work published in his lifetime, "is, perhaps, the most perfect thing he has left. Nearly all the early faults of his rhetorical manner have disappeared; there is no eloquence, no declamation, but a lofty moral impressiveness which is very touching and noble." The Life of Johnson, though marred by some of Macaulay's characteristic prejudices and exaggerations, is only second to the Pitt.

The shadows of approaching death were partly illumined by the honors which came too late for their full enjoyment. He was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, made a fellow of the Royal Society, elected a foreign member of the Institution of France, and of the academies of Utrecht, Munich, and Turin. He was made a Knight of the Prussian Order of Merit, Oxford gave him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and, in 1857, the Queen made him a lord, with the title of Baron Macaulay of Rothley. He was the first literary man to receive the last-named honor in recognition of his literary work. But the year 1859 found his health failing very rapidly - this being hastened by his melancholy anticipations of his sister Hannah's impending departure for India with her husband. Yet he still kept up his cheerfulness, and, on October 25, 1859, he wrote: "My birthday -I am fifty-nine. Well, I have had a happy life. I do not know that any one whom I have seen close has

had a happier. Some things I regret; but who is better off?" He died suddenly and peacefully at his sister's house, the evening of the 28th of December, 1859. He is buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

II. MACAULAY'S WORKS

(1) POETRY

Lines to the Memory of William Pitt, 1813.

Pompeii: Prize poem winning the Chancellor's medal, Cambridge, 1819.

A Radical War Song, 1820.

Evening: Prize poem winning the Chancellor's medal, Cambridge, 1821.

Ivry, 1824.

The Battle of Moncontour, 1824.

The Battle of Naseby, 1824.

The Cavalier's March to London, 1824.

(The last two are known as Songs of the Civil War.)

Sermon in a Churchyard, 1825.

Translation from A. V. Arnault, 1826.

Dies Iræ, 1826.

The Marriage of Tirzah and Ahirad, 1827.

The Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge, 1827.

Song: "Oh, stay, Madonna, stay!" 1827.

The Deliverance of Vienna (translated from Filicaja), 1828.

The Armada, 1832.

The Last Buccaneer, 1839.

Horatius.

The Battle of Lake Regillus.

Virginia.

The Prophecy of Capys.

(The last four are known as The Lays of Ancient Rome. They were published in 1842.)

Epitaph on a Jacobite, 1845.

Lines Written on the Night of the Thirtieth of July, 1847.

(At the close of his unsuccessful contest for Edinburgh.) Valentine: To the Hon. Mary C. Stanhope, 1851.

Paraphrase of a Passage in the Chronicle of the Monk of St. Gall, 1856.

(2) PROSE PAPERS PUBLISHED IN KNIGHT'S
"QUARTERLY MAGAZINE "

Fragments of a Roman Tale, June, 1823.

On the Royal Society of Literature, June, 1823.

Slavery in the West Indies, June, 1823.

Scenes from the Athenian Revels, January, 1824.

Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers: No. 1, Dante,

January, 1824.

Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers: No. 2, Petrarch,

April, 1824.

Some Account of the Great Lawsuit between the Parishes of St.

Denis and St. George in the Water, April, 1824.

A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton touching the Great Civil War, August, 1824.

On the Athenian Orators, August, 1824.

A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic, to be entitled "The Wellingtoniad," and to be published in 2824, November, 1824.

On Mitford's History of Greece, November, 1824.

(3) ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN THE "EDINBURGH REVIEW"

Milton, August, 1825.

The London University, January, 1826.

The Social and Industrial Capacities of Negroes, March, 1827. Machiavelli, March, 1827.

The Present Administration, June, 1827.

John Dryden, January, 1828.

History, May, 1828.

Hallam's Constitutional History, September, 1828.

Mill's Essay on Government, March, 1829.

The Westminster Reviewer's Defence of Mill, June, 1829.

The Utilitarian Theory of Government, October, 1829.
Southey's Colloquies on Society, January, 1830.

Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems, April, 1830.

Sadler's Law of Population, July, 1830.

Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, December, 1830.

Civil Disabilities of the Jews, January, 1831.

Sadler's Refutation Refuted, January, 1831.

Moore's Life of Lord Byron, June, 1831.

Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, September, 1831. Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden, December, 1831. Burleigh and His Times, April, 1832.

Mirabeau, July, 1832.

Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in Spain, January, 1833. Horace Walpole, October, 1833.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, January, 1834.

Sir James Mackintosh, July, 1835.

Lord Bacon, July, 1837.

Sir William Temple, October, 1838.

Gladstone on Church and State, April, 1839.

Lord Clive, January, 1840.

Von Ranke's History of the Popes, October, 1840.

Leigh Hunt's Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, January,

1841.

Lord Holland, July, 1841.

Warren Hastings, October, 1841.

Frederick the Great, April, 1842.

Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, January, 1843.

The Life and Writings of Addison, July, 1843.

Barère's Memoirs, April, 1844.

The Earl of Chatham, October, 1844.

(4) BIOGRAPHIES PUBLISHED IN THE

"ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA"

Francis Atterbury, December, 1853.

John Bunyan, May, 1854.

Oliver Goldsmith, February, 1856.