. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. lso exported toGreat Britain and the United States, and ismanufactured to a considerable extent inFrance and in the United States. Macaronihas a high percentage of starch. MACAULAY, ma kawly, Thomas Bab-IXGTON, Lord (1800-1859), an English his-torian, essayist and statesman, celebrated forthe brilliance of his prose style. He had amarvelous memory, and the literary and his-torical allusions in his writings show that inhis breadth of kno
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. lso exported toGreat Britain and the United States, and ismanufactured to a considerable extent inFrance and in the United States. Macaronihas a high percentage of starch. MACAULAY, ma kawly, Thomas Bab-IXGTON, Lord (1800-1859), an English his-torian, essayist and statesman, celebrated forthe brilliance of his prose style. He had amarvelous memory, and the literary and his-torical allusions in his writings show that inhis breadth of knowledge he hardly had arival. Macaulay was born at Rothley Tem-ple, Leicestershire. In 1818 he entered Trin-ity College, Cambridge, where he obtainedthe Chancellors medal for a poem on Pom-peii, winning it a second time for a poemon Evening. He re-ceived a fellowshipand took his M. in 1825. Be- >^fore this he began ;/10 contribute to il--Knights Quarterli/ IMagazine, in which /appeared his poemsThe Spanish Ar-mada, The Battle ofIvry and Moncon-tour, and in 1825he inaugurated his brilliant career in theEdinburgh Review, by his essay on MACAULAY Macaulay was elected to Parliament in1830 and was a most vigorous and effectivepartisan of the reform movement. Duringthe years from 1834 to 1838 he was in Indiaas a member of the Supreme Council there,and on his return he was again made a mem-ber of Parliament. In 1842 he published hisLai/s of Ancient Rome, and in 1848 appearedthe first two of the five volumes of his his-tory of England from the Accession of JamesII. This brilliant rhetorical exposition, al-though touched with partisanship and witha tendency to paradox, has attained the posi-tion of an English classic. Its popularitywhen it first appeared was phenomenal, andit is said that in America its sales exceededthose of any book except the Bible. Macau-lay was created a peer in 1857. and at hisdeath he was buried in Westminster History was unfinisheJ
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