Edmund Burke

"Each of the essays in this volume concerns itself with some particular problem in Burke's biography; it is to be hoped that each will justify itself by the light it casts upon that problem. The group of essays taken collectively, however, tries to do slightly more than make random additions to our information. It attempts to focus attention upon a single central question: the question of why Burke is so inaccessible at the present time"--Pref. [i].