very your description, and Jean's former one, to picture out your two tests ming Rooms, with the red curtains and the new window, and fany that in the pleasant leason you wile be and not uncomfortable when the winter comes, as it is fast doing, you must keep a good fire, and if the weather retain you from stirring out, yet I know your hand will not be whe; and with wart to do, one need not weary. Let me find you well, dear mother, when I come back. And if I wing von good new Book in my haw, will not you have that new phas Wessing-gown ready for me! Grahame of Burnswark tells me that you are looking" a derivably well? he as that in your ways of theach and acting, you bring him, mon then I coul imagine, in mind of his own hloved mother, which I to believe is the highest compliment he could bez wow. To me His latter is full ร the most oveflowing friendliness, and was very wreferme We supture you come to stay with dear till a certain event he over, about which, how thing, the is naturally anxious enough. We that, it will all knows right and joyful, and disap -point her apperchension. Tell them to write to us directly, or do it yoursely if you are not tow How Give thanks to Iran for her there of the tetter, and by that the only reason why the does not also receive a Nore today, is that the Frank will not hold one; that American Letter way abronity a double one the Newshaper comes regularly on Friday about noon, and on Saturday I as regularly forward it to Alisk, who will thus find it waiting for hem on Monday. Tel Sean, the must not again with on it with so were expen, lest they detect us, and come out with their fire of frifly hounds! A small crow-quill stroke, which cannot be to cunning as to escape the, and then a wafer introduced to prevent the lover from slip -ping that, in cases of extremity that justify a frand on the Uvenous Port-Office, is the mo ・ther for doing it. Jackie's better unfortunately cannot be leat me, but I gather that he is and hope eve ling to have a better giy Have you got The Books; I mean, a not of Renfelsträcklis, which I despatched for four, all in a heat to Jear's care, theo M'Kinned the Bookseller. If way of Edinburgh? Your Names are on their; on Frasers counter. This Ameribut I could but nothing more, having to leave them open can better is on the same subject: I thought it would be worth was reading; for is not own confirming it.__ до all the good that happen to me a possession of yours alw? Read the Letter in this sent, and do not show it to any one else; that wen but is writiched vanity, in which, on I have found long sime there is little there for me or one. hich inord means in of Chelsea news we have as good as home to sew ·winsically good enough news. We go on in the old fashion, adhering pretty steadily to our work, and looking for our main happinen in that. This is the dull reason in London, and several of our friends are fled to the country; however, we have still a fair allowance of company left cand, what is best, the company we have is home company we have is home git had or merely a consuming of. time?, but rational, and lead to something. The best news To begin writing my Book; neg at it! wish me good speed: I have meditated the businen as I could, and must surely us; to do best. With a I have that, this day, I mean hadithos bean for the present that, would already have been in shring: I heir defied it, and bet what is to be my Kind of Trembling hope I calculate that the Enterturne moz brother with me, that the Book my be at least a true one, and tend to do Gadis Service not the Devils. It will keep me greatly on the stretch for these winter months; but I hope to have it brinted and out early Jone next we shall then see. The world must be a lougher article than even I have ever here found it, if it altogether beat the must ellawhere, and so, it can to whatsoever is permitted and appointed it. As to our other doings and outlooks, I have wither of them all at great length to Alite, the other sey; to that, as you are like If to be his letter very wow, I need not I will on them here. I have seen hill and various other agreeable persons since (for our company comes often in wishes), but met with no farther adventure. the theat is bading. very fast; Jane's lith Note too. some business to do. We shoke long ago. Annandale is the fall of the year. As you are the hunctuallest of all, I will now shif the whole to you, that you may beour courely and stir up others in the broper quarter be getting them ready. suppor, it will be some five weeks before they can go offs but I shall have got minuter knowledge, and shall unit again, begon that. Wen is the test of our wants, as I have aistrecked it by questions out of Save. First Sixty pounds of Butter in two equal figs (the butter here is Ibopence a hound!); recorde hound!); recondly a moderately - siged sweet-milk cheese, weit Two Imallish Bacon-hams (your Reef ham was just woken into last weeky and is in the best Endition); next, about 15 Stone of light Jatur extmeal (or even more, for we are to give Hunt some: Kher q it, and need almost a hound Joly, there is not now above a tone left); and after that, as many hundredweights of Potatoes as fro think will keep for the hole got is this: we take 2 hound, Daily, and they is here at it or attowant a benny a hound, and an seldom good): all this gor or into two, will reach is by white haven, and we will iss fer up Alack and Jenner them; and bay, the somer the teller and hacked into a 22457 возовка? em до [ther) your affectimate. With great came of muring at this unhealthy reawn; keep well, and we ws find how theer of you, and still that of may be good news Eat Grant I am ever My 9. Carly's to Edinbur for I have just had a heller (from Henry Sughes) that the Books are likely bee len m masharting next. Mile has undertaken to get me the pranked; which is monthan I hoved, for the members" are nearly ale off. write the woon, with wour own hand "Hazy a dropin mors may not to. Give my motherly love to dean and Jenny, and all of them, and their several houm holds, where lower, then struggle and toil Tell them all to stand true and bear nothing I that Carlyle outstripped, in the judgment of serious critics, his only possible rival, Macaulay, and took his place as the first scientific historian of the early Victorian period. His method in this class of work is characteristic of him as an individualist; he endeavours, in all conjunctions, to see the the man moving, breathing, burning in the glow and flutter of adventure. This gives an extraordinary vitality to portions of Carlyle's narrative, if it also tends to disturb the reader's conception of the general progress of events. After the publication of the Friedrich, Carlyle continued to live for nearly twenty years, writing occasionally, but adding nothing to his intellectual stature, which, however, as time passed on, grew to seem gigantic, and was, indeed, not a little An Early Portrait of Carlyle Engraved by J. C. Armytage, after a Drawing by Samuel Laurence exaggerated by the terror and amazement which the grim old Tartar prophet contrived to inspire in his disciples and the world in general. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was the eldest of the four sons of James Carlyle and his second wife, Margaret Aitken. The father was a mason, a "pithy, bitter-speaking body, and an awfu' fighter," who was living at Ecclefechan, a village in Dumfriesshire, when his eldest son was born there on the 4th of December 1795. Thomas was taught his rudiments in the village school, and in 1805 was sent to the grammar school of Annan, where he was very unhappy. From 1809 to 1814 he was a student at Edinburgh, but took no degree. He then succeeded Edward Irving as usher to the school at Annan, intending all this while to enter the ministry. His father had now moved to Mainhill, a farm near Lockerbie, and here Thomas spent his vacations studying German. In 1816 he again followed Irving as Photo] [G. G. Napier, Esq. Mainhall Farm, where Carlyle lived with his Parents from 1815 to 1825 mathematical teacher in a school at Kirkcaldy, where he fell in love with the young lady who passes as "Blumine" in Sartor Resartus. Two years later he went to Edinburgh, where he lived until 1821 by taking private pupils, and in attempting very unsuccessfully to get literary work to do. At this point, however, he began to make his force felt, and in 1821 his despondency, which must have almost amounted to insanity, had a crisis, and, though he was always violently hypochondriacal, he was never quite so blackly melancholy again. He received great kindness from the Bullers, whose brilliant son Charles (1806-1848) was how for some time Carlyle's pupil. When they came up to London in 1824, Carlyle followed, and here he soon made the acquaintance of the Basil Montagues. In 1825 he settled at Hoddam Hill, a farm on the Solway, where he stayed a year with his brother Alexander, and whence he sent to press his first book, the Life of Schiller. From here, in October 1826, he married JANE WELSH (1801-1866) of Craigenputtock, to whom he had long, after his fashion, been attached. Immediately after the marriage the Carlyles moved to Edinburgh, and he became a regular contributor to the Edinburgh Review. Here an article on German Literature attracted general remark, secured for Carlyle the friendship of Goethe, and led to other gratifying results. But money was lacking, and it was soon found that Edinburgh was too expensive and too |