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[PREFATORY NOTE]

The editor explains the difference between Macaulay's Life of Johnson and Macaulay's Essay on Johnson in the Introduction, IV, p. xxviii, and gives his reason for printing only a portion of the Essay.


[CONTENTS]

Introduction:
PAGE
I.An Introduction to Macaulay[ix]
II.Macaulay and his Literary Contemporaries[xxiii]
III.The Study of Macaulay[xxv]
IV.Macaulay on Johnson[xxviii]
V.Reference Books[xxix]
VI.Chronology of Macaulay's Life and Works[xxxii]
VII.Chronology of Johnson's Life and Works[xxxiv]
Life of Samuel Johnson[1]
Selection from Macaulay's Essay on Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson[45]
Notes[77]