Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^have not been seen for atleast sixty years since, is something of a problem, explicable perhaps by fanciful andfatalist theory, less so by any sober demonstration of reasonand fact. Less enigmatical, though to others than serious students Historyperhaps less interesting, certainly less episodic and unconnectedwith things before and after, is the rise of the English historicalschool, which dates from our per
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^have not been seen for atleast sixty years since, is something of a problem, explicable perhaps by fanciful andfatalist theory, less so by any sober demonstration of reasonand fact. Less enigmatical, though to others than serious students Historyperhaps less interesting, certainly less episodic and unconnectedwith things before and after, is the rise of the English historicalschool, which dates from our period, and which, if generosityand want of space did not prescribe the leaving of Gibbon.(whose mighty work was half done in it) to the next, might. Photo : Walh-r ifc IIOX. KICHARD BRIXSLEY SHERIDAX,, BY J. RUSSELL, (Nutional Portrait (kdlery.) 356 AN ERA OF NEW DEPARTURES. [1742 be said to have attained its full, though far from its final, per-fection at this time. We -were late Avith our great historiansin England; but there was not, as in the other departmentof novel writing, an almost absolute absence of Elizabethan and .Jacobean times had given us some Avorthychroniclers, a splendid if imequal master of historical style inRaleigh, a scholarl}* and competent historian proper in period of the Civil Wars had, half by accident, given usthe great genius of Clarendon in historical portraiture if notin histor}. But thereafter for a considerable time there wasnothing; and we left to refugees like Rapin, or dischargedourselves, by resj^ectable but hopeless persons like Carte andHarte, the duty of recounting the great argument of Englishand other history. There would be little profi
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