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105 THE LONGMAN FAMILY. 105 Review nearly twenty years from the date of his first contributions ; receiving latterly, we believe, 100 as a minimum price for an article. A collective edition of these essays was published in America ; and within five years sixty thousand volumes were sold, and, as many of these were imported into England, Macaulay autho- rised the proprietors of the Review to issue an English edition, which certainly proved the most remunera- tive collection of essays ever published in this or any other country. The English edition contains twenty- seven essays, in some editions twenty-six. The Phila- delphia edition contains eleven additional essays.* These essays were all very excellent, but Macaulay's admirers regretted with Tom Moore, " that his great powers should not be concentrated upon one great work, instead of being scattered in Sibyl's leaves," and great was the satisfaction in 1841, when it was known that he was engaged upon a History of England, and the publication of the work was looked forward to with the greatest eagerness ; and in 1849 the first two volumes appeared. Success was immediate " Within six months," says the Edinburgh Review, " the book has run through five editions, involving an issue of II. III. IV. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. 'OnDryden." (E. R., 1828.) 'History." (E. R. t 1828.) 'Mirabeau." (E. R. t 1832.) 'Cowley and Milton." ' Mitford's Greece." ' Athenian Orator." ' Barere's Memoirs." 'Mill's Essay on Government." (E. R., 1829.) 'Bentham's Defence of Mill." (E. R., 1829.) ' Utilitarian Theory of Government." (E. A'., 1829.) 'Charles Churchill." Many of these may be found in the volume of Miscellanies published by Longmans. It has been denied that No. XI. is by Macaulay at alK 7
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