. 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 . ste of the time, Bernard Andre compares his labours to thoseof Hcrcidcs. Edward IV. and Richard III. answered to theNcmean lion and the bryiuanfhian boar; the factions of theRoses to the Hydra, and -lolni di la Iole to the Arcadianstag. Jlargaret of I!urgundy corresjionds to the Amazons; theScots king to the Cretan bull, and Martin Swart, by someviolence of metaphor, to the horses of Diomcdes. His Stym-phal
. 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 . ste of the time, Bernard Andre compares his labours to thoseof Hcrcidcs. Edward IV. and Richard III. answered to theNcmean lion and the bryiuanfhian boar; the factions of theRoses to the Hydra, and -lolni di la Iole to the Arcadianstag. Jlargaret of I!urgundy corresjionds to the Amazons; theScots king to the Cretan bull, and Martin Swart, by someviolence of metaphor, to the horses of Diomcdes. His Stym-phalian birds are lawless subjects : his throe-headid Cervon thepower of Burgundy under Maximilian, Philip, and Margaret ; his THE RULE OF HEmiY VTI. GOl 1485-1509] Cacus hiding iu a cave, is Pcrkin Warbcck in Ireland : and tlioHesperides apples, the golden fleurs-de-lis of France. He was truly, as Bacon says, ever in strife, but ever comingout victorious. His history is apt to bo overshadowed by thetreniendous issues of the next four It has even l)eencalled dull. On the contrary, it foi-ms a varied and Its chief defect is the extraordinary lack of actual con-. Vn. C^IS. Key IS C. xviii). temporary evidence. The Parliamentary records are bald andbrief; the State papers, so full mider Henry MIL, are as yetmeagre. The only historians of the time are two foreigners: andof these, Polydore Vergil did not actually write till somewhatlater. Andre has the empty copiousness of a panegyrist. 11mson several grounds, the history of the reign tends to resolveitself into a biography. At the sami> time, it is peculiarlyexposed to the modern fault of reading history backwards. Thedanger is of antedating effects. To the men then living, !io A Time ofBegin-nings, and of Contrasts. The King. COL> rilJ-: VEGINNINGS OF MODERN EXGLAND. II485 1509 sliarp line inrlicated a new era. They were slow to realise eventhat the Wars of the Roses were over. We are apt, on t
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