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The Later British Ezsnyists-CarIyIe, Wa
Cuufy md Lamb.

viewing recent publications by modern essay
lists, gives the following contrast of Carlyle ant
MacauIey:
The most distinguished were Lord Macaulsy
and ar Carlyle They began to write about
the same time; Lord Mscaulay's Essay on Mil
ton appearing in the Ediuburg ReUisJr in l-25
and Mr. CGrlyle's first Essay on Jean Pau
Richter in the same Rc0iCJ0 IN 1877. The writ
ings OF these men were different from their pre-
decessOTs. Mr.. Carlyle's primary object was to
scQusiut his C0untTymen with the great men
which Germany had produced, and TO interest
them in the productions Of German genius dis
pIans Wideue6, however, ss his way cleared /;
aud the eye which looked into the hesrt OF
Galhe Schiller. and Richter, was IN course OF
time turned on The Scottish Burns, the English
johnson, szd the French Eoitaire. Il is not too
much 90 say that he has produced the best criti-
cal and biographical essays Of which the En-
rlish language can boast. And It is in the
curious mixture OF criticism and biography in
these pspsrs-.0r the criticism becomes biOgTa-
ply and the biography critcism-that their
chief charm and vslue consists. Mr.. Carlyle Is
san artist. and be knows exactly what and how
much to put into his picture. He has wonder
ful eve tor what is characteristic. lie searches
after the secret Of q mans nsture, and he finds
it frequently in some trivial sBesdOte or care
Jess eaFl4E- WHICH hLlLLcL hLlLel MNIlQ lAkG
passed uun0Hced or tossed CONTEMPORARY
aside He hunts up every scrap Of informs-
ton, and be frequently finds what be wants in
q corner. lie Judges 8 man By his poem and
the poem by the man To his eye they sTe nOt
separate things, but one and indivisble. A
mans work is the lamp by which be reads his
features And then he so apD0rtious praise and
blame, so sets off the iocose and familiar with q
moral s0lemnity, makes suecdote, and detail Of
dress, 8n sLusi0n 70 personal grace or detGTmlty,
10 subssTve. by intricate suggestion, his ultimate
purpose, and so presents to Us life with eternity
for background, that we not only feel that the
picture is the actual Presentment Of the man as
be livei-a veritsble portTai;--we feel also that
he has worked in no light OF careless mood, that
tue poorest lie is serious enough when seen
against eternity, and thatWe ourselves, however
seldom re maY remember il, are but mOmentary
shs5Ows projected upon il. Mr. Carlyle does
not w-ile % scoundrsl on one mans forehead,
aud "encel" on an0ther's- he knows that pure
scoundEel and pure angel have their dwellings,
in other PLACES than earth; he is too cUnningan
artist 10 use those mercilessly definite lines He
works by alusion. suggestion, light touches of
fancy. sports of hUu0E, g1otesque eLsggergti0ns
of imagination; and these things so reduce one
another. so tone one another down, that the
final result is perfectly natural and homOgene-
ous. i IS only by some such combination Of
fn5eLlectual forces that you can shadow forth the
eompleIity Of life and character. In humanity
there is no such thing as q straight hne or sn
uuuiIed color. You see the flesh color on the
cheek Of a portrait: the artist will tell you that
the CousumIualely natural result was not at
rsine3 by ore wash of paint, but by the mix
tgrs and reduplicatiOn of g hundred tints, the
play of a myriad of lights and shadows, no one
of which is natural In itself, although the blend
ing of tlis whole is. These Essays are the com
1letest, the most Characteristic portreits In our
literature Mr Carlyle is always at home when
his subject is man.
Lord Nacgulay also wrote essays, critical and
biographical and has been, perhaps, more widely
popular than bis great contemporary but he Is
q different kind OF thinker and writer altogether
he aid net brood over the abysses of being as
bfr. CARLYLE continually does. The sense oi
time and death did not haunt him IS they haunt
the other The world, as it figured itself te
Lord hIscsuiav, was comparatively a common
.rIsea world He cared for man, but be cared
tor marty ulits as much. He recognized msI
IS wings and tories. His idea Of the universe
-sras a Uariiamsltary one. His insight into Tasr
7-as not deep; he painted IN positive cOlors; b
Is never so antithetical as when describing
character; and character, If properly conceived
sets the measured sutitheses Of the Thetoriciar
at defiance. Isis constantly elGdIBg them. Hi
t. =
does not 90 far; II deals more with the sccidenb
fba.n the realities of things. Lord Macsulay, a
we have said. lived quite as much for party a
for man: and the men who interested him were
rba men who were historical centers, around
-vhom men and events rev0lved. he did not, Al
81 CARLYLE often does take hold of sn individus
--he does not care sufficiently for man for that
and view him against ImmeEsity; he tskei
g man and looks at him IN connection viii
contemporary events. v hen lie Wrlte'
of Johnson be is thinking all the while
oF Goldsmith, and Garrlck, and Boswell, AND
RevDcldg: when be writes Of Give and Warner
Hastings he is more anxious to tell the story o.
their Indian c0uquests than to enter into the
secrets OF their spirits. Aud for this posteTity
are not likely to blame Lord Macsulsy. He
Knew his strength. His pictorial faculty Is as
consisting; neither pomp nor circumstance cum
Flsrg II; Il moves along ike a triumphal pro
Csszion. which no weight Of insignia and banner
eau cypress Oqt Of EBe phff T" AID 4iI fed To-
,retber by the life Of e single individual, and
fha- he paints with his most brilliant colors. He
Is the creator Of the Historical Essay, and IL
that department he is not likely sOOu TO have
successor His unfinished history is q series O.
historical pictures PLACED together into one i'm
r5osing panorama, but throughout there is won
derfuI soiendor and pOmp OF color. Every
the finger nails.
CHARLES LANB-Here is an spprec iRtiv,
Judgment Of Charles Lamb:
Lamb cor fued himself for the most part Il
tbe metropolis, lie peculiar sights, It's beggsrs
fts scIlsuney-sweeps, its theaters, IFS old actors
Its book-gtals and on these subjects he dis
courses with psthos and hUmoT curiously blend
81 For him the past had an irresistible sttIsc
riop he loved cid books, old houses, old pictures
old wine, old friends. His mind was like TudO
mansion, full of low rooted, wainscoted rooms
and pictures On the walls Of men and women il
antique gaTb; NIL of toTtu0us passages witt
grim cranuies in which ghosts might lurki witt
Dlots Of shaven grass, and PROFESSIONS Of cippe'
Veyys. and stone dial IN the corner with q LRnI
motto enent the fight Of time carved upon It
and drOwsy sound of rocks heard from afar
FIa sat st the IadIa House with the heart Of 81
Thomas Browne beating beneath his sables. II
sputtsyed out puns among bis friends from tn
saddest heart. he laughed that be might no
weep. Misery, which could not make him
cytjc nor mls&nthrope, made him q humOI
ist And knowing, 6s now we all know iron
Sergeant Tafourd, the tragic shadow Whici
dsrkeuCd his home for years, one looks unol
the portrait Of Ella with pity, tempered wit
awe Lamb extended the sphere Of the essay
not so much because he dealt with subject
which till bis dsy had been untouched, bu
because be imported into that literary form
fancy humor and tenderness which resemble
the fancy humOr and tenderness Of no othe
yvriier. The manifestations of these qualitie
were as personal and peculiar as his exprel
sion of couniensnce, the stutter Of hi
speech, bis habit Of Punning, his love Of blec