LORD ACTON
LL.D., D.C.L.
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1911
RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED,
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S. E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
_First Edition, October, 1895.
Second Edition, January, 1896.
Reprinted, 1905, 1911._