Note 390 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

For the town system of New England and its working, compare references in Lodge (p. 414), Mem. Hist. Boston, i. 454, and W. E. Foster’s Reference lists, July, 1882: to which may be added Herbert B. Adams’s Germanic Origin of the New England Towns (1882), and Edward Channing’s Town and County government in the English colonies of North America (1884),—both published in the “Johns Hopkins University studies;” Judge P. E. Aldrich in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., April, 1884; “Town Meeting,” by John Fiske, in Harper’s Magazine, Jan., 1885 (also in his American Political Ideas, N. Y., 1885); Scott’s Development of Constitutional Liberty, p. 174; Fisher’s American Political Ideas, ch. i. (1885).