THE LATE THOMAS CARLYLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2462, 8 February 1881, Page 2

THE LATE THOMAS CARLYLE.

[By Cable.]

Loxdox, Feb. o. The death is announced to-day, after a lingering illness, of Thomas Carlyle, the eminent author, aged 80. “ Beeton’s Dictionary” has the following : —Thomas Carlyle, a writer of great power and originality, who after passing the university of Edinburg, with a view to entering the Scottish Church, abandoned that intention, and prepared to devote himself to a literary life. In 1832 he was tutor to Charles Buller, Who became distinguished in the political history of his country; whilst acting in that capacity, he occupied his leisure in translating from the German. The works which he produced between his 2(ith and 32nd years were “A-Life of Schiller.” ‘‘ Legendre’s Geometry,” to which he prefixed an essay on Proportion ; the “ Wilhelm Meister” of Goethe, and specimens of “ German Bomance,” all of which were received with approbation by those who were best qualified to judge of the difficulties with which he had to contend, in imbuing his translations with the true spirit of the originals which lie had chosen to render into an English dress. Ho had now made himself well known in the world of letters, and became a contributor to the “ Edinburgh Beview,” in which ho wrote many masterly critical articles. Among these may be noticed his “ 'Essay on Burns” and on “ German Literature.” In 1833-4 appeared his “ Sartor Besartus” in “ Fraser’s Magazine.” From that time he commanded a large circle of admirers, and afterwards produced many works of sterling merit. In 1837 ho delivered a course of lectures on “German Literature” in Willis’s Booms, in London, which he followed up by lecturing on other subjects, down to 1840, when he lectured on “ Heroes, Hero worship, and the Heroic in History.” This we believe was the most popular of his courses. In) 1845 appeared “ Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches,” which added considerabl} r to his reputation. In 1850 he published the “ Latter-Day Pamphlets,’, which were more remarkable for the singularity of of their style than the soundness of their doctrines. In 1851 appeared his “Life of John Sterling,” and in 1859, the first instalment of his “ Life and Times of Frederick the Great,” the third and fourth volumes of which appeared in ISG2. Boru near Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 1795.