THE CHOKER PAPERS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The following extracts from two letters of Bishop Phill- potts, on Macaulay's "History of England," may be read with interest and ann.sement :-
THE BISHOP OF EXETER TO MR. THE BISHOP OF EXETER TO MR.
MACAULAY (January 6th, 1849). CROKER (April 13th, 1849).
"But your highest merit is your unequalled truthfulness. Biassed as you must be by your political creed, your party, and connec- tions, it is quite clear that you will never sacrifice the smallest particle of truth to those con- siderations."
The first letter appears in "Correspondence between the Bishop of Exeter and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, in January, 1849," published by Murray, in 1860. The second letter is in
The Croker Papers," Vol. III., p. 193.—I am, Sir, &c.,
"The great point of all is that you have [in the Quarterly Review] decidedly fixed Mr. Macaulay's position in the literary republic. He is a great—a very great—historical novelist, and can never more be regarded in the severe character of an historian."
J. C.
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