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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 25, 13 January 1877, Page 3

The literary excellence of Professor Heam's well-known " Government of England "has, says the* "Australasian," recently met with a highly flattering "recognition m eminent' quarters at Borne.. Mr Herbert Spencer, m his-great work on " Descriptive Sociology," has brought together^. ;the evidence upon which v he relies to explain the theory of the structure, of human ■ according to the\ law'of evolution;" and m that portion of his convplicated work which relates'^ to the progressive growth' of the : legal and parliamentary systems of the Mother Country, he pays , Professo- Hearn the high compliment of adopting his book as a leading authority/ remark, too, with pleasure, that the work of another author resident m the colony," "The Early arid Middled ges of:Englabd, J ' by Mr O.H. Pearson, has-been freely drawn upon. by Mr Spencer, to portray 'tlie character of" the. national institutions,,, as -they existed m. Britain during the Eoiiian and early Saxon periods.-