end, briefly reviewing the more recent development of the Constitution.. The author's main text has been only occasionally touched and enlarged.
From the "History of the English Constitution" by Professor von Gneist, much valuable matter has been incorporated into the foot-notes; and to the work of the brilliant American writer in the same field of research, Mr. Hannis Taylor, to that of Mr. L. O. Pike on the Constitution of the House of Lords, as also to the recent works of Professor A. V. Dicey and Sir William Anson I am obliged for many references and extracts. And, to my friend Mr. H. A. de Colyar, K.C., I am indebted for valuable assistance and suggestions. Other such have been acknowledged, each in place, without its being possible to enumerate here all the authors to whom I am under an obligation.
In conclusion, it is necessary to defend Mr. TaswellLangmead's work against strictures which have been passed upon it by foreign constitutional lawyers, who complain that the book gives insufficient information on the English administrative system. The reply is that such a system, as it obtains in France and Germany, does not separately exist in England. Rules of judicial and parliamentary procedure, the organisation of law courts, public offices, and the like, belong particularly to the province of Constitutional law; while Mr. Taswell-Langmead only attempted, which he did with such brilliant success, to trace the historical development of the organic structure of the English Constitution.