This five-volume history of modern England was published between 1904 and 1906. Regarded as a masterwork, The New York Times said of the series, "[Paul's] work is brilliant, epigrammatic, interesting." Volume three starts in 1865 with the new government of the Russell-Gladstone Ministry, discusses the churches of Ireland and England and the settlement with America in 1871, the book finishes with a chapter discussing intellectual and social progress into the 1870s.