Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Owing to the fact that two well-edited books of Macaulay's Essays have already appeared in this series, each containing information and suggestions common to all of his essays, it does not seem necessary that any part of that same matter should be repeated in this vol ume. A further reason for brevity in introduction is that the two essays here chosen swell the size of the book beyond that of most of the other numbers of the series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.