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." In this fourth volume, Paul continues the narrative in the year 1875 with "The Storm in the East"—or the Andrassy Note—and covers such events as the Irish Revolution; he closes with a chapter on the church and state in England into the mid 1880s.