Gibbon

James Augustus Cotter Morison (20 April 1832 – 26 February 1888), English essayist and historian, was born in London. In 1868, he published a pamphlet entitled Irish Grievances shortly stated. 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.