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Blackwood's Magazine T HE LEADING English Magazine for the home-clean, healthful, It is a Magazine for the home and the family. All tastes will find the THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, APRIL, 1907.1 No. CCCCXX. ART. I.-LORD ACTON'S LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY. Lectures on Modern History. By the late Right Hon. JOHN EDWARD EMERICH, first BARON ACTON, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. Edited, with an Introduction, by JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS and REGINALD VERE LAURENCE. 8vo. London: Macmillan & Co., 1906. IN his recently published Studies in Biography,' Sir Spencer Walpole tells us that he has twice been present when some highly competent critics attempted to select the six greatest historians of the world. With little or no argument, they named five: Thucydides, Herodotus, Tacitus, Livy, and Gibbon; but on each occasion there were differences of opinion as to the sixth. We are not here called on to discuss the judgement of these critics as to the first five; but the Introduction to the volume of Lord Acton's Lectures leaves us in no doubt as to the name with which its editors would have filled the place left vacant. It is, indeed, as a professor rather than as an historian that they assert Lord Acton's extraordinary merit; but, as the historian is included in the professor, the greatness' and the 'unchallenged pre-eminence of the one must be equally part of the other. They quote with approval, and make their own, the opinion of a still younger man who wrote three years ago: 'There was a magnetic quality in the tones of his voice, and at light in his eye, that compelled obedience from the mind. Never before had a young man come into the presence of such intensity of conviction as was shown by every word Lord Acton spoke. It took possession of the whole being, and seemed to enfold it in its own burning flame. And the fires below on which it fed were, at VOL. CCV. NO. CCCCXX. 'All rights reserved. T least for those present, immeasurable. More than all else, it was perhaps this conviction that gave to Lord Acton's Lectures their amazing force and vivacity. He pronounced each sentence as if he were feeling it, poising it lightly, and uttering it with measured deliberation. His feeling passed to the audience, which sat enthralled. It was in truth an emotional performance of the highest order, his lecture; a wonderful work of art, such as in all likelihood will never again be witnessed.' As originally written, a burst of affectionate enthusiasm while the sense of personal loss was still fresh, this tribute was graceful and becoming; but now, repeated as-more or less—an advertisement for the book, it has a disagreeable resemblance to the blatant puffs so familiar to us on the bookstalls. Mr. Figgis and Mr. Laurence are both historical students of known merit, and their judgement would rightly be accepted as carrying very considerable weight; but their approval of Acton's work is implied by their undertaking to edit it, and might have been so left; it ought not to have been thrust on us. They would, in fact, have better performed their task if they had dwelt on the patent fact that the manuscript which they have now produced is not the text of Acton's lectures, as the reader is led to suppose, but only very full notes. That this is so is proved by many considerations, and, primarily, by the simple arithmetical fact that, of the lectures as here printed, some scarcely reach 3,000 words, and on the average they do not reach 5,000; whereas a lecture written at length ranges between 7,000 and 8,000. Quite independent of this, it is impossible to avoid noticing the frequent occurrence of disjointed words and phrasesclearly left to be expanded or commented on in the delivery. It was surely the duty of the editors-one, at least, of whom appears to have heard the lectures-to add these expansions or comments in the form of notes. As it is, without any guide, the reader is left to wonder at the possible meaning which attaches to such a cryptic sentence as- Erasmus Rogers was born at Rotterdam,' which, as it stands, can only refer to some unknown Rogers baptised Erasmus ; and so it appears in the Index. But the character-sketch of this native of Rotterdam is clearly that of Erasmus; and if-in the darkness in which we are left we are permitted to guess, we would suggest that the name 'Rogers' was probably not written in simple sequence, as it has been printed, but in the margin, or interlined, or inclosed in brackets, merely as a reminder to draw a parallel or to point out a comparison between Erasmus and John Rogers, the protomartyr of the Marian persecution. It is, indeed, true that the resemblance ne saute pas aux yeux-is not exactly |