New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-27
ADAY OF JUDGMENT FOR CARLYLE.

GAL Hamilton N The North American Rerie,o.
Here was "a golden opportunity which the perfect
itual and eternal good. If instead OF following INN
with minute instructions she had let MN take ms
own course he might have dined on the logical CON
scouences TO the edhcation Of his character II not
his digestion. When the wifo's weary hands were
folded in their final rest the fastdious husband did
not die. Whatever may have been the iiayor OF hl5
chops or the condition of bis stomach he lived
MANY years Of cheerful and ruddy health lie
might Just as well have done without her drndgery
in her life rs in her death. She feared that MS
frightful impotence with any new servant UNI
trained TO his ways would drive woman out OF
the house with hair on end, If allowed to act di-
rectly upon her. But i would have been wiser TO
let his friQhtful impotence drive procession of
women ont of the house, until starvation shOnld
have taught the prudence of sei-control since the
only effect of Mrs. Carlyle's constant standing be
tween to gather the spears INTO her own breast WaS
her own prolonged death wound, and Carlyle's
posthumoIs annexation !, on heavens tno com Pm
husband had insisted on her sitting in q violent
draught all the way-the same husband who 20
properly counseled his Brother James to DO moth,
ing that il selfish y; in consequence of which he had
20 record sad, sick winter awaited my dear one"
which sad sick winter made such an impression on
his dear one that, two years aiterward she refused
10 Join him because she might need to have WIN
dow shut when he preferred IT Opcnl
Mrs. Carlyle injured her husband Her self-sur-
render nOurished III him the violence, the unrcason,
the arrogance the Injustice the insensibiity which
should have been annihilated There IL no sign that
a single fault of his grew less under her tutelage
the GOODNESS of his temperament He apparently
never resisted temptation. The vices to which be
was inclined he INDUCED in without restraint. In
calm and solitude his conscience sometimes stirred
but when occasion offered, his violent sef-indulg-
ence crowded IL down. The one reason when
relieves her seryItude from weakness 49, that she
Thought his health demanded and his gcnus justi-
fed her sacrifice. And, indeed, he r0arcd Justify
over his maladles that more experienced woman
than Mrs Carlyle might be excused for supposlng
them real while his genius was in truth sufficient
10 Justify the sacrifice of everything but character.
But his maadies were more than doubtful. FrOude
openly SCOTS Mt huis dyspepsia, In 1860 when he
novelty 90 him that he could only express his i'm
patience at it by jumping violently out of bed,
though, says the anxious wife, that sound over
head used TO set my heart a-thumpmg to such de-
gree that cOudn't get another wink of sleep, and
was on the brink of "A nervous fever when he lett"
Poor loving soul p annotates the sOrTOwful bus
! band reading the pitifu record after he had
thumped her through the Valley of the Shadow of
! Death.
when his own retrospective review of them Is thor
0ughly sincere and solemn. Enthusiastic praise, fol
him. is, IL did not fare intolerably there at ALL
Twinges of shame for his multifarous wailing over
| his ill-heath rarely appear. BY this time she
must be beginning to know . he says. with n certain
shamefaced brazenness after having ronsed his
Murder am not always being killed, which
his wife could never learn. Bad health. too" he
| pleads again, and then, with n simultaneous CLEAN
Of self-knowedge and of self-defence against it,
at least singularly changed health p lntolerabl'
suffering, rage almost despair, was the resnlt of bis
| having to sit on Jury . In short, he had al
ali times through fife the solid comfort of beowinl
| like bull of Bashan against its ills. He should not
have been taken too seriously. The whole creation
soured on his stomach yet ten years after his wifi
| was in her grave, Lord Ronald Cover reports him a.
wonderfully hale and hearty for fourscore, hi
cheeks ruddy those OF charity -sohoo boy, II
force and in good spirits, his talk full of grist ant
humor," which shows how sanitary an act is below
ing.
Her life was lofty. Her moral plane was immeas
| urably above Carlyle's. Hex intellectual force