The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-20

enjoy Carlyle and hold him in high re-
pute and deservedly SO. It is a heresy
with many readers and writer's on both
sides Of the great Atlantic to praise
him and really exalt his claims. 1t
may be with many a genuine innOVa-
ton and outrage to sincerely laud him,
but if SO I am glad to be of the nun-
Der who truly laud and magnify the
Eillustrious Scotchman, Prof. George
Saintsburg, a superior critic still living
in Great Britain, is canded enough to
admit his admiration of Carlyle. He
SAYS hat most distinguished Liberals
in Great Britain did not fancy at all
Mr.. Carlyle, but regarded him as some
thing like Antichrist, a defender of
slavery, "a kind Of hippopotamus,
~ravaging and trampling the fair fields
of PROMISE But the able Professor,
now Of the Edinburgh University, de-
clares himself a decided admirer of
Carlyle and says squarely, AS for me
and my intellectual house, we intend
to continue to still serve Carlyle. TO
this / respond honestly and ferVently
Amen. He mentions among the
friends and admirers Of Carlyle men
like Charles Kingsley, and John Rus
kin and Anthony Froude In n Of
his latest discussions Of Carlyle, the
eminent, solid Professor, concludes an
essay and study Of the Scotchman, IN
his enjoyable work he calls corrected
Impressions in this verse: A any
rate. I am sure tina no one who ever
goes to them his meetings) will
miss the splendors Of pure literature
which illuminate their rugged heights
and plateaus, and that many at
last will recognize and rejoice IN
the high air of love for noble things
and contempt for things base which
sweeps over and through them l
confess / am decidedly Carylylean in
admiration. for he is a very uncon-
mon genius. and as bold as gifted and
original and marvellously impressive.
There have lived but few Carlyles. and
I am sorry to know that there are no
rivals now flourishing in the field Of
letters. Any county that has produced
a Robert Burns. a Walter Scott and a
Thomas Carlyle may we'll reJOlce,
thank God and take courage. If Car
lyle is open to censure tor certain
tricks Of style, certain inyolutions Of
expression and thought, he is beyond
all fair question a most original.
strong, even powerful and most engage
ing writer. / am indeed very glad
that for more than forty years I have
been one of his greatly interested
readers and of loving him eel down
to old age He is surely one Of the
most original, extraordinary, enticing
OF modern authors.
Carlyle literally worried and con-
sumed with dyspepsia. He has left a
vivid picture of his distress and agony.
He taught school for four years and
saved $3.50 by it. He is as generous
down in his poverty. He had saved
a few hundred pounds of money and
was ready to share it with his younger
brother John, who was poor and
needed help. He made nearly 5000
by his first edition of the translation
Schil1er's Wilhelm Meister. In 1927,
he became a highly valued contributor
to the then famous Edinburgh Re-
view, when Lord Jeffrey was the
rarely gifted editor, who remained to
the end a staunch friend of Carlyle's.
For six years he lived on his wife's
farm known as Craigenpultock, and
worked hard and most successfully
with his pen, producing much of the
very best Of his works, including Sar-
tor Resarters and THE History Of the
French Revolution and much on
German Literature. He went to Lon
don first in 1881 and his main pur-
pose was to find a publisher of his
very original "SartOr ResartuS,' the
meaning of which was The Tailor
Retailored.' It was included to re-
form, to reconstruct. He wrote to
his excellent, pious mother about his
time. in which he refers to his great
work just published, and said: The
look Of the world is quite oppressive
to me. Eleven thousand souls in Pris-
ley alone living on three half pence a
day, II the governors Of the land all
busy shooting partridges and passing
corn-laws the WHILE That suits over
one town nearly a h~undredayears later.
Look at the rascally radical tariff rob
berries being perpetuated and the mil
lions Of poor, struggling Americans.
Carlyle wrote a book l have never
seen which he called THE Niger
Question: 1t created a good deal of
talk at that time. His great work
called THE Life Of Frederick the
Great Of Prussia was begun in 1853
and not completed until 1865. It is in
five volumes. He was seventy years
old when he finished tina 1aborious