BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES. (Edinburgh Review, April PACE 1 75 L WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN. (Edinburgh Re- view, January 1833.). ESSAYS. BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES.1 (Edinburgh Review, April, 1832.) THE work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when he first landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface: the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass of paper which lies before us better than by saying that it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and 1 Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable Wil liam Cecil Lord Burghley, Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edwara the Sixth, and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived, ana of the many eminent and illustrious Persons with whom he was connected; with Extracts from his Private and Official Correspondence and other Papers, now first published from the Originals. By the Reverend EDWARD NARES, D. D., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. 8 vols. 4to. London: 1828. 1832. |