useful and stimulating studies of a great period, fruitful in great men, and in lessons of enduring meaning. They are simply sketches, as far as I could make them, fair and accurate and living sketches, -but nothing more.

I have been careful, and even minute, in my references, where, from the character of the statements in the text, I judged it necessary to be so; and in some instances these references may be found serviceable by the student.

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE, ST. ANDREWS,

23d May, 1859.