If he turns to historical fiction he may yet do for English history what the author of _Waverley_ has done for the history of Scotland. Certainly he has the finest creative imagination of his age; in whatever domain it may work it is sure to produce literature that will live. _Bibliography_ _Short Notes of Both Standard and Other Editions, With Lives, Sketches and Reminiscences._ _These bibliographical notes on the authors discussed in this volume are brief because the space allotted to them was limited. They are designed to mention the first complete editions--the standard editions--as well as the lives of authors, estimates of their works and sketches and personal reminiscences. A mass of good material on the great writers of the Victorian age is buried in the bound volumes of English and American reviews and magazines. The best guide to these articles is Poole's "Index."_ _The most valuable single volumes to one who wishes to make a study of eighteenth and nineteenth century English writers are: "A Study of English Prose Writers" and "A Study of English and American Poets" by J. Scott Clark. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Price, $2 net a volume.) These two volumes will give any one who wishes to make a study of the authors I have discussed the material for a mastery of their works. Under full biographical sketches the author gives estimates of the best critics, extracts from their works and a full bibliography, including the best magazine articles._ MACAULAY The editions of Macaulay are so numerous that it is useless to attempt to enumerate them. A standard edition was collected in 1866 by his sister, Lady Trevelyan. Four volumes are devoted to the history and three to the essays and lives of famous authors which he wrote for the _Encyclopedia Britannica_. Macaulay's essays, which have enjoyed the greatest popularity in this country, may be found in many forms. A one-volume edition, containing the principal essays, is issued by several publishers. Sir George Otto Trevelyan's _The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay_ in two volumes (1876) is a more interesting biography than Lockhart's _Scott_. The best single-volume estimate of Macaulay is J. Cotter Morison's _Macaulay_ in the English Men of Letters series. Good short critical sketches of Macaulay and his work may be found in Sir Leslie Stephen's _Hours in a Library_, volume 2, and in Lord Morley's _Critical Miscellanies_, volume 2. SCOTT