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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3921, 23 July 1881, Page 4

Touching Carlyle, he was another of " your over-rated men—a sour-tempered, self conceited, Scotch body, with a ten* dency to the imitation of German mannerism* and an eccentric idolatry for brute strength. He was an . iconoclast, but the biggest " graven image " of the century was himself. How such egotistical high priests of pnff and cynic priegery could have palmed themselves off in their generation as guides and philosophers will be a cqnundruin to posterity—that is, if the generation who come are any wiser than this. Unluckily for himself, but luckily c for those who wish toarriveat the true estimate of his character, Garlyle wrote his ," Keminiscences.' 1 He gratified his. enemies, in this instance, not by . writing, but by leafing behind-him the material for a book. He it was who advised that Irish patriots should be " squelched like rat-," and that Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, who whipped coloured men with pianoforte wires, should be honoured and prized. .His honesty, like his style and his loftiness of purpose, was sham—merest glittering, pinchbeck sham I Verily; we are out of humour to day.— Universe. We find the following statement in the London Academy, in a review of current scientific literature :■—•', Afew years ago we remember to have noticed the large quantity of eucalyptus, trees growing " within the courts of the Monartery of the Tre Fontane, between Rome and* Ostia ; and a monk told us that whereas the . monastery, which stands in the heart of a malaria striken district, had previously been quite uninhabitable in summer, it was perfectly habitable since the planting of the eucalyptus trees. The monk stated moreover, that he prepared a sure specific for malaria fever from the Jleaves of the . tree." A friend who recently visited Borne and went to this monastery, assures us of the correctness of this account of the. marvellous influence of the Australian blue, gam tree upon the health of the inmates. ~; An illiterate person Who had always volunteered to " go round with the hat," .but was suspected of sparing' his own pocket, overhearing once a hint to that effect, replied : " Other gentlemen puts down what they thinks proper, and so ' do I. Charity's a private concern, and what I give is nothing to'nobody.