ARTICLE 1.-MACAULAY'S ESSAYS.
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays. By LORD MACAULAY. With a Memoir and Index. Six volumes. New-York: Sheldon & Co.'
The last two years have been fertile in the deaths of distinguished men. Science, genius, reputation, have seemed specially obnoxious to the shafts of the great destroyer, and their gifted children have passed, in rapid succession, from the sphere of their earthly brilliancy and triumphs to
"The dread unknown the night beyond the tomb."
Among the distinguished men who, within that period, have finished their earthly career, and had set upon their destinies and their fame the seal of immortality, we doubt if any other has filled so conspicuous a place, or exerted so wide-we will not say so potent-an influence, as the eminent man whose name graces the head of our article. Few whose literary recollection runs back over the last thirty-five years, but will recall the sensation created by the appearance of an article in the Edinburgh Review, on the poetical and political character of the poet-statesman, whose sanctified genius shed its lustre over the stormy times of the Great Rebellion. The Essay on Milton showed that there was a new "Richmond in the field;" that a noble and princely intellect had taken its seat on one of Vol. xxvii-1