BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. There is so much material of interest in the study of the Speech on Conciliation and of Burke's writings and speeches in general that a complete bibliography is out of the question in this volume. The books named below are, however, the more important. Most of them are specifically referred to in the Introduction or the Notes. The most accessible American edition of Burke's Works is that in twelve volumes, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1894. The Account of the European Settlements in America is not in this edition, though it was in an earlier edition published by the same firm, and now rather hard to get. The European Settlements may now and then be bought in one of the twovolume editions published in London in the last century. There are several English editions of Burke, of which that by Bohn, 1893, in eight volumes, is on the whole the best. No edition contains Burke's contributions to the Annual Register, which are often difficult to identify. No edition contains more than a fraction of the many fragmentary reports of his speeches scattered through the Parliamentary History and other collections. Indeed, he himself prepared for press but very few speeches and left notes on but few more. His Correspondence was published at London in four volumes in 1844. The Speech on Conciliation is printed with annotations in the following editions C. A. Goodrich, Select British Eloquence, Harpers, New York; E. J. Payne, Burke's Select Works, Clarendon Press, 1892, vol. I; F. G. Selby, Burke's Speeches, Macmillan, New York, 1895; A. S. Cook, Speech on Conciliation, Longmans, New York, 1896; Henry Morley, Universal Library, London, 1892. The volume of Perry's Selections from Burke, though it does not contain the Speech on Conciliation, presents wellchosen specimens of the whole range of Burke's writing and oratory. The above-mentioned annotated editions, except that of the Universal Library, devote more or less space to an account of Burke's life and a criticism of his style. The best life, however, is that by John Morley in the English Men of Letters. Morley has also considered Burke's statesmanship in an earlier work, Edmund Burke: a Historical Study, London, 1869. A more detailed biography is that of James Prior, two volumes, London, 1854. A later and better work is Thomas MacKnight's History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, three volumes, London, 1858. The life in the Dictionary of National Biography furnishes many references and a bibliography. Several other short accounts of Burke are also valuable: those in the Annual Register for 1797 and 1798; J. R. Green's in chapter X of the History of the English People; H. T. Buckle's in volume I of his History of Civilization in Europe; Sir Joseph Napier's lecture on Burke before the Young Men's Christian Association of Dublin, in 1862; Lord Brougham's sketch in his Statesmen of the Time of George the Third; Augustine Birrell's in Obiter Dicta, Second Series, New York, 1887; F. D. Maurice's lecture on Burke in Friendship of Books, 1874; and Woodrow Wilson's essay, The Interpreter of English Liberty, in the volume Mere Literature, 1896. In the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1893, Calvin Stebbins discusses Burke's agency for the province of New York. Vivid pictures of the time, and often of Burke himself, are presented in Boswell's Life of Johnson, Horace Walpole's Letters and Memoirs, Madame D'Arblay's Diary and Letters, Jesse's George Selwyn and His Contemporaries and Memoirs of George the Third, Wraxall's Historical and Posthumous Memoirs, the Rockingham Memoirs, the Grenville Papers, Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Thackeray's Four Georges and English Humorists, and Macaulay's essays on Warren Hastings and Chatham. There is also an interesting passage on Burke in Macaulay's Essay on Bacon. Of the English historians who deal with the period of the Speech on Conciliation, Adolphus, in the History of England from the Accession to the Decease of George the Third, is prejudiced against the Americans; W. E. H. Lecky, in the History of England in the Eighteenth Century, is not an ardent admirer of republican institutions, but he is fair in his statements; J. R. Green, in History of the English People, and H. T. Buckle, in History of Civilization in Europe, are more decidedly pro-American in tone; Leslie Stephen, in the History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, treats more especially the development of political ideas. Goldwin Smith's residence in Canada has given him a more intimate knowledge of America than most Englishmen possess, and accordingly in his United States he has given perhaps the best succinct account written by an Englishman. Of the Americans Bancroft is decidedly unfair to England; E. B. Andrews, in his History of the United States, and John Fiske, in the American Revolution, are both brief and impartial. Many details which are omitted from the regular histories but which form the basis for the generalizations of history may be found in the Par liamentary History, the Journals of the American Congress, the Statutes at Large, and the Annual Register. Low and Pulling's Dictionary of English History and J. F. Jameson's Dictionary of United States History, 1492– 1894, Boston, 1894, are very convenient for reference. The attitude of Burke's contemporaries may be studied in the speeches of Chatham and of Fox, in the Letters of Junius, in the writings of Franklin, and in the innumerable political tracts of the time, such as Dr. Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny, Dean Tucker's Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and Richard Price's Civil Liberty. OF EDMUND BURKE, ESQ. ON Moving his Resolutions FOR Conciliation with the Colonies March 22, 1775 THE SECOND EDITION LONDON PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL |