Volume X., Ends in 1835; Sir Alfred C. Lyall's _rise and Expansion of

the British Dominion in India (1894) contains a brief and masterly sketch of the subject. See also A Selection from the Despatches, Treaties and Other Papers of the Marquess Wellesley (1877), well edited by S. J. Owen; the first two series of the Wellington Dispatches, noticed under section 3; and the vast mass of information collected in Sir W. W. HUNTER'S Imperial Gazetteer of India_ (14 vols., 1885-1887).

(8) For social and economic history: Dr. W. CUNNINGHAM'S The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times, vol. iii., Laissez Faire (1903), extending from 1776 to 1850, is now the standard work. Reference has also been made to G. R. PORTER, Progress of the Nation (1847), a work abounding more in statistics than in narrative, and to Sir GEORGE NICHOLLS, History of the English Poor Law (2 vols., 1854). Nicholls took an active interest in social and economic questions from 1816 till his death in 1857. He probably understood the working of the poor-law better than any other man of that date, and the poor-law legislation of 1834 and 1838 was largely founded on his suggestions. He was one of the poor-law commissioners of 1834, and was permanent secretary to the poor-law board from 1847 to 1851. Sir G. C. LEWIS, The Government of Dependencies (1891), edited by C. P. Lucas, and LUCAS, Historical Geography of the British Colonies, vols. i.-v. (1888-1901), are of value. For literary history, SAINTSBURY'S History of Nineteenth Century Literature, 1780-1895, (1896), is an excellent guide. For educational progress at Oxford University reference may be made to the Report of H.M.'s Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State, etc., of the University and Colleges of Oxford (1852), which contains a good historical summary. The report of the similar commission appointed for Cambridge hardly touches the progress of studies, and is therefore of less value to the historical student.

FOOTNOTES:

The dates given are, as far as possible, those of the editions used by the authors of this volume.