JEAN LOUIS DELOLME, was born at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1740, and educated for the bar. After beginning the practice of his profession, he wrote a treatise, “Examen des Trois Points des Droits,” for which he was driven into exile by the Swiss authorities. To this fortunate circumstance the world is indebted for his celebrated work on “The Constitution of England.” After leaving Switzerland he spent many years in England, earning his livelihood as a newspaper writer, and studying English institutions from the standpoint of a lawyer and philosopher, uninfluenced by the prejudice, which almost necessarily governs much of what a publicist writes of the institutions of his own country. When DeLolme had an opportunity to return to Switzerland in 1775, his poverty was such that he was obliged to accept aid from a charitable society for the expenses of his journey. His “La Constitution de l’Angleterre,” appeared first in French at Amsterdam in 1771, but an “improved” English edition followed in 1772. DeLolme wrote “A History of the Flagellants” and a number of other works, but is remembered chiefly as the author of “The Constitution of England.”