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Edited by MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS, Instructor, New York.

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Edited by HENRY H. BELFIELD, Chicago Manual Training School.

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Edited by CHARLES H. RAYMOND, Lawrenceville School. Scott's Lady of the Lake

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Edited by JAMES ARTHUR TUFTS, Phillips Exeter Academy.

Charles Sumner's True Grandeur of Nations.

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Edited by GEO. L. MARIS, Friends' Central School, Philadelphia.

Selected Orations and Speeches

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Edited by C. A. WHITING, University of Utah.

Several others are in preparation, and all are substantially bound in cloth.

LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN, Publishers,
BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO.

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JAMES CHALMERS, PH.D., LL.D.,

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.

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LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN.
BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO.

COPYRIGHT, 1893,

BY

LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN.

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09-27-26

PREFACE.

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OWING to the fact that two well-edited books of Macaulay's Essays have already appeared in this series, each containing information and suggestions common to all of his essays, it does not seem necessary that any part of that same matter should be repeated in this volume. A further reason for brevity in introduction is that the two essays here chosen swell the size of the book beyond that of most of the other numbers of the series.

There is one fact in particular to which the editor wishes to give the place of emphasis: THE ESSAYS COMPRISING THIS VOLUME ARE EMINENTLY LITERARY. They are the most distinctively literary of Macaulay's Essays, and are therefore best adapted to the purpose for which they have been chosen. The essays of Macaulay preceding in the series "Chatham" and "Clive" are historical and biographical, and yet are of unusual literary value. But the teacher of English literature will recognize at once the immense gains to the young student of a comparative study of Milton and Addison, the two writers who stand highest in their respective depart

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