text:  How long will it be ere we learn that free institutions are the Amreeta cup of nations--the greatest of all blessings or the greatest of all curses according to the race on which it is conferred! The history of the Gauls in Thierry's opinion divides itself naturally into four great periods: his brief _resume_ of the state of the nation during each of those periods is so animated that we cannot refrain from quoting his own words:-- "The first period contains the adventures of the Gaulish nations in the nomad state