at annoyance to him. He
strove very hard to overcome it, but in vain; and he was moved to tears
upon a great many occasions, when he would have given much to be able to
control himself.

Let us quote a little more from Thackeray's tribute to him.

"All sorts of successes were easy to him. As a lad he goes down
into the arena with others, and wins all the prizes to which he has
a mind. A place in the Senate is straightway offered to the young
man. He takes his seat there, he speaks when so minded, without
party anger or intrigue, but not without party faith and a sort of
heroic enthusiasm for his cause; and speech is also a success to
him. Still he is a poet and philosopher even more than orator. . . .
Years ago there was a wretched outcry raised because he dated a
letter from Windsor Castle, where he was staying. Immortal gods!
was not this man a fit guest for any palace in the world, or a fit
companion for any man or woman in it? The place of such a natural
chief was among the first in the land."

Macaulay died, in 1860, a sudden and painless death, and lies buried in
Westminster Abbey, in the Poet's Corner, near the west wall of the South
Transept, at the feet of Addison.

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EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.

The British aristocracy has given to literature a few names which the
world will not willingly let die. But its contribution to the world's
genius has not been great in proportion to its numbers, its exceptional
opportunities for culture, and the great prominence which has naturally
been given to its achievements. From out its ranks have come few of the
great names in English literature.

Among these the name of Lord Lytton, or Bulwer, as he is more generally
known in literature, holds a prominent place. For the period of a long
life he lived in the world's eye, and the world feels a great interest
in the character of the man as well as in his writings.

His paternal ancestors had been settled in Norfolk since the Conquest.
The name of Bulwer attests the Scandinavian origin of the Norman
soldier. The great-grandfather of Edward Bulwer married the heiress of
the Earles of Heydon Hall, which became the family residence. Our hero's
father "contracted a romantic, if illicit, attachment to a young person
of great beauty, who eloped with him from a boarding-school in which she
was a teacher, and, though too haughty a man to