THE LATE THOMAS CARLYLE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2171, 9 February 1881, Page 3

THE LATE THOMAS CARLYLE.

Our London telegrams this evening announce the death, after a painful illness, of Mr Thomas Carlyle, the well-known author. The following sketch of the deceased gentleman’s career is taken from “ Men of the Time ” :

“ Carlyle, Thomat, essayist, biographer, and historian, was born in 1795, at Ecolefechan, a small village in Dumfriesshire, where his father, a man of intellect and earnest religions feeling, held a small farm; and received the rudiments of his education at Annan. At the nge of fourteen he entered the University of Edinburgh, passing through a regular curriculum, and studying mathematics under Professor Leslie. Intended by his parents for the ministry, he remained at the University upwards of seven years, spending his vacations among the hills and by the rivers of Dumfriesshire. At College bis habits were lonely and contemplative. After teaching mathematics in a school in Eif esbire for about two years, he determined to devote himself to literature, and in 1823 commenced his career by contributing to Brewster’s ‘ Edinburgh Encyclopedia ’ some able articles on ‘ Montesquieu, ’ ‘ Montaigne, ’ ‘ Nelson,’ and the ‘ Two Pitts,’ and literary notices to the ‘ New Edinburgh Eoviow.’ In the same year he completed a translated of Legendre’s ‘Geometry,’ to which he prefixed an • Essay on Proportion,’ and published his translation of Goethe’s * Wilhelm Meister,’ a work which showed a direction of reading destined to influence materially his future career. On the completion of this translation he commenced his ‘ Life of Schiller, ’ which was published by in the ‘ London Magazine,’ then sustained by the talents of Lamb, Hazlitt, Do Quinoey. Hood, John Scott, and A. Cunningham. For Goethe and Schiller, two of the ‘ true sovereign souls of German literature,* his admiration bas over been unbounded, and his letters to Goethe have appeared in the poet’s published correspondence. Having married in 1827, he resided alternately at Comely Bank and Oraigenputtock, a small estate, fifteen miles to the north-west of Dumfries. In this secluded spot be occasionally contributed to the foreign and other reviews of the day. Between 1830 and 1833 he was engaged in writing ‘Sartor Epsartus,’ which appeared in the latter year in * Fraser’s Magazine.’ During the negotiations for the publication of this work he was induced to remove to London, where he has continued to reside, wo believe, since 1834. In 1837 he published ‘ The French Revolution,’ a history abounding in vivid and graphic descriptions. ‘ Chartism,’ and five volumes of his ‘ Essays,' for the most part from pedodical publications, ap-