Mr Froude and the Carlyle MSS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 241, 13 October 1886, Page 4

Mr Froude and the Carlyle MSS.

At the end of tho note-book tha* contains the greater part of the narrative entitled "Jane Welsh Carlyle," is a loose sheet originally w^fered on to the last page of the book. The first paragraph on thia sheet is tho last in Mr Froude's volumes— a most tender and affecting passage. Two unimportant passages follow, and then como thes . words, the motive for tho omission of wbi his plain No indication is given in the p -tnted text of thoir omission. " I still maiuiy mean to burn this book before myown departure, but feel that I shall always have a kind of grudge to do it, and an indolent excuse, '(Not yet; wait, any day that can be done !'—and that it is possible that thing may be left behind me, legible to interfestjed survivors— friends only, I will hope, and with worthy curiosity, not unworthy ! In which event, I solemnly forbid them, each and all, to publish this Bit of writing as it stands here ; and warn that without fit editing no part of it should be printed (nor so far as I can order, shall ever be) ; and that the ' fit editing ' of perhaps nine-tenth of it will, after I'm gone, have become impossible. T. C. (Sat'y, 58 July, 1866)." It is difficult to conceive of a moro sacred injunction that this. It has been violated in every detail.—Charles Eliot Norton, in " Princeton Review " of July.