5 
THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
OF ZACHARY MACAULAY. 
By the VISCOUNTESS KNUTSFORD. 
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Mr. Zachary Macaulay was born in 1768, 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. Macaulay 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, 
Proressor oF EnGuisu LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF G.ascow, 
AuTHoR oF ‘STvLe,’ ‘THE EnGuisH NoveEL,’ 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. —From the Hpzlogue. 
