New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
ruE CARLYLE MEMORIAL.
=, INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERIZE
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AND LORD
RosEBERY WHAT THE COMMIT
TEE PROPOSE WHAT AMERI-
CANS HAVE AN OPPORTUN-
ITY OF DOING.

rrr, PROPOSE - WHAT AMERI-
CANS HAVE AN OPPORTUN-
ITY OF DOING.
-s-'t London. November 90
strong committee his now been formed to
x.ct the purchase Of Carlyle's house in Chelsea,
..oo;r IT, fit it up as Carlyle Museum. and es-
rw.b II As a permanent Memorial to one of
-. greatest of English writers. The two leading
y, on the Committee sufficiently mark this as
International tribute. The Prime Minister
~ .,s for the British Empire and the Amer
,..u Ambassador for the United States With
49,. two representative men at the head of
IVA movement. there ought TO be no difficulty in
ing the $4,000 wanted for the complete
Nome and there will be none. If the multitude
living Americans who a great intellectual
:. moral debt to the great Scotchman will pay
.ns small fraction of it in cash. the sum will
:. absorbed many times over.
imagine II 10 be the first time in which
oLme Minister of Great Britain and an Ameri-
=, Ambassador have been associated
,,c committee. There are. of course.
ru,cs in il: international or other. and there is
:, controversy OF any kind. Mr.. Bayard is there
,,,s at liberty to lend the prestige of his ambas
Il
:. hs announced on the Committee as Ambassador
:, the United States l said imagined this to be
=. srst time an American Ambassador and Brit
=, Prime Minister had joined hands in such
uay. 1t is certainly the first time since Mr.
psvard is our first Ambassador. II would be
.cually true if had said American Minister. No
soubt Mr. Lowell or Mr. Phelps or Mr.. Lincoln
,wld have been equally ready had the occasion
~..xl. -
,,,,bsr back than that Not till Mr.. Lowell's
zine did the memories of old animosities be-
,vsen the two countries begin TO fade. Mr.
yowers kindly hand was laid on some Of them,
hi. influence made for peace and good will as
had that f none of his predecessors. Mr.. Phelps
brought in the same spirit and with similar
effect BY the time Mr. Lincoln appeared, the
tradition was established. He had only to fol-
NV IN the path which had been cleared for him.
and that he did Loyalty and in the same feeling
N true Americansm which had inspired Mr.
lnwel and Mr. Phelps.
And now Mr.. Bayard. it il 10 be said, coming
after them all has opened for himself new way
10 the heart OF the people whose ancestors were
his ancestors also. and yours and mine. His
Wilmington speech was an event in the common
history Of the two countries. 1t was cabled to
people Of England; all classes. and most of all
these whom we mean by the people. He had
done much before that to promote good will. But
this public testimony TO what he had seen ana
heard. and what he knew of his own knowledge
ABOUT the nation to whom his own nation had
accredited him. was new. No Ambassador. no
Minister had done that before. or done ii in the
same way II will add something 10 the in
ausnce OF that fine speech when ne Is seen 10
Nit himself side by side with Lord Rosebery in
an act Of homage to the memory of man whose
memory is one of the glories Of England and Of
English Literature and therefore of all literature
In the English language, whether 1t springs from
one side Of the Atlantic or the other
No American and no Engshman either can
have forgotten how closely Emersons name
inks Carlyles to America. That has more real
and more permanent significance FOR US than the
wJoDS-hesjedness Of the rough old Scot about
The Civil War That he shared with the great
majority Of his fellow-countrymen al the time.
beginning with Mr.. Gladstone. We have forgiven
Mr. Gladstone in his lifetime. Are we to cherish
our resentment against Carlyle in death? MI
Gladstone did us much harm; Carlyle little or
cone. Surely the magnanim!ty By when the
more mischevOus offender profiied VIII not ex-
Jude the lesser. Emerson's name is mantle
Whom ne loved can any true American nate
Emerson was the most American .: Americans.
10 is our chief glory in literature; one Of the CHIEF
,ories We nave in life and character. Were he
Awe his rame would be the first on any list
II men assembled to 60 honor TO Cai9le' we
Jvc Il u Emerson in such matter as this 10 M
he gap so far as 1t can be filled mat We 10
Tor Carlyle We do for Emerson also
Lord Rosebery. who has never been above
hero-vorsh.Dping. in me Carlylean sense oi that
strangely misused ~5rd has shown the vaiue ne
has tor his courirynan By setting UP MS statue
In marble in The library Of the granite castle
which stands on platform by the sea Wl'nih inc
p-eoncts "a mis- Scottish home. This is Boehm
original efhry Of the Writer Of Books. Of which
the bronze figure on the Chelsea EmDanKmeht IL
replica; lie size or perhaps ratner more
seated thoughtful, rather moody III express'oh'
with the siamp OF power on the broad, low fore
head and even in the wild sweep OF the clustered
hair arranging itsel. as II likes about head OF
which the contour II all an expression OF mental
authority and completed but never arIes'eu
growth He IL one oi a group-not all MS coih-
panions In this library, but dispersed thfoueh
Dslmeny and MentmOre and Berkeley square
ani ne Durdans: altogether one OF the most IT,
narkabe galleries Of great men anywhere III
p.iyate possession. Cariyles companions az
Pit and Chatham. Walpoe and MI Gladstone
Dr.. Johnson and Napoleon Bcnapartc. ana the
e,e figure VIII. rust be named alone In no mat
"a what company. George Washington IN 'he
oasexisting iuil-lcngth portrait painted from NE
@s;uart. These are Catholic tastes ana token
Of homage from the owner OF all OF them IL
worth the more. 1t is the biographer OF Pit as
well as the Prime Minister who asks his country
men to save to posterlty the one best memorial
Of Carlyle which exists outside Of his own DOCKS
the house In which he lived forty seven years
In London
Ii any Englishman BE- in position TO attract
American support for such project Lord hose-
berry is that Engshman, since he Is me one
man in the front rank oI English pubic lie who'
throughout his career with no exception d D'e"N'
mas been a frcud 10 America ard the adtocalt