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See also:JOHNSTON, See also:ALEXANDER (1849-1888) , See also:American historian, was See also:born in See also:Brooklyn, New See also:York, on the 29th of See also:April 1849. He studied at the See also:Polytechnic See also:institute of Brooklyn, graduated at Rutgers See also:College in 187o, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1875 in New See also:Brunswick, New See also:Jersey, where he taught in the Rutgers College See also:grammar school from 1876 to 1879. He was See also:principal of the Latin school of See also:Norwalk, See also:Connecticut, in 1899-1883, and was See also:professor of See also:jurisprudence and See also:political See also:economy in the College of New Jersey (See also:Princeton University) from 1884 until his See also:death in Princeton, N.J., on the 21st of See also:July 1889. He wrote A See also:History of American Politics (1881); The See also:Genesis of a New See also:England See also:State—Connecticut (1883), in " Johns See also:Hopkins University Studies "; A History of the See also:United States for See also:Schools (1886); Connecticut (1887) in the "American Commonwealths See also:Series "; the See also:article on the history of the United States for the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, reprinted as The United States: Its History and Constitution (1887); a See also:chapter on the history of American political parties in the seventh See also:volume of See also:Winsor's Narrative and See also:Critical History of See also:America, and many articles on the history of American politics in Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political See also:Science, Political Economy, and Political History of the United States (1881-1884). These last articles, which like his other writings represent much See also:original See also:research and are excellent examples of Johnston's rare See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for terse narrative and keen See also:analysis and See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of facts, were republished in two volumes entitled American Political History 1763-7876 (1905-1906), edited by Professor J. A. Woodburn.
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