E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) CRITICAL MISCELLANIES by JOHN MORLEY VOL. I. ESSAY 4: MACAULAY London MacMillan and Co., Limited New York: The MacMillan Company 1904 MACAULAY. The Life of Macaulay 253 Macaulay's vast popularity 254 He and Mill, the two masters of the modern journalist 256 His marked quality 259 Set his stamp on style 260 His genius for narration 262 His copiousness of illustration 264 Macaulay's, the style of literary knowledge 266 His use of generous commonplace 267 Perfect accord with his audience 271 Dislike of analysis 272 Not meditative 273 Macaulay's is the prose of spoken deliverance 276 Character of his geniality 278 Metallic hardness and brightness 279 Compared with Carlyle 281 Harsh modulations and shallow cadences 283 Compared with Burke 283 Or with Southey 285 Faults of intellectual conscience 286 Vulgarity of thought 289 Conclusion 290 MACAULAY.