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The Expansion of England 359 old Indian servant, who had access to the Company's records as well as to his own large collections. Mill, History of British India, 10 vols., 1858. A full account, but must be used with care. Strachey, Hastings and the Rohilla War, removes many miscon- ceptions of Hastings' work in India. Hunter, The Indiatt Empire, its History, People, and Products. Historical and descriptive. Ilbert, The Government of India, 1898. Digest of statute law, with valuable historical introduction. Stanhope, History of England frotn ijoi to iy/j, 2 vols., 5th ed., Domestic 1889; History of England from 1713 to 1783, 7 vols., 5th ed., 1858. Dry history, and detailed, dealing especially with political and military affairs. The history of the century will also be sought in the lives of the leading men: Sichel, Bolingbroke, 2 vols., 1901-1903 ; Cox, life of Walpole, 3 vols., 1798; Green, life of Chatham; Stanhope, Life of Pitt, 4 vols., 1862. The works of Bolingbroke, Chatham, Fox, and Burke furnish invaluable materials. The travels of Defoe and Arthur Young are excellent contemporary descriptions of England. For full topical bibliographies, see Traill, Social England, Vol. V, pp. 169-17 1, 364-365, 512-514, 626-627.