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Title: Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

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CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS

by

LORD MACAULAY

In Three Volumes

[Illustration: The Riverside Press logo.]

VOLUME III

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1899, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
All Rights Reserved

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES 1

LEIGH HUNT'S COMIC DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION 47

LORD HOLLAND 101

WARREN HASTINGS 114

FREDERIC THE GREAT 243

DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAME D'ARBLAY 331

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON 396

BARERE 487

THE EARL OF CHATHAM 591

INDEX TO THE ESSAYS 689

CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS
III

RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES[1]

_The Edinburgh Review_, October, 1840

It is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an excellent book
excellently translated. The original work of Professor Ranke is known
and esteemed wherever German literature is studied, and has been found
interesting even in a most inaccurate and dishonest French version. It
is, indeed, the work of a mind fitted both for minute