lberforce. In no
other cemetery do so many great citizens lie within so narrow a space.
High over those venerable graves towers the stately monument of Chatham,
and from above, his effigy, graven by a cunning hand, seems still, with
eagle face and outstretched arm, to bid England be of good cheer, and to
hurl defiance at her foes. The generation which reared that memorial of
him has disappeared. The time has come when the rash and indiscriminate
judgments which his contemporaries passed on his character may be calmly
revised by history. And History, while, for the warning of vehement,
high, and daring natures, she notes his many errors, will yet
deliberately pronounce that, among the eminent men whose bones lie near
his, scarcely one has left a more stainless, and none a more splendid
name.

FOOTNOTES:

[21]

1. Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 4 vols. 8vo. London:
1840.

2. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann. 4
vols. 8vo. London: 1843-4.

[22] In the reign of Anne, the House of Lords had resolved that, under
the 23rd article of Union, no Scotch peer could he created a peer of
Great Britain. This resolution was not annulled till the year 1782.

END OF THE CRITICAL AND
HISTORICAL ESSAYS

INDEX TO THE ESSAYS

_A priori_ reasoning, defects of, i. 385.
Absolute uselessness of in political science, 394.

Abbe and Abbot, difference between, ii. 129.

Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden's, i. 231.

Academy, the, character of its doctrines, ii. 450.

Addison, Joseph, birth and education, iii. 400.
Life at Magdalen College, 401.
Knowledge of the Latin poets, 402.
Poems of, 406.
Complimented by Dryden, 408.
Drawn into political life by Charles Montague, 409.
Pensioned and sent abroad to study, 411.
Introduced to Boileau, 413.
Travels in Italy, 416.
Loses his pension, 422.
Returns to England through Germany, 423.
Writes The Campaign, 426.
Publishes his Narrative of Travels in Italy, 430.
Opera of Rosamond, 431.
Not fitted for prominence in Parliament, 433.
Conversational gifts, 436.
His timidity, 437.
His friends, 438.
Goes to Ireland as Chief Secretary, 441.
Contributes to the Tatler, 443.
His humor compared to that of Swift and Voltaire, 445.
Value of his essays in elevating literary taste, 447.
Dismissed f