Excerpt from Studies in History From a number of essays written at various times and on various subjects I have brought these together in a volume because it seemed to me that they might be of some interest to students and lovers of our his tory. With one exception they all bear directly on the history of the United States, and the group relat ing to certain Federalist leaders and their contempo raries forms a closely connected series of biographical studies in the history of that famous party. My thanks are due to the editor of the North American Review and to the editor of the Magazine of Amer ican History for permission to use two articles which originally appeared in those periodicals and which are reprinted in this volume in a much extended form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.