Macaulay. Prescott. Rawlinson.
*Macaulay’s England. 5 vols., 12mo, cloth, $5.00, reduced to $2.00 (40c) The same half Russia, $7.50 reduced to $3.50 (60c) Macaulay’s Essays. On Bacon, Hastings, and Pitt: Ideal Ed., cloth, 35c. (8c)
“Macaulay’s essays are remarkable for their brilliant rhetorical power, their splendid tone of coloring and their affluence of illustration. He excels in the delineation of historical characters and in the art of carrying his readers into a distant period and reproducing the past with the distinctness of the present.”—Geo. S. Hillard.
“Both his turn of mind and style of writing are peculiar, and exhibit a combination rarely if ever before witnessed in modern literature. He is deeply learned in ancient and modern lore; he is eminently dramatic and pictorial; alternately speaks poetry to the soul and pictures to the eye. His learning is prodigious; in many of his writings there are reflections, equally just and original, which were never surpassed in the philosophy of history.”—Sir Archibald Allison.