Another View of Carlyle.
The new volume of Mr Carlyle's <Lette(rS ' contains an inimitable- scene which reveals5 Carlyle really and truly m he #a"S/ A Scotch friend, calling at Chelseaj happened to remark that he and his mother hadbeen reading. Lord Beaconsn'eldte lasb novel, whereupon exclaimed , the hosfc, 'Then you and your mother are, fools.' The visitor ventured to reply that; afc least, the author of the work in question was a grea,t speaker. 'Young man/ replied Carlyle, 'I hope thaii you wiU live to,g^t s'enße, and learn that words are no eood at all; it is ;deeds, arid deeds only.' SvenT this,, however, did not shut up. the admirer of 'that _ melancholy harlequin, 1 and, after quoting an apposite passage from Sophocles, he presumed to observe, '*Yoa do not agree xvibh one of the wisest of iH* Greeks, Mr Carlyle?' to which the sage retorted, ' I see what you are now, a damned impudent whelp of an Edinburgh advocate !' Mrs Carlyle and Miss Jewsbury were present at this delectaible dialogue, arid Carlyle 1 was dressed in •a! flowered: dressing-gown 4 and had ' a pipe a foot
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 267, 9 November 1889, Page 11 (Supplement)
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