WHAT CARLYLE MADE BY HIS BOOKS.
■■ ' r~~~~- ; ! Mr. Carlyle leaves between real and personal property an estate iworthT £45,000. ; The "personalty has been realised almost entirely by. the profit on his ivories since 1865, profits which were but little encroached upon by his • personal : expenditure. Up to the period of the completion of his "Frederick the Great'-' his income from his books had never exceeded £300, great though his reputation had then become,- and, as he paid a secretary during five years of his working over the "Frederick. £100. per .'annum, the net sum he then realised from his literary labours was about £200 per annum. Even then, however, his income exceeded his expenses. Frugal by choice, when ; his publisher's account showed year by year a fastincreasing balance, and his could be stated at over £2000 per year, he never, varied his simple mode of living; and it should be added that his impulses towards generosity never ran away with his prudence in giving. Hence this £45,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6099, 4 June 1881, Page 7
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