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Show TRULY A WONDERFUL MEMORY. Feats of Macaulay That See'm Almost Beyond Belief. The many Btoiies told of Macaulay's almost poi lentous memory hnvii been tainted too often to bear lepetltlon, Kays u writer Not a few of them aie on secmlngl certain aiithoilty. William Wil-liam If. Prehcott. who met .Macaulay about 18."0. has told tis some inteu-st-Ing things of his mommy. I shall mention but one. This was related to 1'iescott by Henry llalliim, who said that Lord Jeffrey had once told him "that having nipped up .Macaulay in a quotation fiom l'aradlho Ixist,' two days after .Macaulay came to him and said, -You will not cath me again in the "I'aradlbe,"' At which Jeffrey opened the volume and took him up In a Ktent nian passages at random, In all of which ho v."t on correctly repeating the original. Was it not a miraculous tour U'ettprlf .Macaulay does not hesitate to say now that ho thinks he could lostoie thu first six or seven books of the 'Paradise' In caso they wei e lost " There can bo no doubt of the truth of this and man of the other stories told of .Maeanlay's memoi). Ilo was n man of splendid talents His knowledge knowl-edge of Kugllsh hlstor) was unsurpassed unsur-passed by his contemporailes |