GREEN, J. R. A Short History of the English People. HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK, D.C.L. Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics. London: 1878. HOSTE, J. W. Johnson and His Circle. London: Jarrold & Sons. Johnson's Chief Lives of the Poets, Being those of Milton, Dry den, Swift, Addison, Pope, Gray, and Macaulay's Life of Johnson, with a Preface by Matthew Arnold, to which are appended Macaulay's and Carlyle's Essays on Boswell's Life of Johnson. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1879. Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Mrs. Piozzi, Bishop Percy, and others, together with the Diary of Dr. Campbell and extracts from that of Madame D' Arblay, newly collected and edited by Robina Napier. (Engravings and various autographs.) George Bell and Sons, London, 1884. JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Idler. In the series of British Essayists. Lives of the Poets. 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Literary Landmarks of London. VI. CHRONOLOGY OF MACAULAY'S LIFE AND 1800. Born. WORKS 1814. Sent to boarding school. 1818. Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. 1822. Graduated as B.A. 1824. Degree of M.A. Elected Fellow. First public speech. 1825. First contribution to the Edinburgh Review: essay on Milton. 1826. Called to the bar. 1828. Commissioner of Bankruptcy. 1830. Member of Parliament for Calne. First speech in Parliament. 1831. Speeches on the Reform Bill. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1833. Member of Parliament for Leeds. Essay on Horace Walpole. 1834. Essay on William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Sailed for India as legal adviser to the Supreme Council. 1837. Penal Code finished. 1838. His father died. Returned to England. Visited Italy. 1839. Elected to the Club. Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. Secretary at War. 1840. Essay on Lord Clive. 1841. Reëlected to Parliament for Edinburgh. Essay on Warren Hastings. 1842. Lays of Ancient Rome published. 1843. Essay on Madame d'Arblay. Essay on the Life and Writings of Addison. 1844. Essay on the Earl of Chatham. (The second essay on this subject, and his last contribution to the Edinburgh Review.) 1846. Paymaster-General of the Army. Defeated in Edinburgh election. 1848. First two volumes of his History of England. 1849. Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. 1852. Again elected to Parliament from Edinburgh, although not a candidate. Failing health. 1854. Life of John Bunyan. 1855. Third and fourth volumes of his History of England. (The fifth volume appeared after his death.) 1856. Resigned his seat in Parliament. Life of Samuel Johnson. Life of Oliver Goldsmith. 1857. Became Baron Macaulay of Rothley. 1859. Life of William Pitt. Died December 28. LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (December, 1856) 1. SAMUEL JOHNSON, one of the most eminent English writers of the eighteenth century, was the son of Michael Johnson, who was, at the beginning of that century, a magistrate of Lichfield, and a bookseller of great note in the midland counties. Michael's abilities and attainments seem to 5 have been considerable. He was so well acquainted with the contents of the volumes which he exposed to sale, that the country rectors of Staffordshire and Worcestershire thought him an oracle on points of learning. Between him and the clergy, indeed, there was a strong religious and political sym- 10 pathy. He was a zealous churchman, and, though he had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession, was to the last a Jacobite in heart. At his house, a house which is still pointed out to every traveller who visits Lichfield, Samuel was born on the 18th of 15 September 1709. In the child, the physical, intellectual, and moral peculiarities which afterwards distinguished the man were plainly discernible; great muscular strength accompanied by much awkwardness and many infirmities; great quickness of parts, with a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination; 20 a kind and generous heart, with a gloomy and irritable temper. He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. His parents were weak enough to believe that the royal touch was a specific |