THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II M.p George Otto Trevelyan

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...I have an easy fortune. I have finished the first two volumes of my History. Yesterday the last sheets went to America, and within a fortnight, I hope, the publication will take place in London. I am pretty well satisfied. As compared with excellence, the work is a failure: but as compared with other similar books I cannot think it so. We shall soon know what the world says. To-day I enjoyed my new liberty, after having been most severely worked during three months in finishing my History and correcting proofs. I rose at half after nine, read at breakfast Fearon"s Sketches of America, and then finished Lucian"s critique on the bad historians of his time, and felt my own withers unwrung. Ellis came to dinner at seven. I gave him a lobster curry, woodcock, and macaroni. I think that I will note dinners as honest Pepys did." 1 It must be remembered that whatever was in Macaulay"s mind maybe found in his diary. That diary was written, throughout, with the unconscious candour of a man who freely and frankly notes down remarks whichhe expects to be read by himself alone; and with the copiousness natural to one who, except where it was demanded for the purpose of literarv effect, did not willingly compress anything which he had to say. It may, therefore, be hoped that the extracts presented in these volumes possess those qualities in which, as he has himself pronounced, the special merit of a private journal lies. In a letter dated August 4, 1853, he says: "The article on the Life of Moore is spiteful. Moore, however, afforded but too good an opportunity to a malevolent assailant. His diary, it is evident to me, was written to be published, and this destroys the charm proper to diaries." "Monday, November 20.--Eead Pepys at breakfast, and then sate down... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II (M.p George Otto Trevelyan)