ing but
hostile study on _Godwin and Shelley_ ("Hours in a Library"). Professor
Santayana may be mentioned among the few critics who have realised that
Shelley thought before he sang (_Winds of Doctrine_). Incomparably the
best of all the critical essays is the little monograph by Francis
Thompson (Burns and Oates).

_POSTSCRIPT_, 1942

Since this book was written two indispensable aids to the study of
Godwin and his Circle have been published. (1) An adequate modern life
of Godwin is now available: _The Life of William Godwin_ by Ford K.
Brown (J. M. Dent & Sons). The work could hardly have been better done.
(2) Mr. Elbridge Colby has given us in two volumes a modern edition of
_The Life of Thomas Holcroft_ (Constable & Co.) by himself with
Hazlitt's continuation. Mr. Colby's scholarly notes and introduction add
greatly to its value.

A modern edition of Godwin's _Political Justice_ (Knopf, Political
Science Classics) is now available, but cannot be recommended. The
editor has abbreviated it by capricious omissions.

_The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers_ by Carl L.
Becker (Oxford University Press, also Yale) is a most readable study of
the political thought of the period. See also Professor H. J. Laski's
_The Rise of European Liberalism_ (Allen & Unwin) and _Voltaire_ by H.
N. Brailsford in this series.

INDEX

_Age of Reason_, 75

Arnold, Matthew, 184, 220

Arnot, 174

Baldwin, Edward, 172

Barbauld, Mrs., 192

Blake, Wm., 35, 66

Bright, John, 115

Burke, 15-26, 63

Burney, Fanny, 18

_Caleb Williams_, 143

Calvinism, 79

Chesterfield, Lord, 195

Clairmont, Mrs. (afterwards Godwin), 169-70

Clairmont, Jane, 169

Coleridge, S. T., 51-55, 86, 156, 173

Condorcet, 22, 23, 27, 92, 109, 110, 197

Convention, English, 44
---- Scottish, 41-43

Cooper, Thomas, 83, 84

Corresponding Society (see London)

Dundas, 40, 44

_Enquirer, The_, 145

_Essays_ (on Religion) by Wm. Godwin, 180

Fenelon, 130

_Fleetwood_, 176

Gatton, Borough of, 25

Gerrald, Joseph, 43, 88, 89

Gillray, 155

Godwin, William: as historian 22;
letter on trial of twelve Reformers, 46;
experience during Revolution, 49-51;
influence on Coleridge and Southey, 51-55;
relation to Paine, 64, 65, 71;
relation to Holcroft, 84-88;
early life, 78;
_Political Justice_, 89-141;
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