The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-22


 dog the footprints of the little But the double" Is a frequent parsonage, and he is worth some study Says Mir Lang.
 We all suffer more or less from "doubles,' and by tho double l do not mean the "doppclganger or 'cowalk- CT" or astral body" but the human being who is confused with us by the public Mir, Matthew Arnold was apt to be confused with Sir Edwin, and was often congratulated in America on the merits of his poem, The Light or Asia" A lady once told me that this was the only poem of Mir Matthew Ar hold which she could tolerate, and l replied that of Sir Edwn's verses l preferred ''The Scholar Glpsy.' Very many years ago l was told that MT, George Meredith was n son of Lord Lytton, the novelist We see how this fable grew. "Owen Meredith" was used as a nom de gucrre by the eldest son of Lord I.ytton. by the author of 'Lu- ellie" The rest of the blunder came easily. When Mir, Thomas Carlyle, the sage of Cheyne Walk was hurt he, like Mir Sdueers Cor was II MISS squeers?), did not moan tow, he moan ed loud Never having heard him moaning loud about double, l sup posed that he had none, This was ar error of malobservaton, In the preface of Literary and Historical Essays by that very interesting writer, the late Rev Henry Gray Graham, We hear about Mir Carlyle's double. He was Mir Thomas Carlyle, Advocate, and his genealogy Is a puzzle to me The title of the old Carlyles of Tor thorwold which was limited 10 heirs male. "fell Into abeyance after the death of Michael. fourth Lord Carlyle (of Torthorwald)) "in 1579' As far as can see. lt did not fall into abey- ance," but became extinct for lack oi male heirs. Though l write without book, feel certain that, after loI9' the carlyle lands were held by an heir ess, who married a Douglas, and II he did not murder James stewart oi OchIltree, at the time Earl of Arran' in pursuance of blood feud, l am much mistaken.
 Yet 1t seems that, in iiaS, Mir. Dacre Carlyle was served heir to the las' Lord Carlyle" who died in lb19. How this was managed Is what l want tt know. Finally Mir, Thomas Carlyle advocate (the dpuble), Inherited the claim to the vacant title. He wa' the last direct male descendant oI the Lords Carlyle of Torthorwald' But if that peer had direct male heirs how did his lands go to an heiress IT the reign of James VI, fact or which l am ready to lay a moderate wager? Meanwhile the true Thomas Carlyle was traced, in genealogl which I have seen, to the House O Torthorwald, end back behind th' | Norman Conquest. The Sage is sait 10 have taken certain amount of in terest in this pedigree but we are tolt that "the great Thomas, of Cheyn' Row, was not descended from tn baronlal house" of Carlyle.
 Meanwhile we have letter by MI Graham, who married a lady of tn family claiming 10 be of the Torthor wald lineage, in which he quotes tn bitter moan of Thomas, of Chelsea against my double-goer. T, Carlyle Advocate" then lately dead, and tn numerous mistakes wlful and inyol untary, which. from my fifteenth yeai he occasioned mo, selling his pamph lets az mine. getting my letters as his and vice versa; nay, once or more wit some ambassador at Berlin dining | my stead-foolish vain fellow, wh called mo nntlchrist withal in his serl ous moments. Thomas add ed that his namesake had been 'al angel" which nobody could mistak him for
 Mir. Graham, in letter to tn Athenaeum, demonstrated that man of the grievances of the true Thoma were imaginary. The double was n angel" merely apostle for Ger many of the Catholic Apostoli Church. not that of Rome, but rath CT of Paisley. or some such place commonly called "Irvlngite." H was very well acquainted with tn German language and literature which must have increased the cor
 fusion He was only six years ol when the genuine Thomas was fiji teen, and possibly the letters of tn
 pair were misdellvered. even thei Tho younger Thomas published h
 pamphlets on "The One Catholic Sl
 premacy," The Office of the Parf
 clete," and so on, either anonymous or with the addition of Advocate his name. More he could not do, avoid confusion, unless he had adde Apostle for Germany" and eve " that might have led to confusio MT Carlyle IT, was known we'll to Il Bunsens, and generally to the socie of Berlin, and when he dlned vii ! ambassadors did so as himself, ar
 not as the Sage of Chelsea. He WI
 a friend of Edward Irving, who WI
 also friend of Thomas Carlyle l. e thus appeared that the sage "barkt j. up the wrong tree" The works
 one of the pair may have been bougt
 by careless purchasers, as the wor' D of the other, just as l am used |. being criticised for the poetry ar f prose of an author who bears II :, Christian name and patronymc, al f letters may have been misdelivere F But abe Sage can have had no wor 2 sufferings from "co- walkers" n "double-goer," and of his tribulatio 1, he made too much. Miss Carlyl |. the Sage's niece, very properly omi !. ted the passage from her uncle
 "reminiscences.
 America provides doubles for sor , of us, witness the two Messrs. Robe
 Bridges, both poets, of Tyres most (
 versely tuned, and the two Mess,
 Winston Churchill, who do not trei
 the same path to glory. For myself