English Men of Letters

This volume is a biographical narrative of Edmund Burke. Contents: Early Life and First Writings; In Ireland, Parliament, Beaconsfield; Constitutional Struggles; Rockingham Party, Paris, Election at Bristol, American War; Economical Reform, Burke in Office, Fall of His Party; Burke and His Friends; New Ministry, Warren Hastings, Burke's Public Position; French Revolution; Burke and His Party, Progress of the Revolution, Ireland, Last Years; Burke's Literary Character.