THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 OF ZACHARY MACAULAY. 



By the VISCOUNTESS KNUTSFORD. 



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Mr. Zachary ]\Iacaulay was born in 176S, and lived seventy years, 

 devoting the whole of his long career to the public good. He was one 

 of the small band of indomitable workers whose exertions secured the 

 abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, and the influence 

 even of Wilberforce was not more potent in the advocacy of this great 

 reform. As a young man Mr. Macaulay spent several years in Sierra 

 Leone ; he was Governor of the Colony during the most critical period 

 of the long French war, and his journals afford equally interesting 

 evidence of the internal difficulties in those early settlements on the 

 African coast, and of their constant alarms from the French privateers 

 and men-of-war. When Mr. I^Iacaulay returned to England in 1799, 

 his intimate knowledge of the slave trade in all its horrors made him 

 the mainstay of the agitation for Abolition. After years of disappoint- 

 ment, he was rewarded by seeing the famous Act of Emancipation 

 passed, and with this the chief work of a noble life was finished. 

 Mr. Macaulay's correspondence was singularly full and varied, and 

 large selections from it are given in the present Memoir. It is hoped 

 that the volume may help to perpetuate the memory of a distinguished 

 man, whose fame has perhaps to some extent been eclipsed by that of 

 his even more illustrious son, Lord Macaulay. 



MILTON. 



By WALTER RALEIGH, 



Professor of English Literature in the University of Glasgow, 

 Author of 'Style,' 'The English Novel,' etc. 



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Contents, 

 Introduction. — I. John Milton. — II. The Prose Works. — III. Paradise 

 Lost : the Scheme. — IV. Paradise Lost : the Actors. The Later 

 Poems.— V. The Style of Milton : Metre and Diction.— VI. The Style 

 of Milton and its Influence on English Poetry. — Epilogue. 



' The writer has this advantage at least over the conqueror and legislator, that he 

 has bequeathed to us, not maps nor laws, but poems whose beauty, like the world's 

 unwithered countenance, is bright as at the day of creation.' — Front the Epilogue. 



