THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 



OF 



T. BABINGTON MACAULAY. 



A new edition, complete in three volumes. 



Purchasers of the former edition in Two Volumes are 



informed that an additional number of the 



Third Volume have been printed 



to complete their copies. 



" These charming volumes are made up of contributions of 

 Mr. Macaulay to the ' Edinburgh Review' between the years 

 1825 and 1837,* with an appendix containing two beautiful 

 specimens of his poetical powers. The subjects of the present 

 essays are Milton, Machiavelli, Dryden, History and Histo- 

 rians, Hallam's Constitutional History, Southey's Colloquies 

 on Society, Lord Byron, the Pilgrim's Progress, Johnson and 

 Bosvvell, Hampden, Lord Burghley, Mirabeau and the French 

 Revolution, the War of the Succession in Spain, Walpole's 

 Letters to Sir Horace Mann, the Earl of Chatham and his 

 Times, and the Life, Character, and Philosophy of Lord Bacon. 



" Many of these subjects, it is obvious, have wider relations : 

 all are treated with extraordinary sense, learning, force, wit, 

 and eloquence. Indeed we could not name the recent work, 

 in which, within the same compass, is to be found an equal 

 amount of entertainment and instruction. We remember, 

 soon after the publication of the article upon Milton, upon 

 reading it in a retired part of Europe, where we had no means 

 of becoming acquainted with its authorship, to have remarked 

 that the Edinburgh Review had obtained some new contri- 

 butor, capable of sustaining, if not of increasing the fame of 

 its palmiest days." North American Review for October. 



" Here are three volumes of as valuable matter as are to 

 be found in the English language. Mr. Macaulay has long 

 been a contributor to the best English Reviews, and his papers 

 are remarkable for their vigour and beauty of style, their deep 

 erudition, and their completeness." New World. 



" Mr. Macaulay is without doubt the most brilliant writer at 

 present enlisted in English criticism; and his numerous con- 

 tributions to the prominent periodicals of Great Britain have 

 attained a popularity far greater than is usually vouchsafed 

 to this class of literary productions. His style is classic, re- 

 markably vigorous, and at times dignified." New Yorker. 



* The third volume contains all Mr. Macuulay's writings since 

 that time. 



