nt substitute for a reason.

I met Rogers at the Athenaeum. He begged me to breakfast with him, and
name my day, and promised that he would procure me as agreeable a party
as he could find in London. Very kind of the old man, is it not? and,
if you knew how Rogers is thought of, you would think it as great a
compliment as could be paid to a Duke. Have you seen what the author of
the "Young Duke" says about me: how rabid I am, and how certain I am to
rat?

Ever yours

T. B. M.

Macaulay's account of the allusion to himself in the "Young Duke"
is perfectly accurate; and yet, when read as a whole, the passage in
question does not appear to have been ill-naturedly meant. ["I hear that
Mr. Babington Macaulay is to be returned. If he speaks half as well as
he writes, the House will be in fashion again. I fear that he is one of
those who, like the individual whom he has most studied, will give up to
a party what was meant for mankind. At any rate, he must get rid of his
rabidity. He writes now on all subjects as if he certainly intended to
be a renegade, and was determined to make the contrast complete."--The
Young Duke, book v chap. vi.] It is much what any young literary man
outside the House of Commons might write of another who had only been
inside that House for a few weeks; and it was probably forgotten by the
author within twenty-four hours after the ink was dry. It is to be
hoped that the commentators of the future will not treat it as an
authoritative record of Mr. Disraeli's estimate of Lord Macaulay's
political character.

To Hannah M. Macaulay.

London: June 25, 1831.

My dear Sister,--There was, as you will see, no debate on Lord John
Russell's motion. The Reform Bill is to be brought in, read once, and
printed, without discussion. The contest will be on the second reading,
and will be protracted, I should think, through the whole of the week
after next;--next week it will be, when you read this letter.

I breakfasted with Rogers yesterday. There was nobody there but Moore.
We were all on the most friendly and familiar terms possible; and Moore,
who is, Rogers tells me, excessively pleased with my review of his
book, showed me very marked attention. I was forced to go away early on
account of bankrupt business; but Rogers said that we must have the talk
out so we are to meet at his house again to breakfast. What a delightful
house it is! It looks out on the Green Park just at the most pleasant
point. Th