“ In 1878 he published a volume on Gibbon in the “Men of Letters” series, marked by sound judgment and wide reading. This he followed up in 1882 with his Macaulay in the same series. It exhibits, more clearly perhaps than any other of Morison’s works, both his merits and his defects. Macaulay’s bluff and strenuous character, his rhetorical style, his unphilosophical conception of history, were entirely out of harmony with Morison’s prepossessions. Yet in his anxiety to do justice to his subject he steeped himself in Macaulay till his style often recalls that which he is censuring. ”