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About the author: Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800 - 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. Macaulay's political writings are famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history. During the 1840s, Macaulay undertook his most famous work, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, publishing the first two volumes in 1848. The third and fourth volumes, bringing the history to the Peace of Ryswick, were published in 1855. At his death in 1859 he was working on the fifth volume. This, bringing the History down to the death of William III, was prepared for publication by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, after his death. CONTENTS: Volume I: Milton, Edinburgh Review. No. LXXXIV. Machiavelli, Edinburgh Review. No. XC. Dryden, Edinburgh Review. No. XCIII. History, Edinburgh Review. No. XCIV. Hallam's Constitutional History, Edinburgh Review. No. XCV Southey's Colloquies on Society, Ediburgh Review No. C Moore's Life of Lord Byron, Edinburgh Review No. CVI Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, Edinburgh Review CVIII Appendix Volume II: Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life or Johnson, Edinburgh Review. Lord Nugent's Memorials or Hampden, Edinburgh Review. Nares's Memoirs of Lord Burghley, Edinburgh Review. Dumont's Recollections of Mirabeau, Edinburgh Review. Lord Mahon's War of the Succession, Edinburgh Review. Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, Edinburgh Review. Thackeray's History of the Earl of Chatham, Edinburgh Review. Lord Bacon, Edinburgh Review Volume III: Mackintosh's History of the Revolution in England, in 1688, Edinburgh Review. Sir John Malcolm's Life of Lord Clive, Edinburgh Review. Life and Writings of Sir William Temple, Edinburgb Review. Church and State, Edinburgh Review. Ranke's History of the Popes, Edinburgh Review. Cowley and Milton On Mitford's History of Greece On the Athenian Orators Volume IV: Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, Edinburgh Review. The late Lord Holland, Edinburgh Review. Warren Hastings, Edinburgh Review. Frederic the Great, Edinburgh Review. Lays of Ancient Rome - Preface - Horatius - The Battle of the Lake Regillus - Virginia - The Prophecy of Capys Volume V: Madame D'Arblay, Edinburgh Review. Life and Writings of Addison, Edinburgh Review. Barere's Memoirs, Edinburgh Review Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems, Edinburgh Review. Civil Disabilities of the Jews Mill's Essay on Government, Edinburgh Review. Bentham's Defence of Mill, Edinburgh Review. Utilitarian Theory of Government, Edinburgh Review. The Earl of Chatham, Edinburgh Review. Speech on his Installation as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow Speech on retiring from Political Life Volume VI: Francis Atterbury - John Bunyan - Oliver Goldsmith - Samuel Johnson - James I - Charles I - Archbishop Laud - Charles II - The Earl of Clarendon - Louis XIV - The Cabal - Thomas Osborn, Earl of Danby - Sir William Temple - George Savile, Viscount Halifax - Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland - The Duke of Monmouth - Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester - Sidney Godolphin - Francis North, Lord Guildford - Judge Jeffreys - The Last Days of Jeffreys - Richard Baxter - William Penn - John Locke - Archibald, Earl of Argyle - Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnel - Catharine Sedley - William III, Mary II, and Bishop Burnet - John Dryden - The Duchess of Marlborough - Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford - Charles Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury - Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset - William Williams, Solicitor General - Henry Sidney, Brother of Algernon - Schomberg - John, Lord Lovelace - Antonine, Count of Lauzun - The First Ministry of William III - Unpopularity of William III - Popularity of Mary II - Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury - The Count of Avaux - Cruelty of Rosen at the Siege of Londonderry - Sir James Dalrymple - Lord Melville - Carstairs - The Marquess of Ruvigny - The Duke of Schomberg - Admiral Torrington. - Avarice of Marlborough - Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells - Charles Leslie - Dr. William Sherlock - George Hicks - Jeremy Collier - Henry Dodwell - Kettlewell and Fitzwilliam - Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury. - Aldrich and Jane - Edmund Ludlow - Sir Robert Sawyer - Caermarthen - Sir John Lowther - Sir John Trevor - The Princess of Denmark (Queen Anne) and her Favourites - George Fox - William Fuller - John, Earl of Breadalbane - Robert Young - Grandval - John Bart - James Whitney - Anne Bracegirdle and Lord Mohun - Charles Blount - Dean Swift - The Lord Keeper Somers - Charles Earl of Middleton - William III at the Battle of Landen - William Anderton - Charles Montague - Thomas Wharton - Robert Hasley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer - Paul Foley - Elizabeth Villiers - Death of Mary II - Policy of Marlborough after the Death of Mary - Robert Charnock and his Accomplices - Marshall, the Duke of Villeroy