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Now for Carlyle the historian, His histories will never be text-hooks nor were they ever intended to be. His Freach Revolution " is x series of pictures, many of them lurid; all of them vivid. He strives to pevetra'e into the meaning of the scenes enacted before his eyes—for he is always a spectator—and he catches at apparent trifles and reveals their importance; and therein lies his success. the meaning of things, Froude sys: **Carlyle's special gift was to bring dead things and dead people actually back to life; to make the past once more the present." ' ockart said in this particular that he knew of only Sentt who ould equal him Froude declares further that in the double gift of accuracy and reproventative pomer io one in nny age had equalled His best-known history in that of the French Revolution. The French Revolution more than a-.y other fact in the histor of the world for the past few centuries hai made a deep impression on him:—"Europe lay pining, obstructed, amoribund: quack-ridden, hag-ridden—if there is a hag or spectre of the pit so hideous as your accredited quack, never so close-shaven, mild-spoken, plausible to himself and others Quack-ridden in that one word lies all misery whatso-"lever. The quack is n falsehood incarnate; and speaks, and makes and docs mere falsehoods, which Nature with her veracity has to disown." Of this buck he said: "It is not, altogether " bad book. For one thing T consider it to be the sincerest: book this nation has got offered to it for a good few years or is like to get for a few. T find itis one of the savages:
wks written for several confu Tt may interest you to hear h's opinions on two others of his we " "Sartor," and "Past and Present." Of ' Sartor" he said:
ainongthe pert boxys declared Sartor™ tobe certain fair onto (his fe) long ago work of genius "and such it is and shall continue to be though no cupy of it should sell these hundred years." Of "Past and Presen'" he said: "I calculate it my awaken here and there a slumbering blockhead to rub his eyes and consider what he is about in God's creation."
These opinions are thoroughly chavacteristic of the man.
Carlyle believed in strong rem: dies or Lowell said: Mr. Carlyle is for calling down fire from heaven whenever he cannot readily lay his hand on the match-box"—which is just a trifle exag-erated. In his severity there is not a little humour and a good deal of the ludicrous. For example his method of dealing with the Supreme Scoundrel of the Commonwealt! is ludicrously humorous:—On the gibbet there swung asa tragic pendulum. admonitory to earth in the name of heaven—not game insignificant object necessitous outcast, who had violently, in his extreme misery and darkness stolen a leg of mutton,—but veritably the Supreme Scoundrel "f the Commonwealth, who in his insatiable greed and bottomless atrocity had long, hood-winking the poor world, himself and led multitudes to go, fu the ways of gilded human baseness; sarking temporary profit (scrip, first-elsss claret, social honour, and the lik small ware) where only eternal loss was possible 5 and who now, stripped of all his gildings and cunningly devised speciosities, swung there an ignominious detested scoundrel testifying aloud to all the earth, Be not
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