ed by corrupt means, a book well worth reading; _Cornwallis
Correspondence_ and some other books already noted.

(12) For Indian matters:--MILL and WILSON, _History of British India_,
10 vols., 1858, vols. iii.-vi., a standard work; Sir J. F. STEPHEN,
_Story of Nuncomar_, 2 vols., 1885; Mr. G. FORREST, _Selections from
State Papers, India_, 1772-85, 3 vols., 1890, documents of first-rate
importance, well edited, with good introduction, which, perhaps,
attempts too complete a defence of Hastings; Sir A. LYALL, _Warren
Hastings_ (English Men of Action Series), 1902, a thoroughly sound and
well-considered biography; Mr. S. J. OWEN, _Selections from the
Despatches of Marquess Wellesley_, 1877, with the _Cornwallis
Correspondence_ already noted.

[Sidenote: _ON ECONOMIC PROGRESS._]

(13) For the social and economic history in chap, xiii., a general
account will be found in LECKY, _History_, vol. v., an admirable and
delightful piece of work; _Social England_, vol. v., 1896, edited by
TRAILL, papers of various merit by various authors; a new edition with
well-chosen illustrations is now (1904) published; and chapters at the
end of vols. vii. and ix. of the _Pictorial History of England_, edited
by CRAIK and MACFARLANE, 1841, 1843. Manners and customs are described
by Mr. SYDNEY, _England and the English in the Eighteenth Century_, 2
vols., 1891, and by Mr. ASHTON, whose _Old Times_, 1885, is almost
wholly composed of newspaper cuttings and caricatures, and is,
therefore, so far as it goes, a contemporary authority. Notices of the
gambling and frivolity of a portion of the upper class, some not before
printed, are given in Sir G. TREVELYAN'S _Early Life of C. J. Fox_ (see
above). An independent study should include the chronicle in the _Annual
Register, Walpole's Letters_, JESSE, _George Selwyn and his
Contemporaries_, 4 vols., 1843, and _Selwyn's Letters_, edited by Mr.
Roscoe and Miss Clergue, 1899; SMOLLETT, _Humphrey Clinker_, written in
1770; ANSTEY, _New Bath Guide_, "poetical epistles describing life at
Bath" in 1766; Miss BURNEY, _Evelina_, in 1778, and many other books. A
good introduction to the literary history of the period is given by Mr.
G. SAINTSBURY, _Short History of English Literature_, 1898. Though the
late Sir LESLIE STEPHEN in his _English Thought in the Eighteenth
Century_, 2 vols., 2nd edit., 1881, deals chiefly with the earlier part
of the century, he has much of the highest value, specially in chaps.