 1849. 2 p. l., 175 pp., Il. 8°. Bard (Alphonse), and Robiquet (P.) Droit constitutionnel comparé. Paris: E. Thorin, 1876. vii, 400 pp. 8°. Barlow (Joel). Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe, resulting from the necessity and propriety of a general revolution in the principle of government. Part I. London: J. Johnson, 1792. I p. l., 156 pp., 1 1. 2. ed. 8°. 3. ed. 2 p. 1., 167 pp. 8°. New York: Childs & Swaine, 1792 94. 2 v. in I. 12°. Batavus (Justus), pseud. Verhandeling over de gelijkheid der menschen, als het oorspronglijke richtsnoer voor's menschen handelingen, en de rechten en pligten, die, in de maatschappij, wederkeerig uit dezelve voortvloeien. Amsterdam: H. Brongers, 1794. 2 p. l., viii, 60 pp. nar. 8°. Bedenkingen over het oorsprongelyk berusten der oppermacht van het volk...en om zyne wettige rechten te handhaven, zo menigmaal men inbreuk op dezelven maakt. Wordende deze bedenkingen voorgegaan door een herdruk van een... boekje, eertyds uitgegeven door een Rotterdammer Leyden: L. Herdingh, 1785. xii, 1 l., 82 pp. ... nar. 8°. [Benson (W.)] A letter to Sir J— B[i. e., Sir Jacob Banks] by birth a Swede, but naturaliz'd and a m-r of the present P-t; concerning the late Minehead doctrine, which was establish'd by a certain Free Parliament of Sweden; to the utter enslaving of that kingdom. [By William Benson.] London: H. Baldwin, 1711. 4 p. l., 40 pp. 12°. II. ed. 2 p. l., 35 pp. 8°. London: E. Sanger, 1711. Bentham (Jeremy). A fragment on government, being an examination of what is delivered on the subject of government in general in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries, with a preface, in which is given a critique on the work at large. London; T. Payne, 1776. 2 p. l., Ivii, 1 l., 208 pp. 8°. A fragment on government; or, a comment on the Commentaries .. London: E. Wilson, 1823. 2. ed. lii, 49-143, 48 pp. 8°. A fragment on government; edited, with an introduction, by F. C. Montague. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891. xii, 241 pp. 8°. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation. (In his: Works. Edinburgh, 1843. v. I. 8°.) Selections. (In: Selby-Bigge, L. A. British moralists. Oxford, 1897. V. I, pp. 337389. 8°.) Bertheau (C.) L'égalité. Paris: A. Pedone, 1899. 284 pp. 12°. Blakey (R.) The history of political literature from the earliest times. London, 1855. 2 v. 8°. Bluntschli ([Johann Caspar]). Allgemeines Statsrecht. München: J. G. Cotta, 1868. 2 v. 4. ed. 8°. Le droit public général; traduit de l'allemand...par A. Riedmatten. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie., 1885. xi, 426 pp. 2. ed. 8°. (Econ. et publ. contemp.) Lehre vom modernen Stat. Stuttgart, 18758°. 76. 3 v. 1, 2, 5e umgearbeitete Auflage des 1. Bandes des allgemeinen Statsrechts. Théorie générale de l'état. Traduit de l'allemand [i. e. from Th. I of "Lehre vom modernen Stat"] et précédé d'une préface par A. de Riedmatten. Paris: Guillaumin & Cie., 1881. xxviii, 492 pp. 2. ed. 8°. (Publicistes et économistes contemporains.) The theory of the state; . . . translated from the 6. German edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885. xx, 518 pp. 8°. Bodin (Jean). Les six livres de la république. Paris, 1577. 36 p. l., 1102 pp. 12°. Boislandry (Louis de). Divers articles proposés pour entrer dans la déclaration des droits. [Versailles: Baudouin, 1794.] II pp. 12°. Bollan (W.) Right of every man to speak and write freely: defence of the free state of man in England. London, 1772. 4°. Bonald (Louis Gabriel Ambroise de), vicomte. Demonstration philosophique du principe constitutif de la société. (In his: Euvres. Paris, 1853. [vol. 1, pp. 401-520. 8°.) Essai analytique sur les lois naturelles de l'ordre social, ou du pouvoir, du ministre et du sujet dans la société. (In his: Euvres. [Discours politiques.] Paris, 1847. pp. 1-122. 8°.) La législation primitive considérée...par les seules lumières de la raison. 4. ed. Paris, 1847. 2 p. l., 560 pp. 8°. 5. ed. Paris, 1857. 2 p. l., 560 pp. 8°. Théorie du pouvoir politique et religieux dans la société civile, démontrée par le raisonnement et par l'histoire; suivi de la théorie de l'éducation sociale, et de l'administration publique. Paris: Le Clere, 1854. 2 v. 8°. Borgeaud (C.) Adoption and amendment of constitutions in Europe and America... translated by C. D. Hazen... introduction by J. M. Vincent. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1895. xxi, 353 pp. 12°. Bouglé (C.) Les idées égalitaires; étude sociologique. Paris: F. Alcan, 1899. I p. l., 249 pp., 1 1. 8°. (Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine.) Boutmy (E[mile]). Études de droit constitutionnel. France-Angleterre-États-Unis. Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1885. 2 p. l., iv, 272 Pp., 1 l. 12°. Same. 1888. 2. ed. 2 p. 1., viii, 345 pp., I 1. 12°. Bradbury (Thomas). The divine right of kings enquir'd into, and stated; not by the lusts of men, but the (revealed) will of God. In a sermon preach'd November 5, 1718. London: R. Cruttenden, 1718. 34 PP. 2. ed. 12°. [Brecknock (Timothy)]. Droit le roy; or, a digest of the rights and prerogatives of the imperial crown of Great Britain, by a member of the Society of Lincoln's Inn [i. ., Timothy Brecknock]. London: W. Griffin, 1764. 1 p. l., v-xii, 95 pp. 8°. Broom (Herbert). Constitutional law viewed in relation to common law and exemplified by cases. London: W. Maxwell, 1866. xxviii, to12 pp. 8°. Same. 1885. 2. ed., by G. L. Denman. XXV, (1), 1026 pp. 8°. Brougham and Vaux (1. baron), H. P. Brougham. Political Philosophy. London: C. Knight & Co., 1844-46. 3 v. 8°. Brown (William Lawrence). An essay on the natural equality of men, on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes. Edinburgh: T. Duncan, 1793. v-xxi, 1 l., 272 pp. 8°. An essay on the natural equality of men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes. Corrected and enlarged. Edinburgh: T. Duncan, 1793. xxi, 1 l., 272 pp. 8°. An essay on the natural equality of men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes. Philadelphia: J. Ormrod, 16. 1793. 191 pp., 1 1. 1. Amer. ed. Brutus, Junius. See: Languet (Hubert). Bryce (James). Flexible and rigid constitutions. (In his: Studies in history and jurisprudence. New York, 1901. pp. 124-215. 8°.) Buchanan (George). Rerum Scoticarum historia. . . De jure regni apud Scotos. Trajecti aa Rhenum: A. Schouten, 1697. 76 pp., 2 l., 700 pp., 18 1. 12°. (In his Opera omnia. Lugduni Batavorum, 1725. 4°.) Bundesstaatsrecht (Das) der Nordamerikanischen Union, der Schweiz, und des Norddeutschen Bundes, zusammengestellt von einem Juristen. München: M. Rieger, 1868. 58 pp. 8°. Burgess (John W[illiam]). Political science and comparative constitutional law. V. I-2. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1891. 2 v. 8°. (Systematic series, edited by the University Faculty of Political Sci., in Columbia College.) v. 1. Sovereignty and liberty. v. 2. Government. Boston, 1900. 2 V. 8°. |