New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-12

was determined the statue should be set up. How
she contrived to relght the q1enched empers OIL en-
thusiasm | don't know. Relighted they were' ana
by her hand, and from some source OF ano'herlron
MANY sources certainly there came heat ana name
enough finally to melt and mould this bronze INTO
the likeness of the grim Scotchman. The Rev. Mr.
Blunt's share in the work was also very large
one and one is glad that the Rector OF Cheisea
should be clergyman of such opennesS ana hDcraii-
ty of mind as to take leading partin memorial 10
man whose creed was so widely different from his
own.
The ceremony CHANGED to fall upon busy week,
and the papers give but scant accounts OF II, ana
only a few of them have leisure for any fresh COM
ments on Caryle's character or influence. Nor arc
the comments, in truth particularly fresh. once
again we hear of his miserable iniiFmties Oh
temperp and of the lndiscretlon which brought
them to light. Conversing Yesterday with one OF
Carlyles oldest and nearest and most distinguished
friends. present at the ceremony, heard remark
worth many columns of such comments. " II ever"
said he. "a continuation of the biography appears
my tnrp | suppose will come The last two volumes
leave off where my relations with Carlyle began
Very likely he SAID hard things of me as OF others
lint | do not care what lie said nor what is pub
hshed. | always knew that in certain moods he
would crticise harshly. But these surly outbreaks
were only on the surface the spirit winch an
mated them, which seemed sour and angry
enough at the moment, was 10 part Of his real
character l loved him all through it, shall
never cease to love him"
This loyal and friendly defence will not satisfy
everybody. Nor will Professor TyndaPs fine
image OF the mountain peak shrouded III mist
" from which presently the cloud passes
away, while the mountain in It's solid
grandeur remains. as by-and-by Will stand out
erect aud clear the massive figure of Carlyle Nor
do people agree much better about the true
value OF Carlylcs teaching. The Conservatives say
that in the political and social theories he pro-
claimed Ii the principles of The olly conservatism
which can hope to make head anst democracy.
The Liberals evade that point; and think Carlyle
will live as the writer who described the Revolt OF
Women and the Flight to Varenues. Yet the
French who are surely entitled to be heard about
their own Revolution, have never accepted Carlyle
as the historian of it. NJ. LOUIS Blanc attacks him
again and again, and many other French
men. from many different points Of
view, have attacked him. Mchelet who
dcpounccs Carlyle as careless about ncht and
about ideas has a mos- picturesque criticism OF his
method: "For Carlyle the Revolution is the church
yard in Hamlet. He picks IN and weighs these
skulls with a bitter smile in which CLEANS too often
only knocking pity. This is the skull of q mad
man. that Of a fool. he word we miss IS that cry
from the heart, Alas poor Yorck."
Andvet DR.. Tyndall could say IN utter sincerity
that Carlvles defects Of feeling If such there WERE
could only have reference TO the distribution OF his
sympathy, not to its amount Which of the two
estimates is the right must be left for another
generation TO answer. G. W. s