“A brilliant sketch of the great historian, containing particulars of his youthful compositions, which are new and deeply interesting.”—Herald.
“We regard the little work before us as a very opportune publication. The author has brought together such a mass of facts, sketches, and anecdotes, illustrative of the character and mind of Lord Macaulay, that the book is very valuable as supplying, in a small compass, a faithful and vivid account of the great historian.”—Bradford Review.
“An interesting account of a man who was an ornament to our nation. Of the extraordinary capacity and availability of his memory many wonderful stories are told.”—Evangelical Repository.
“This work is well timed. Here we really have all that is known concerning the great man. The little book brings together with much dexterity and success very various and very scattered materials. We have been peculiarly interested in the details of the late illustrious Baron’s youthful productions. Never before has Wordsworth’s famous couplet, “The boy is father of the man,” received so vivid illustration. It is earnestly to be hoped that the whole of these early papers, and his inedited speeches and addresses written and spoken in the flush of his powers, and with all the wealth of illustration that so distinguished him, shall be collected. Why not at once by the writer of the present brilliant sketch? We know not who he is, but he is a man of no common powers. He has evidently, too, put his heart into his book. It thrills and throbs with reverent love towards the man. We like exceedingly his fresh, generous, glowing style; and not less his genial, gossipy way of telling the many anecdotes with which his pages sparkle.”—Advertiser.
“Valuable from the original matter and anecdotes it gives concerning Macaulay’s youthful productions.”—Leader.
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Anecdotes of the Green Room and STAGE; or Leaves from an Actor’s Note-Book, at Home and Abroad, by GEORGE VANDENHOFF.
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Rubbing the Gilt Off: a West End Book for All Readers. By JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, Author of “Under Bow Bells, a City Book for All Readers.”
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