in 1861,--are
well edited by the author's son, Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave, who
honorably upholds the honored name he inherits.

[E] Merivale, History of the Romans under the Empire; Vol. IV. p. 297,
note: "The civilization of barbarians, at least their material
cultivation, has been generally more advanced by instructors whose moral
superiority was less strongly marked, than where the teachers and the
taught have few common sympathies and points of contact. Thus, in our
own times, rough whalers and brutal pirates have done more to
Europeanize the natives of Polynesia than the missionaries."

[F] A History of England under the Norman Kings, etc., pp. 84, 85, and
87. Dr. Lappenberg is emphatic on the subject of the formation of the
Norman race through the junction of various races. "Rolf [Rollo] and his
companions were like those meteors which traverse the air with
incredible swiftness," he says, "and in vanishing leave behind them long
streams of fire which the eye gazes on with amazement. The Northmen who
settled in Neustria gradually became lost among the French, a mixture of
Gauls and Romans, Franks and Burgundians, West Goths and Saracens,
friends and foes, barbarians and civilized nations. Ten sorts of
language, and with them, perhaps, as many forms of government, were lost
amid this mass of peoples. French and foreigners have visited Normandy
in search of some traces of the old Scandinavian colonies, or at least
of some testimonial of their long sojourn there, and one or other
memorial characteristic of this daring people. All have admired the
prosperity of the province, to which the fertility of the soil and its
manufactures and commerce have contributed; but vainly have they sought
for the original Northmen in the present inhabitants. With the exception
of some faint resemblances, they have met with nothing Norsk."--pp. 65,
66.

[G] The History of Normandy and of England, Vol. I. pp. 704, 705.
Lanfranc, who was made Archbishop of Canterbury by the Conqueror, was a
native of Pavia, and Anselm, his successor, a native of Aosta.

[H] Rollo and his Race: or, Footsteps of the Normans, Vol. II. pp.
107-109.

[I] What Sir F. Palgrave says of the famous son of Robert Guiscard is
applicable generally to the Normans: "Bohemond was affectionate and true
to father, wife, and children, pleasant, affable, and courteous: yet
wrapped up in selfishness, possessed by insatiate ambition and almost
diabolical cruelty, proud a