Early Responses to Hume's 'History of England'

This is the first systematic presentation of eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticisms of Hume's History. Most of the fifty-four selections appear here for the first time since their original publication, and include a new translation of the 1755 review of Hume's History from the German Gottingische Anzeigen, and the complete texts of Daniel MacQueen's Letters on Mr. Hume's History of Great Britain (1756). There are also contributions from Joseph Towers, Tobias Smollett, Adam Smith, William Enfield, Francis Jeffrey and many others.