do not run into unnecessary lengths.

I may perhaps try my hand on Miss Austen's novels. That is a subject on
which I shall require no assistance from books.

Whatever volumes you may send me ought to be half bound; or the white
ants will devour them before they have been three days on shore. Besides
the books which may be necessary for the Review, I should like to have
any work of very striking merit which may appear during my absence. The
particular department of literature which interests me most is history;
above all, English history. Any valuable book on that subject I should
wish to possess. Sharp, Miss Berry, and some of my other friends, will
perhaps, now and then, suggest a book to you. But it is principally on
your own judgment that I must rely to keep me well supplied.

Yours most truly

T. B. MACAULAY.

On the 4th of February Macaulay bade farewell to his electors, in an
address which the Leeds Tories probably thought too high-flown for the
occasion. ["If, now that I have ceased to be your servant, and am only
your sincere and grateful friend, I may presume to offer you advice
which must, at least, be allowed to be disinterested, I would say to
you: Act towards your future representatives as you have acted towards
me. Choose them, as you chose me, without canvassing and without
expense. Encourage them, as you encouraged me, always to speak to you
fearlessly and plainly. Reject, as you have hitherto rejected, the wages
of dishonour. Defy, as you have hitherto defied, the threats of petty
tyrants. Never forget that the worst and most degrading species of
corruption is the corruption which operates, not by hopes, but by fears.
Cherish those noble and virtuous principles for which we have struggled
and triumphed together--the principles of liberty and toleration, of
justice and order. Support, as you have steadily supported, the cause of
good government; and may all the blessings which are the natural
fruits of good government descend upon you and be multiplied to you an
hundredfold! May your manufactures flourish; may your trade be extended;
may your riches increase! May the works of your skill, and the signs of
your prosperity, meet me in the furthest regions of the East, and give
me fresh cause to be proud of the intelligence, the industry, and the
spirit of my constituents!"] But he had not yet done with the House of
Commons. Parliament met on the first Tuesday in the month; and, on the
Wednesday, O'Con