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Harvard Historian Edward Channing, for one, called it a work of "almost unrivaled historical judgment." Columbia's Allan Nevins has singled out its first six chapters, plus one chapter of Macaulay, as "the best specimens of social history in English...
What are shambles? The abbreviated dictionary at hand tells me: "slaughterhouse: hence, figuratively, a place of carnage or execution." . . . You may remember Macaulay...
...what I think George Ade meant when, years ago, he slipped a bit of seasoned advice to an aspiring youngster: "If it is your intention to push your way through life with a pencil you must first forget your college English and learn how not to write like Lord Macaulay." ARNOLD GERSTELL Philadelphia...
Articles are written by experts, who get a scholar's rate of 2? a word. Included with the Britannica essays of Macaulay, Scott and Stevenson are eminent moderns: Henry Ford (Mass Production), Albert Einstein (Space-Time), Julian Sorell Huxley (Courtship of Animals), George Bernard Shaw-who accepted $68.40 for 3,420 words on Socialism...
Bulwer-Lytton was Tauchnitz's first author. Soon the library published Dickens, Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Macaulay, Thackeray, Carlyle, Trollope, George Eliot. Later it published Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy. Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Kathleen Norris were among its most popular U.S. writers. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes sold 100,000 copies...