This quotation refers to the first volume. The second volume came out in the same year, but the third and fourth did not appear until 1855. Volume five was edited by Macaulay's sister, Lady Trevelyan, in 1861. It continued the portion of the History which was fairly transcribed and revised by the author before his death. The posthumous appearance of the last volume reminds us of what Mr. Alexander B. Grosart says in his life of Spenser, apropos of the promise on the title-page of the _Fairy Queen_ that the work should be in twelve books fashioning twelve moral virtues: "Than this splendid audacity I know nothing comparable, unless Lord Macaulay's opening of his _History of England_, wherein--without any saving clause, as Thomas Fuller would have said, of 'if the Lord will'--he pledges himself to write his great Story down to 'memories' of men 'still living.'" Octavo. COLLATION: _Five volumes._ ALFRED TENNYSON, FIRST BARON TENNYSON (1809-1892) 89. In Memoriam. | London. | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | 1850. In May of the year 1850, _In Memoriam_ was privately printed for the use of friends, and soon afterward was published in the present form, at six shillings. A second and third editions were issued in the same year. They are alike in all particulars except for the correction of two literal misprints. Though the book was anonymous, the authorship was never in doubt. A circumstance connected with its publication, though not bibliographical in its bearing, demands a passing word. "If 'In Memoriam' were published," Hallam Tennyson says in his life of the laureate, "Moxon had promised a small yearly royalty on this and on the other poems, and so my father had decided that he could now honourably offer my mother a home. Accordingly after ten years of separation their engagement was renewed.... Moxon now advanced £300--so my uncle Charles told a friend,--at all events £300 were in my father's bank in his name." With this and their small incomes combined they decided to marry. The marriage took place June 13, the month that saw the publication of "In Memoriam." Octavo. COLLATION: _vii, 210 pp._ NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 90. The | Scarlet Letter, | A Romance. | By | Nathaniel Hawthorne. | Boston: | Ticknor, Read, And Fields | MDCCCL. James T. Fields, in his little life of Hawthorne, tells of a visit to Salem to see the author. He goes on to say: