Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

by Sir George Otto Trevelyan




VOLUME I



PREFACE

TO

THE SECOND EDITION.

WHEN publishing the Second Edition of Lord MACAULAY'S Life and
Letters, I may be permitted to say that no pains were spared in
order that the First Edition should be as complete as possible.
But, in the course of the last nine months, I have come into
possession of a certain quantity of supplementary matter, which
the appearance of the book has elicited from various quarters.
Stray letters have been hunted up. Half-forgotten anecdotes have
been recalled. Floating reminiscences have been reduced to
shape;--in one case, as will be seen from the extracts from Sir
William Stirling Maxwell's letter, by no unskilful hand. I should
have been tempted to draw more largely upon these new resources,
if it had not been for the examples, which literary history only
too copiously affords, of the risk that attends any attempt to