_NATION._--"It is no exaggeration to say that Lord Acton's Essays
are the book of the season, and that their publication is an event.
Their author stood in the first rank of _Gelehrte_. His reading was
immense, his memory unfailing. He added to his learning a
considerable knowledge of affairs and an almost passionate moral
energy. The former kept him in touch with life, the latter with
principle; he lived in the world of men without descending to its
level; he raised and inspired. The works of such a man are of
public, it is not too much to say of European, interest."

_MORNING POST._--"Nobody can read these two volumes, so massive in
their learning, so moving in their grave and eloquent appeal,
without feeling the moral grandeur of the life of which they form
the most adequate commemoration. Only one of the papers printed in
this collection, an address upon the causes of the Franco-Prussian
War, positively sees the light for the first time, but we question
whether any one of the other essays was known to the general
reading public, or whether there are ten historical experts in the
country who had tracked Lord Acton through the many devious
periodicals in which he deposited the results of his genius and
industry. These volumes, then, to all intents and purposes form a
new book. It is to them, and not to the 'Cambridge Lectures,' that
we should look for Lord Acton's most finished literary work, for
the expression of his deepest convictions upon the most profound
problems of faith and morals, and for the most convincing proofs of
the wide span of his interests and the inexhaustible arsenal of his
knowledge. They enable us to understand the animating conception
which guided his life of arduous toil, and indicate the lines of a
historical apologetic for the Catholic Church more just, original,
and profound than any which the writers of the Ultramontane School
have offered."

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"There is so much of fine thought and brilliant
expression in these volumes, and so diverse a variety of themes,
that it is difficult to do more than indicate the treasures which
they offer to intelligent readers."

_Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d._

A LECTURE ON
THE STUDY OF HISTORY

DELIVERED AT CAMBRIDGE,
JUNE 11, 1895

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

_8vo. 10s. net._

LEC