Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay To give to the world compositions not intended for publi cation may be no injury to the fame of writers who, by habit. Were careless and hasty workmen; but it is far otherwise in the ease of one who made it a rule for himself to publish nothing which was not carefully planned, strenuously Ia bored, and minutely finished. Now, it is impossible to ex amine Lord Macaulay's journals and correspondence without being persuaded that the idea of their being printed, even in part, never vas present to his mind; and I should not feel myself justified in laying them before the public if it were not that their unlabored and spontaneous character adds to their biographical value all, and perhaps more than all, that it detracts from their literary merit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.