To describe the work as 'a series of jocose caricaturesas Churchill Babington in his animadversions on Macaulay's History doesis absurd.

The controversy began seriously, after some preliminary skirmishing in the newspapers and lighter reviews, with Mr. Churchill Babington's Mr. Macaulay's Characters of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century Considered, published shortly after the appearance of the History.

What Mr. Babington and those whom he represented forgot was precisely what Eachard's opponents had forgotten, that it was not the clergy universally who had been described, for Macaulay, like Eachard, had distinguished, but the clergy as represented by its proletariat.

[Illustration: THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.

A prominent figure in the social and political life of England during the first part of the century was Thomas Babington Macaulay, a man of brilliant intellectual powers, strict integrity of character, and enormous capacity for work.

THOMAS BABINGTON LORD MACAULAY (1800-1859)

Dr. Babington.

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS CARLYLE, JOHN RUSKIN, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, CHARLES DICKENS GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS), JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, ROBERT BROWNING, ALFRED TENNYSON The required books of the C.L.S.C. are recommended by a Council of six.

At Babington opinion was somewhat divided.

'I suppose you are often there,' Mr. Babington said to his guest, the parson of Utterden.

When the conversations above related took place, the Babington wedding had been fixed to take place in a week's time.

Believe me to be, your affectionate aunt, 'Maryanne Babington.'

Whether it was Mr. Smirkie's popularity, or the general estimation in which the Babington family were held, or the delight which is taken by the world at large in weddings, there was a very great gathering at Babington church, and in the Squire's house afterwards.

Whether it was Mr. Smirkie's popularity, or the general estimation in which the Babington family were held, or the delight which is taken by the world at large in weddings, there was a very great gathering at Babington church, and in the Squire's house afterwards.

'I think the dear child will be happy,' said Mrs. Babington to her old friend, Mrs. Munday,the wife of Archdeacon Munday, the clerical dignitary who had given Mr. Smirkie so good a character.

The archdeacon, of course, has a curate; but I suppose Mr. Smirkie could hardly manage that just at present?' The views which had hitherto been taken at Babington of the bride's future life had been somewhat loftier than this.

Then there was an angry correspondence, ended at last by a request from Aunt Polly that there might be no further intercourse between Babington and Folking till after the trial.

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