The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-14
BIOGRAPHY.
Thomas BaOfn0to,s 1raoausav.

Thomas BabfmGto1 AEaoaWEdy.
This noted historian was the son of
zachery Macaulay, West India mer-
chant and wonderful philanthropist.
His grandfather was Sir John Macaulay,
q Presbyterian minister of West Scot
land. Young Macaulay was born in tho
year 1900, educated at Trinity, Cam
bridge, where he acquired q reputation
as scholar and debater, and twice won
the Chancellors medal, first, by his
poem " Pompem," second, Evening""
He was elected Fellow of Trinity and
devoted himself to literature, becoming
contributor to Knight's Quarterly
Magazine. In 1926 he made his ap-
pearance il the Edinburgh Revie,o in his
famous essay on Milton, production so
learned, enthusiastic, and brilliant that
it captivated the whole reading world,
and placed him in the first ranks of es-
sayists. In 1926 he was called to the bar
but never practiced the profession.
About this time he was elected to Par
Lament, for which he repaid his constit-
uents by setting forth their doctrine in a
manner 30 luminous, powerful and at
tractive that his adversaries were
charmed, and convinced if they were
not convicted.
In 1886 he went to India and spent
some time In the preparation of new
penal code, but was not very successfully
On his return he was reelected TO Par.
Lament. AS q statesman he was the
implicit friend of freedom, both civil and
religious. He eloquently sustained the
Roman Catholic bill for the relief of
Catholics, and III consequence was um-
seated, but five years thereafter was
reelected without effort on his part. In
194S he published the first two volumes
OF his world-renowned History of En-,
gland d"-the finest history, too, ever
written by ancient or modern writer. 1t
was received with an ESopu,-
larity which has been attained by very
few of the great novelists.
When he published in 1850 his two
last volumes they created such excite.
ment i'll Paternoster row as had never
been seen before. Shortly after he was
elected member of the French Academy
OF Moral and Political Science, and was
raised to the peerage in England under
the title of Baron Macaulay. He
died in 1859, at Holly Lodge, near Lon
don. He was man of stperlatiye tai
ent, thorough scholarship and his &C
cumulated knowledge was; prodigious.
His knowledge of modern Europa and
especially English history fronI the time
OF Henry VIII. was unsurpassed. His
style is pure, luminous and exquisitely
modulated, OF musical, while his powers
of description were such that his {" His
tory Of England might be compared to
the cartoons of Raphael in the Sistine
Chapel of Rome.
Allison said, "After review of the
chief characteristics of Lord Jeoffrey.
Mcintosh and Smith, we find Macaulay's
turn of mind and style peculiar, and ex-
hibit a combination rarely. if ever, ex-
hibited in ancient or modern literature.
Unlike Jeoffrey, he is deeply learned in
lore-ancient and modern. His mind
is richly stored with the poetry and his
tory, both Of classical and continental
literature. Unlike Mcintosh, he is emf
nently dramatic and pictorial. He al
ternately speaks poetry to the soul and
paints pictures to the eyes. Unlike,
Smith, he has omitted subjects Of party
contention and party i. interests, and.
grapples with great questions and irn-
mortal names, which will forever attract
the interest and demand the attention of
such men as Milton, Bacon and
Machiavelli. The grand characteristic
of his style is the shortness of his sem
tences. He often conveys several ideas
in one line" Ea