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A class will be held at the end of the lecture, during which further information will be given on points not fully treated in the lecture. The exercises are based upon the lecture and the references for reading. Any person attending the lecture is invited to send answers to any one of the questions given; such answers should be addressed to the lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, and should arrive at least three days before the next lecture. Upon the paper should be placed some signature, the name of the Center and the date. These papers will be returned with comments at the class, when the question will be further discussed. It is desirable that questions be appended to these papers regarding matters of difficulty which may have arisen during the lecture or in connection with the reading, that such questions may be the more readily discussed at the following meeting. All persons attending the lectures are invited to this class, whether they have sent in exercises to the lecturer or not.

BYBA.

Copyrighted, 1891, by

The American Society for the Extension of University Teaching

(RECAP)

"The history of our entire nineteenth century is precisely the history of all the work which the Revolution did leave. The Revolution was a creating force even more than it was a destroying one; it was an inexhaustible source of fertile influences; it not only cleared the ground of the old society but it manifested all the elements of the new society. Truly we may call the Revolution the crisis of modern reconstruction."-Frederic Harrison.

"In the year 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte ceased to reign over Europe, and, after a short interval, Clement Metternich reigned in his stead."-Maurice.

"When the odor of decay permeates society then the fountains of abyss break forth upon it and floods roll over it. In the language of the children of men it is called a Revolution; in the language of the supernals it is a revulsion toward the standard of eternal order."-Letter of Professor Görres, quoted by Sybel.

"It seemed, in 1850, as if despotism were triumphant, but appearances were deceitful. Sisera could not conquer, for the stars in their courses were fighting against him. The movement toward constitutional freedom and the independence of oppressed nationalities was a movement which had been gathering strength for more than two generations. For its remote sources we must look back to the middle of the eighteenth century, when English ideas of constitutional liberty were at length taken up and incorporated into the speculations of French philosophers, whose writings were widely read upon the continent."-John Fiske.

1. GENERAL AUTHORITIES.

LODGE: A History of Modern Europe.
MÜLLER: Political History of Recent Times.
FYFFE: A History of Modern Europe, 3 vols.
ALISON History of Europe, 4 vols. 1815-1852.

DYER: Modern Europe, Vol. V.

ROSE, J. H.: A Century of Continental History. 1780-1880.

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