Herbert Macaulay (1864-1945) was a Nigerian political leader. One of the first leaders of the Nigerian opposition to British colonial rule, he was also a civil engineer, journalist, and accomplished musician. Born in Lagos, Herbert Macaulay was the son...

NOT BY FACT ALONE Essays on the Writing And Reading of History By John Clive Knopf 334 pp. $27.50 THE FIRST volume of John Clive's biography of Macaulay, The Shaping of the Historian, was published in 1973 to general acclaim. Unfortunately we still...

With The New Way Things Work, illustrator-author David Macaulay has 17 books to his credit. Many show how things are built. Macaulay, 52, lives and works in Bristol, Rhode Island. How can you know so much about so many disciplines and devices? Well,...