INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH, MECHANIC ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, BOSTON EDITOR OF CARLYLE'S ESSAY ON BURNS," "REPRE-
SENTATIVE POEMS OF BURNS," ETC.
BOSTON, U.S.A.
GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
The Athenæum Press
1903
HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
042X122-
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
CHARLES LANE HANSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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.