Edmund Burke. Volume II

With this fine volume, Professor Lock brings to a conclusion his distinguished biography of one of the most important political thinkers of eighteenth-century Europe. The achievement is all the more impressive in view of the relatively short space of time since the publication of Volume I in 1998 (rev. ante, cxv [2000], 911-13). Perhaps unavoidably, there is in the first chapter some recapitulation of material in Volume I, as the context to Burke's political discomfiture after the overthrow of the Fox-North coalition and the general election of 1784 requires elucidation. The central themes of Burke's later life—the impeachment of Warren Hastings, the tribulations of the Whig opposition to Pitt's ministry, the attacks upon the Irish Protestant ascendancy, the response to the French Revolution, and the ideological dimensions of the war of the 1790s—necessarily impose themselves upon the biographer. But Lock skilfully interweaves the times with the life, and does

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