New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-19
CARLYLE AS A SCOLD.
A WORLD OF SLAMS.
his CONTEMPT FOR his OWN PROFESSION" AN
AWFUL SYSTEM or CANT AND LYING his
CHARMS AS A Bird EGROOM

Il correction from his wife, and yet he would take
correction from mine like lamb. lie was talking
on one occasion with distinguished nobeman
about Herat He pronounced It wrongly, Herdt,
My wife was an attentive listener. was conyerslng
with Mrs. Carlyle about paper OF mine that had re-
Gently appeared in Household Words. on The
Buried City of Ceyon,' when heard carlyle say 70
my wife, You seem interested In onr cOnyersatlOn
=" cannot quite make out what city you are taxi
ina about" said she.
why. do you not know Herat on the western
confines of Afghanstan and the eastern Of Persia,
that dipomatists are SO much interested IN Just
now r
OH, you mean Herit,7 said she. that's quite
different thing. Nobody calls IT llerat
e He accepted the correction without murmur, and
for the rest Of the evening spoke OF the city as
Her6t
on another occasion he quoted wrongly from the
Bible is thy servant dead dog 70. do tins
thingF " IL il not a dead dog, Carlyle, SAID his
wife-she spoke with burr ON the T, karYle; II Is
not a dead dog Carlyle. but dog l. thy servant
"A dog to do this thingY'v Carlyle heard her pa
tiently To the end and little after took occasion
Ia repeat his misquOtatiOn quite gravely is thy
servant dead dog 10 do this thingT His wlIe'
like prudent woman, did not hear II.
So much easier do we find ii tn be corrected by
other peoples wives than by our own
The following are my notes written quarter oi
Oct Oct -. ifs56.-NIy wife and spent the evening,
: to T. with Mr.. and Mrs Carlyle.
(. had some men 10 make n room for me on
the top of my house. They used bad timber-did
not know their work-came tumhllng through lhe
rnof often into the other rooms at the top-woIk-
men complained of the ma, ter-the master OF the
yorL Everything done in the same way now
days-an age of shams-shams IN religion IN sooal
life I'm 70 .'tc. 10 was the same two hundred years
ago, Do was all sham and the people that WOuid
not have shnuS the earnest thinking men
rose and svore 20 should not be 80 any onger-they
would emit each Others iroats Tor II, II hecd "cle'
but The -hau- they would not endure
*. " II everyone thought 80 now we should have
another utolufnn."
4 THAT'S exactly what we do want--a thorough
revolution hut NOT revolution after the french
mndcI u.ot peaceful sensible revoistlon' bH u.
] ser no D.. Hr these timc,-they must Just 90 TO
pcrd;ion Nu way, and then
h Ant z.
&. And Tho, revolutions and misgovcrnments in
cycle. BOO eternal cvclrs 40 far ~ can scc.'
Tho subject changed 10 literary men -
4 lhe most contemplate man OF the day Il the
literary mantle honest sh0ebiark Is "A more re-
sperfahle and useful citizen Ii knew of any
Young man going 10 devote himself entirely to NJ
eraturc as a profession. ! should say For Gods
sake SIR stop. don't be- an honest useful man any
other way. lou never will be- that way. Men
write without thinking nowadays. Everyone thinks
Dec can Writc-that~ all the thinking many do.
Even history is written without research
K. The magazines and reviews have been very
a. Az have theyf / never read them. / have
the most utter contempt and a1houcnce Tor tue
literary canailc Of the day with their reNiews ana
MAGAZINES and Times newspaper. They should tTy
and understand mc-that would be more sensible
And what have they been saylngI
h. The North British Roriqr had an eXceuent
article as ! thought 10. on The Religious lendrh.
res of the Day-Ncwman, ColcIidgc. and Carly lr,'
endeavoring to point ont what they believed TO
Doe your influence ~ religions qnestloA55 on the
world One of Ainsworth's MagaZin. bentley or
the Neic honhly-has an article this month TOO
abeut you but solely as a literary man "A poor arm
cleall about your style, winch Is not 10 tl'h In
& Sc Blind leaders Of the blind How shall they
understand me with their devotion TO the deNil
Give me a God-fcaring man and GOd-l"iieVng
man. and that man will understand me but your
AInsworths Magazines are only part OF mat aNiul
system Of cant and lying thar sweeps thsahu 10
perdItiOn IN these days. Where there ~ no ruin
there can br no utteranccs worth listening To-
Some Of these reviewers remind me OF men accumu-
! atng first laborOusy q heap OF refuse ana men
proceeding diligently 10 examine II AMI Rrop" IN ~
for novelties That's the work that behts Them De
ryc me. | care nothing what they Say OF me. or 10
Mrs. c. We have been greatly amused with
! a book of Mr.. Charles Readc's, . It Is Never
too Late To Mend MIR bcaCo has. evidently
adopted unconsciously suppose Cariylos style OF
mannerism--competely so-and yet the views OF
| the two men are 80 widely dssinlilar-as opposite
M possible to each other IN tact II Is stuPih
| book-R very stupid book the author Ampathlrs
with criminals and such like, all which Dir Carlyle
and hold IN adherence.
and ticket-of- leave men II just one of the worst
symptoms of the age IN which We I'VE. INT II Is
not 10 be wondered at that mon. with no sincerity
about themselves. should do their best for their
brethren the children of the devil II thcy had any
real adherence of the crime, they would tng their
| mawksh sympathy to the winds Ihcy don't sec
they never will sec. that men who act so are like
INTO those they succOr The one Is the har with
dirty linen. living in prson-the other is the lar
with clean linen. living IN his own house
K The ticketOt-leaye system sometimes leads 10
crimes IN our very streets hat II the use on
prisons one may ask. if the people that ought 10 be
in them are josting us AZ every corner I,,h. 10
{. " The people that Ought 10 be IN them ma, ma
ha IA loud hearty. honest laugh-they would be
large prisons that would hold all that ought 10 be IN
them. Had these sympathizcrs any conscientious
adherence of crime they would say 10 the crtni-
nal Out of my sight, villain TO way WIN yo 10
your father the devil They do not see that their
-. 49, hos only he
convinced of the fact that Il Is accident a. we call
il that prevents them taking the others place he
result OF all this. and of all our hoHo"ness ana de-
ceit and want of faith and goodness Is that We
are rushing on 20 ruln-all our Enghsh ana Alnerl.
can agltatons and democracies Notwithstanding; l
have no faith in these denocracles. or IN republics
nc all Things may last so for fifty years. perhaps,
not longer. certainly
X. Is there no native energy in The English race
10 prevent thsf Have we not men OF genius To lead
us I'm a. gIcat abundance a. everf
c. Yes think we have rs many men OF germs,
rs much talent: but that will not save u.s. ~ things
90 our talent is all directed TO talking and writing,
instead OF doing"
X And vet no hope for England r.
G. None; for a hundred years We have been 20
ing downhl fast. losing faith and hope. W Int
kind Of boy is this that Is to he our KING OF tlg
land next The German race We have imported
from the Continent has been heavy, stupid race;
Prince Albert Ii an exception. lie looks forward |
think. and Is preparing for what lac ioresers-that
those boys of his will 1--we "a Troublesome times bul
lac cannot say 50, of course
There wa- pause aud We talked afterwards Of
Cc,lon and Buddhism. Sir Arthur Bulle-, one of
his old pupils. had told him the Ciagaese were
incorrigbc liars.
effects Onc man committed suicide to escape the
main of "A toothachc another 10 get nd OF whitow.
concluding all over thu East man seems more
earnest IA religion than N the West
G. True very true. The only great ontbnrst we
have had of true faith within the a-t two centuries
Inn Europe was Mcthodi-m hut, IN uur own time, II
h like the rest hollow and falSc-utt"rly untrue.
X. 81 have seen some. sir. that were rs devoted
~ their crcod-somc Mcthodlsis-as any do,otecs oi
thc East.
C. Exceptions heard one Of the best Of them
nt Derby once lie hnd been "a Joiner, believe hnl
be- spoke cnrnesty. That man saw before NM ia
the other world, two states of existence the or"