Lanterna Rally

Author: Plymouth Church

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781230039633

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...He suggests that it be bought and a good house be put up for the mother--large enough, too, so that he may come and " spend not weeks, but months and months;" bring his books and papers and work. The letter breathes the tenderest feeling and solicitude. Times are bad he has heard; the one great cause of causes in Annan is whisky. " Other things in the world are a mixture of God and devil--whiskyis pure devil." In another letter he gives an account of his trip through Sussex, and of his meeting Julius Harethis was in 1840.. We talked for a long time of many things. " He loved his family and they loved him." Of the Froude lifeand letter she said: " On the whole it is satisfactory, though there are a few things which he' had better not have put in." I gather that so far as this 1part of the family is concerned there is no special criticism of the Froude life. Why should there be? " Paint me as I am, warts and all," said Cromwell. So with Carlyle. Let us have him as he was. He never claimed to be perfect, nor asked for toleration. I wish that these letters could be published. They reveal the heart of him. He was at his best when writing to his home people, and we can never get too much of the best of a man. It lifts high the average of him. Many things she told us are too personal to write, but they brought the man close to us. We walked out on the moors--mile after mile, dreary, dreary--with no passer, as he said, but some tramper from Ireland. Hither came Emerson one day, dropping, as Jane Carlyle said, like an angel from heaven, "and left us weeping that it was only one day." What a day! When walking over the moors, they talk of things not lawful for men to utter....