THE BOOK TO START WITH
"Probably tho best book In English for anyone about to form a library is Macauiay '3 Essays,'' writes Mr. Robert Lynd in. the "News-Chronicle." "Macauiay may occasionally use misleading colours, but ho has an astonishing genius for exciting the appetite for facts, and making the acquisition of knowledge an entertainment. "Starting from Macauiay, the reader may set off in ono direction after another in his exploration of history and literature with ever-growing curiosity; and he may return from explorations years later with enough 1 knowledge to upset 50 per cent, of Macauiay's .judgments. But it is to Macauiay that ho will owe his power to refute Maeaulay. ' That is why Macauiay should be read by everybody —by everybody, that is, who can read him."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 19
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