The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25

however. Mr.. Crozier had one adventure
that r. OF general interest. BeinR puzzled by
some passages IN Sartor Resartus." he asked
for nm interview with Thomas Carlyle and OBJ
tanned IL. The meeting he carefully noted
down and relates In his book. After some con-
ventional talk about Goethe, CARLYLE turned
upon him.. asking. But what may ye bep"
CroZler told him he was a medical man from
Canada with aspirations toward literature, and
was starting TO tell him of his depression OF
mind when Carlyle stopped him and said in
q hard. irritable tone. ma, ma. that Wilma
do. Ye'd better stick to your profession.
young man. It's time enough to think Of liter
ature when you've cleared your own mind
and have something worth saying. Medicine
is a noble calling" YES, Il Is a noble profess
sion. but sadly fallen into duackcry in these
days. The least known men in 1t are often the
best. The best doctor l ever knew was a VII
lage practitioner in Scotland. Man. he could
look you through by a kind Of intuition In an
instant; but the great London doctors that
come about me here. drive up in their car
riages and are of again. after looking at
their watches mainly. leaving neither me nor
themselves better or worse of than before
the public is a great ass" After telling him
that George III. is not the fool he is taken
for" because he had collected books that
Carlyle needed for his history Of Frederick the
Great. he tackled Mr.. Crozier's mental troubles.
And which OF our authors have We been read
ing that ye have been brought into this frame
of mind?" he asked. Mill and Buckle were
mentioned, when he broke in: "0hl
Ayel Poor Mill He used to come
to me here with his Benthamism. his
Radicalism. his greatest happiness Of the
greatest number and a that nonsense.
but l had at last to tell him it was a'moonshine
and he didna' like 1t. But he was a thin. wire
draun cavbuatiah lo0in-chopninu bind If
body was poor Mill When his book on Lib
erty' came out he sent me a copy of it to read.
but l just had to tell him that / didn't agree
with a single word of it from beginning to end.
He was offended and never came back to me;
and when / wrote to him to ask him to
meet some Americans who had come
over. he never answered. my letter and
never came. and I never saw him again" Then
with a sigh. Aye. but he was a pure minded
man. John Mill!' and after a pause: But will
tell you what. his father. James Mill. a great.
big, burly fellow whom l used to see at the
India House. was essentially by far the
greater man OF the two. But of all the block
heads" he went on. by whom this bewil-
dered generation has been deluded. that
man Buckle you have Just mentioned was
the greatest" At the mention OF Herbert
Spencer's name he went off into a peal Of de-
risive laughter. and exclaimed c~ontemptu-
OuSIy. An lmn1edSuTdDle ass. AlIer u DTeak
he continues: And so ye have been meddling
with Spencer have We? He was brought to me
by Lewes. and a moro conceited young man l
thought l never had seen. He seemed to think
himself Just a perfect Owl Of Minerva for knowl-
edge" Mr.. Crozier then withdrew discounted.
1t is characteristic OF him and his book, in
which no trace OF a sense OF humor will be
found. that in this interview he never under
stood Carlyle's kindness and sound advice to
himself. but only remembered his querulous-
ness and the outspoken expressions of opinion
on the idols that he thought were doing a
young man harm.
THE Sinking OF the Merrimac. a Personal
Narrative of the Adventure in the Harbor OF
Santiago de Cuba. June 3. 1898. and OF the
Subsequent Imprisonment Of the Survivors,"
Richmond Pearson Hobson. Naval Constructor.
u. S. n. tthe Century Company. comprises in a
volume OF over 300 pages the articles already
published in the Century Magazine descriptive
OF Hobson's heroic exploit. The book is pro-
fusely illustrated with rather imaginative Pic
lures.
We have also received:
Theodore Roosevelt. the American Will
NJ. Clemens IF. Tennyson Neely.l
How to Sing the Choral Service. A Manual
OF IntoninG for Clergymen." G. Edward
Stubs. NJ. A. James Pott & Coz
"Plutarch's Lives. Englished by Sir Thomas
North Edited by W. H. D. Rouse. Vols /. and
III. u. II. Dent & Co: Macmillansl
THE Manual Of Receipts" Sidney T. John
ston. american Artisan Press.)
How to Prepare for a Civil Service Exam
nation" Francis L. Leupp. blinds & Noble.)
Life OF Samuel Sullivan Cox" by William
Van Xandt Cox and Milton Harlow Northrur.
IN. II. Northrup, Syracuse.l
Through the Turf Smoke. the Love. Lore
and Laughter Of Old Ireland" Seumas Mac
Manus {" Mac. doubleday & Mcclure Coz
"A Textbook of General Physics" Charles
g. Hastings, Ph. H.. and Frederick F.. Beach.
Phi. u. tGinn 4 Coz
Thoughts" Revised and enlarged edition.
Ivan Panin. Ivan Panip.)
The Dawn of Reason. or Mental Traits IN
the Lower Animals" James Weir. Jr.. NJ. y.
lMacmillansl