Select Essays of Macaulay
This selection comprises the essays on Milton, Bunyan, Johnson, Goldsmith, and Madame D’Arblay, thus giving illustrations both of Macaulay’s earlier and of his later style. The subjects of the essays are such as to bring them into close relation with the study of English Literature.
The notes are intended to help the pupil to help himself. When an allusion is not easily understood, a note briefly explains it, or at least indicates where an explanation may be found. In other cases the pupil is expected to rely on his own efforts, and on such assistance as his teacher may think it wise to give.