Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by SHELDON AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Levi L. Barbour 2-5-26 CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES. (Edinburgh Review, April 1832.). MIRABEAU. (Edinburgh Review, July 1832.) WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN. (Edinburgh Review, January 1833.) HORACE WALPOLE. (Edinburgh Review, October 1833.) WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. (Edinburgh Review, January 1834.) 87 75 143 194 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. (Edinburgh Review, July 1885.) 251 LORD BACON. (Edinburgh- Review, July 1837.) 336 ESSAYS. BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES.1 (Edinburgh Review, April, 1832.) THE work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when he first landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface: the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass of paper which lies before us better than by saying that it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and 1 Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable William Cecil Lord Burghley, Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived, and of the many eminent and illustrious Persons with whom he was connected; with Extracts from his Private and Official Correspondence and other Papers, now first published from the Originals. By the Reverend EDWARD NARES, D. D., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. 3 vols. 4to. London: 1828. 1832. |