Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-12
CARIXLE,s "REMINISCENCES.
Passages from Autobiography
Edited by RTOude.

FaSSaXeS nom AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Edited by RTOude.
CARLyLKs SWEETHEART AND WIFE.
As child she was remarkable for her large
black eyes with their long curved lashes- As
girl she was extremely pretty-a graceful and
beautifully formed figure. upright and supple
a delicate complexion OF creamy white, with
pale rose tint in the cheeks, lovely eyes full or
fire and SoftBeSS, and with great depths OF
meaning. She danced with much grace; and she
was good musician. She was ingenious In
all works that required dexterity of hand.
She could draw and paint, and she was good
carpenter. She could DO anything web to
which she chose to give herself. She was fond
OF logfc-toO much so; and she had Keen,
and hating all that was make-be or pre-
tentious. She had good sense that amounted
to genius She loved to learn, and she Guilt
waited all her faculties to the utmost OF her
power. She was always witty, with gilt for
nar1 at1OD;-fn word she was fascinating anc
every body tell in love With her. A relative
OF hers told me that every man who spoke TO
her for five minutes felt fmpelied TO make her
an offer OF marriage. From which 1t resulted
that great many men were made unhappy.
l think 1t highly probable that II flirting were
capital crime, she would have been In danger
OF being hanged many times over.
OF course people thought she was making a
dTeadiuily bad match IN marrying Cary lie:
they only saw the outside OF the thing but she
had faith In her own insight. Long arterward,
when the world began TO admire her husband,
at the time he delivered the Lectures on Hero
Worship, she gave little half scornful laugh
and saio, ''They tell me things as II they were
new that found out years ago." she knew
the power OF help and sympathy that lay In
her, and she knew she had strength TO stand
the struggle and pause before he was recog-
niZed. Sue told me that she resolved that he
should never write for nc oney, only when ne
wished Ii, when he had message in his heart
to deliver. and she determined that she would
make " hatever money he gave her answer for
all heed1ul purposes; ana she was ever faithful
to this resolve. She bent her faculties to eco
nom1cal problems, and she managed so well
that comfort was never absent from her house,
ard no one looking on could nave guessed
whether they were rich or poor.
EARLY MARRIED LIFE.
we were not unhappy at CraigenputtOch
perhaps these were our happiest days. Use
1ul, continual labor, essentially successful that
makes even the moor green. found could
co lully twice as much work In given time
there as with my best effort was possible In
London, such the Interruptions, etc. Once, in
the winter time, REMEMBER counting that for
three months there had not been any stranger,
not even beggar. called at Craigenputtoch
door. In summer we had sparsely visitors.
The visit OF Emerson from Concord, and our
quiet night OF clear, tlne talk, was also very
Jeffrey was, what with mlmlclty OF speakers,
what with other cleverness and sprightliness,
the most brilliantly amusing creature have
ipgen 10 see t He was most gifted
dramatic genius; say melodious 4Oldoni or
more, but made into Scotch advocate and
Whig); never deeply serious man. He dis
covered here. think, that could not be ''con-
verted," and that was Of thoughtlessly rugged
rustic ways, and faulty irIeverent Of MIN
(Which alas, Was)
enputtoch was SaTtor Resartus; done, l think,
between January and August, 1880; my sister
Margaret had died wkae Ii was going On.
well remember when and how lat Templand
one mOrp1ng) the germ OF 1t rose above ground.
Mine MONTHS used TO say, 1t had cost me In
writing, Had the perle ual fluctuation, the
uncertainty and unintelligtple whimsicality OF
review editors not proved so intolerable, we
might have fingered longer at Craigenputtoch,
perfectly lett alone. and able to do more work,
beyond doubt. than elsewhere"
CARLYLE ON PUBLISHERS.
OF money from French ReVolullon l had here
as yet got absolutely nothing; Emerson, In
America by an edition OF his there, sent me
ESQ (''pathetlc;n was her fine word about 1T,
| years grateful England Through poor scrubby
but correctly arithnetical Fraser ei00; and /
| don't RENE when, some similar munlfl
cence; but l now land indeed not till recent
years do j see it had been, as she called it, "a
| great success" and greatiSh OF It's kind. Money
| | did get somewhere honestly, articles IN
Fraser, In poor Mili's considerably htdebound)
London Rerie,c; Edfnburyh, think, was out for
| me before this time. London ReUle'C was at last
| due TO the charitable faith Of young Sir VIII
an arGen bee1erp IN M I Peps e ou
| Mil Fills. "How much will your ReUte,o take
to launch 1t then? 2" asked he, (al other Radical
believers being SO close OF fist. Say ca 900, -
answered Mill. Here, then"-writing check
| for that amount-rejoined the other. My prl-
| vate altogether privately feeling, l remember,
was that they could. with profit, have en-
| haps even Though Of this was candid enough
| TO doubD made me editor OF 1t; let me try IL Tor
| couple OF years. worse could not have sue
ceeGen than poor Mill did as editor, {sawdust to
the masthead and croakery OF craving things
Instead OF speaking by men)
Few mtn ever more surprised me than DID
the great Albemarle street Murray, who had
| published for Byron and all the great ones for
many years, and to whom Jeffrey sent me rec
ommehded. Stupider man than the great Muir
ray In leok, In speech, In conduct, In regard to
| this poor SartOr' question, imagined had
! Seldom or never seen
CARLYLE's BURNT MANUSCRIPT.
He thus describes the story OF the lost manu-
| script OF the French revolution, which had
been lent TO John MIN, and was burned by a
stupid servant to kindle fire:
how Well do still remember That night when
he u. S: MilD came to tell us, pale as Hector's
ghost, that my unfortunate first volume was
burned. II was like half sentence OF death to
us both, and we had to pretend to take it light
ly, so dismal and ghasJly was his horror at it,
three mortal hours or So bis departure was
quite relief to us. Oh, the burst OF sympathy
my poor darling then gave me, Ringing her
arms round my neck, and openly lamenting.
ond self! Under heaven Is nothing beautifuller
We sat talking till late: ''shall be written
again" my liked word and resolution to her
Which proved to be such task as l never tried
before or since. | wrote out "Feast OF Pixies"
NOl p and then went at 1t. Found 1t fairly
impossible for about fortnight; passed
three weeks (reading Marryats noves). tried
caut1ous-cauttously, as On ice, paper thin, once
more, and In short, had job more like break
ing my heart than any other In my experience.
JEANNE alone of being burned like a steady
lamp beside me. l forgot how much of money
we still had. think there was at first some
thing like eSOO, perhaps ESQ, to front London
with. Nor can | In the least remember where
we had gathered such sum, except that it
was our own, no part OF it borrowed or given
us by any body. 'Fit to last till French Revo-
luton is ready" and she had no misgigings at
all. Mill vas penilently liberal: sent me f200
On day or two, OF which kept cl0O actual
cost OF house While / had written burned vol
ume) upon which he bought me "Biographle
Universelle, which got bound and still have.
Wish could find way OF getting the now
much macerated, changed, and fant1cised
John Stuart Mill" to take that flOO back but
| fear there is no way.
CARLYLE'S DYSPBPTIC VIEW OF CHARLES LAMB
Charles Lamb and his sister came daily once
or oftener; very sorry pair Of phenomena In
superable procliVity to gin In poor old Lamb
Bis talk contemptibly small, indicating won
drouS ignorance and shalloWness. even when It
Was serious and gOOC-mannered, which IL seldom
was, unusually Ill hammered ito a degree).
screwed into frosty, artiflcialities, CHASTITY
make believe OF wit, In fact more like diluted
insanity" {as defined it) than anything OF real
JCcosity, humor or geniality. A most slender
1bre OF actual worth in that poor Charles
aDundaAtiy recognizable to me as to others, In
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