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| | §36. John Hill Burton. II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | John Hill Burtons History of Scotland, from 1688 to 1745, of which the first portion appeared in 1853, was enlarged by successive additions of earlier periods, and, after Tytlers death, was, in 1870, finally published as extending from Agricola to the last Jacobite rising. |
 | | His History of Scotland justified his appointment as Scottish historiographer-royal; but, although the fruit of long and unwearying research, it is ill-arranged and loose in composition, and only held the field because of the absence of a competitor in command of the same abundance of material. |
 | | Burtons History of the Reign of Queen Anne (1880), though containing curious matter, is as little satisfactory a piece of work as ever came from a historians hands; but it was the last larger effort of a long and laborious life. |
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