nduced to condense it into one
volume, which gives about all that the ordinary reader cares
for. This may be found in Everyman's library. Scott's
_Journal_ and his _Familiar Letters_, both edited by David
Douglas, contain much interesting material. The best short
lives of Scott are by R.H. Hutton in the English Men of
Letters series and by George Saintsbury in the Famous Scots
series. Among the best sketches and estimates of Scott are by
Andrew Lang in _Letters to Dead Authors_; Sir Leslie Stephen
in _Hours in a Library_; Conan Doyle in _Through the Magic
Door_; Walter Bagehot in _Literary Studies_; Stevenson in
_Gossip on Romance_ and in _Memoirs and Portraits_, and S.R.
Crockett in _The Scott Country_. _Abbotsford_, by Washington
Irving, gives the best personal sketches of Scott at home.

CARLYLE

Carlyle's _Essays_ and his _French Revolution_, upon which his
fame will chiefly rest, are issued in many editions. It would
be well if his longer works could be condensed into single
volumes by competent hands. A revised edition of his
_Frederick_ was issued in one short volume. For the facts of
Carlyle's life, the best book is his own _Reminiscences
issued_ in 1881 and edited by Froude, who was his literary
executor with the full power to publish or suppress. Froude
had so great an antipathy to what Carlyle himself called
"mealy-mouthed biography" that he erred on the side of extreme
frankness. In _Thomas Carlyle--The First Forty Tears of His
Life_, _Life in London_ and _Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle_,
Froude permitted the publication of many malicious comments by
Carlyle on his famous contemporaries. These and morbid
expressions of remorse by Carlyle over imaginary neglect of
his wife caused a great revulsion of public sentiment and the
fame of Carlyle was clouded for ten years. Finally, after much
acrimonious controversy, the truth prevailed and Carlyle came
into his own again.

Among the best books on Carlyle are Lowell's _Essays_, volume
2; David Masson, _Carlyle Personally and in His Writings_;
E.P. Whipple, _Essays and Reviews_; Emerson, _English Traits_;
Lowell, _My Study Windows_; Morley, _English Literature in the
Reign of Victoria_; Greg, _Literary and Social Judgments_;
Moncure Conway, _Carlyle_, and Henley, _Views and Reviews_.

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