[Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by George Otto Trevelyan]@TWC D-Link bookLife and Letters of Lord Macaulay CHAPTER VI 47/218
Murray's copy writers are unsparingly abused by Southey and Lockhart in the Quarterly; and it would be hard indeed if we might not in the Edinburgh strike hard at an assailant of Mackintosh. I shall now begin another article.
The subject I have not yet fixed upon; perhaps the romantic poetry of Italy, for which there is an excellent opportunity; Panizzi's reprint of Boiardo; perhaps the little volume of Burnet's Characters edited by Bishop Jebb.
This reminds me that I have to acknowledge the receipt of a box from Longman, containing this little book; and other books of much greater value, Grimm's Correspondence, Jacquemont's Letters, and several foreign works on jurisprudence.
All that you have yet sent have been excellently chosen. I will mention, while I am on this subject, a few books which I want, and which I am not likely to pick up here--Daru's Histoire de Venise; St.Real's Conjuration de Venise; Fra Paolo's works; Monstrelet's Chronicle; and Coxe's book on the Pelhams.
I should also like to have a really good edition of Lucian. My sister desires me to send you her kind regards.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|