The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
Macaulay's Personnel.

In ''The Life and Letters of Lord Ma
caulay,' by his nephew, G. O. Trevel-
yam, M. P, the author tells us that Ma
caulay's outward man was never better
described than in two sentences of
Praed's introduction to Knights Quar-
terly Magazine: ''There came up a
short manly figure, marvellously up
right, with a bad neck-cloth and one
hand in his waistcoat. Of regular
| beauty he had little to boast; but in
faces where there is an expression of
great power, or of great good humour,
or of both, you do not regret it's alb
sence.' ''This picture, Mr.. Trevel-
yam adds, ''in which every touch is
correct, tells all that there is to be
told. He had a massive head and feat.
ures of 4 powerful and rugged cast,
but so constantly lighted up by every
joyful and ennobling emotion that it
mattered little if, when absolutely
quiescent, his face was rather homely
than handsome. While conversing at
table no one thought him otherwise
than good looking, but when he rose
he was seen to be short and stout in
igure.' ''At Holland House the other
day. writes his sister Margaret, in
September, 1881, "Tom met Lady
Lyndhurst for the first time. She said
to him, Mr.. Macaulay, you are so diff
ferent to what expected. 1 thought
you were dark and thin, but you are
fair, and really, Mr.. Macaulay, you are
fat. y lie at all times sat and stood
straight, full, and square, and in
this respect Woolner, in the fine statue
at Cambridge, has missed what was
undoubtedly the most marked fact in
his personal appearance. He dressed
badly, but not cheaply. His clothes
though ill put on, were good, and his
wardrobe was always enormously over
stocked. Later in life he INDUCED
himself in an apparently inexhaustible
succession of handsome embroidered
waistcoats, which he used to regard
with much complacency.
He was unhandy to degree quite
unexampled in the experience of all
who knew him. When in the open
air he wore perfectly new dark kid
gloves, into the fingers of which he
never succeeded in inserting his own
more than half way. After he had
sailed for India there were found in
his chambers between fifty and sixty
strops, hacked into strips aud splinters,
and razors without beginning or end.
About the same period he hurt his
hand, and was reduced to send for a
barber. After the operation he asked
what was to pay. ooh: sir,'' said the
man, "whatever you usually give the
person who shaves you.'' SIN that
| case, said Macaulay, Il should give
you great cash on each Cheek
Macaulay, we are further told by his
biographer. twas utterly destitute of
bodily accomplishments, and he viewed
his deficiencies with supreme indiffer-
ence. He could neither swim, nor
| row. nor drive. nor skate, nor shoot.
He seldom crossed a saddles and never
willingly. When in attendance at
Windsor, as a cabinet minister, he was
/ informed that a horse was at his dis
| posal. If Her Majesty wishes to see
| me ride. he said, SHE must order out
an elephant The only exercise in
which he can be said to have excelled
was that Of threading crowded streets
with his eyes fixed upon book. He
might have been in such thoroughfares
us Oxford street and Cheapside walk
| ing as IaSC as other people walked, and
reading great deal faster than any
body else cold read. AS a pedestrian
he was indeed above the average.
| Till he passed fifty, he thought moth
ing of going on foot from the Albany
to Chaplain, and from Chaplain on to
! Greenwich, and, while still in the
prime of life, he was forever on his
feet indoors as well as OUT