Excerpt from A New Light on Lord Macaulay There is not much of the element of tragedy to be found in Macaulay's life, and there is therefore but little in his career which furnishes inspiration for romance. His life was exceedingly simple and unostentatious. So much is this a fact that his biographers have had im pressed upon them the spirit of simpli city to a degree that is not only surpris ing, but unfortunate. Not one of the countless biographies, which record the incidents of his career, has risen much above the limits of mediocrity, and not one of them can be regarded as having secured an established place in litera ture. The Life by Morison in the English Men of Letters Series is no bet ter in this respect than the others. The lengthy and official account of his career was written by his nephew, Trevelyan, and while it is a readable and interesting narrative, it cannot pretend to rank with Boswell's Life of Johnson, with Thack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.