Lecky's Irish History - I.

This article presents information on the book "A History of England in the Eighteenth Century," by William Edward Hartpole Lecky. It states that Irish parts of the book are the best done. The book is much less a narrative, telling a connected story and covering the whole of a large field, than a series of studies dealing problems in the political and social history of the century. Some of comments interposed in the book are such as one scarcely expects from the writer who has seen the facts so clearly and set them forth with such unswerving fidelity.