Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
The third volume of Thomas Babington Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays collects the long reviews he wrote for the Edinburgh Review in the 1840s, in the edition published by Houghton Mifflin in 1899. They include his essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, Leigh Hunt's edition of the Restoration comic dramatists, Lord Holland, Warren Hastings, Frederic the Great, the diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, the life and writings of Addison, the French revolutionary Barère, and the Earl of Chatham. Each begins as a book review and becomes a self-contained historical portrait, written in the confident, balanced style that made Macaulay one of the most widely read prose writers of his century. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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