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BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS ON MACAULAY

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 2 vols. G. Otto
Trevelyan.

Macaulay. English Men of Letters Series. J. Cotter Morison.
Macaulay. Whipple's Essays and Reviews, Vol. 1.
Macaulay. Matthew Arnold's Mixed Essays.

Macaulay. Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature.
Macaulay. Gladstone's Gleanings of Past Years.

Bagehot's Estimate of Some Englishmen and

Macaulay.
Scotchmen.

Macaulay. McCarthy's Short History of Our Own Times.
Macaulay. Wilson's Essays, Critical and Imaginative.
Macaulay. Clark's Study of English Prose Writing.

BOOKS ON INDIA

A History of British Empire. Sir Wm. W. Hunter. A VicePresident of the Royal Asiatic Society.

A Brief History of the Indian Peoples. Sir Wm. W. Hunter. The arrangement is on a system that makes the book If only one book on India

a clear, succinct account.

can be bought, I should advise the purchase of this one. Oxford, Clarendon Press.

Epochs of Indian History Series.

Ancient History (2000 B.C.-800 A.D.). Romesh Chunder
Dutt, C. I. E.

The Muhammadans. J. D. Rees, Madras Civil Service.
The Mahrattas. K. T. Telang, Judge of the High Court,

Bombay.

History of British Empire, 10 Vols. Mill and Wilson.

Rise of the British Power in the East. Hon. Montstuart Elphinstone. A full history to the battle of Panipat, 1765.

The Story of the Empire Series.

The Rise of the Empire. Sir Walter Besant.

The Story of India. Demetrius C. Boulger.

How the British won India. W. Plimblett. This book is in popular reading style.

In India. André Chevrillon. (Henry Holt and Co.) A fascinating book of travels in India.

History of the Indian Mutiny. T. Rice Holmes. (Good maps.) On the Face of the Waters. Mrs. Flora Annie Steele. A novel that tells the story of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Mrs.

Steele was a teacher in the Punjab for twenty years.

Sacred Books of the East. Max Müller.

Buddhism. Professor Rhys Davids.

History of the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan. Stanley Lane

Poole.

Out of India. Rudyard Kipling.

From Sea to Sea. Rudyard Kipling.

Soldiers Three. Rudyard Kipling.

Hastings and the Rohilla War. Sir John Strachey.

Story of Nuncomar and Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen.

Rulers of India Series.

Lord Clive.

Dupleix.

Warren Hastings.

(Clarendon Press.)

Sir John (Lord) Lawrence.

India Revisited. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Forty-one Years in India. Frederick Sleigh Roberts.
Nabob of Arcot's Debts. Edmund Burke's Works.

Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill. Edmund Burke's Works.

A SUGGESTED METHOD OF STUDY

FIRST, read rapidly the India and the British in India in the Introduction and glance at the map when names of places occur. Second, read the essay through as one would a story, simply for the story; afterward, it may be studied as a biography and an essay.

Macaulay has allowed the periods of Hastings' life to govern the divisions of the essay. These parts are readily seen on a second reading; and form the main sections into which the outline falls. Take up the first paragraphs and examine them to see whether they belong under the first division or go to form an introduction to the whole essay. As the introduction and the conclusion are considered the most difficult parts of writing to the young essayist it may be well to notice how simply and naturally Macaulay begins and ends his essays.

After the introduction is examined, each part may be taken up as a unit. Find what the author proposed to tell in each division and discuss his method of telling it by settling definitely the function of each paragraph in carrying on the story.

While studying the purpose of the author, his style of expression may be studied also; but the more natural and interesting method seems to be to study the whole essay, division by division, to get

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at the author's mind, then to return for comment on the devices he used in presenting his subject. It is impossible to read the essay twice without noticing his wealth of words and his exact use of them; and without recognizing the value of his figures, allusions, balanced structures, climaxes, repetitions, and the many other arts used to make his meaning clear and his work inviting. So the passages best adapted to intensive study will be forechosen.

Those who have written on Macaulay's style have given to us a variety of verdicts. Critics say of his style that it is pointed, epigrammatic, rapíd, clear, harsh, vigorous, animated, simple, concrete, picturesque. They say he is fond of balanced structure, repetition, climax, the short sentence, enumeration of particulars, antithesis; that he has great erudition, splendor of imagery, the power of selection that seizes upon what is striking, the art of persuasion, taste, melody, harmony, pathos. They say of him, too, that he is a master of the mechanical art of putting words together; that is, of clear sentence structure and logical paragraph building. Trying to prove or disprove the justness of these various estimates is an interesting and profitable way to form one's own opinion.

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