The Warner Classics: Historians and essayists: Edward Gibbon, by W. E. H. Lecky. Thomas Carlyle, by Leslie Stephen. Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Dr. Richard Garnett. Matthew Arnold, by Prof. G. E. Woodberry. Thomas Babington Macaulay, by J. B. McMaster. Washington Irving, by E. W. Morse. William Hickling Prescott, by F. N. Thorpe