Molesworth’s History of England; Miss Martineau’s History of England; Justin McCarthy’s Life of Sir Robert Peel; Alison’s History of Europe,—all of which should be read in connection with the Lives of contemporary statesmen, especially of Cobden, Bright, and Lord John Russell. The Lives of foreign statesmen shed but little light, since the public acts of Sir Robert Peel were chiefly confined to the domestic history of England.
