On the Choice of Books

15

Diary of Thomas Moore. (Lond. 1856.) Vol. vii., p. 224

16

There seems to be some omission or slip of the pen here.

17

Facsimiled in "The Autographic Mirror," July, 1865.

18

JAMES GRANT: "Portraits of Public Characters." (Lond. 1841.) Vol. ii., p. 152.

19

Shade of Mr. Turveydrop senior, hear this man!

20

"Portraits of Public Characters," by the author of "Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons." Vol. ii. pp. 152-158.

21

Essays: by R.W. Emerson, of Concord, Massachusetts. With Preface by Thomas Carlyle. London: James Fraser, 1841.

22

Reprinted in the "Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini." (London, 1867). Vol. iv. pp. 56-144.

23

"Mr. Mazzini's character and habits and society are nothing to the point, unless connected with some certain or probable evidence of evil intentions or treasonable plots. We know nothing, and care nothing about him. He may be the most worthless and the most vicious creature in the world; but this is no reason of itself why his letters should be detained and opened."—leading article, June 17, 1844.

24

From The Times, Wednesday, June 19, 1844.

25

George Henry Lewes.

26

"Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli." (Boston, 1852.) Vol. iii., pp. 96-104.

27

W.M. Thackeray.

28

"Life of General Sir William Napier, K.C.B." Edited by H.A. Bruce, M.P. London: Murray, 1864. Vol. ii. pp. 312-314.

29

(Printed in The Times, Tuesday, July 2, 1861.)

30

The Argosy, May, 1866.

31

Originally published in Carlyle's "Past and Present," (Lond. 1843,) p. 318, and introduced there by the following words:—

"My candid readers, we will march out of this Third Book with a rhythmic word of Goethe's on our tongue; a word which perhaps has already sung itself, in dark hours and in bright, through many a heart. To me, finding it devout yet wholly credible and veritable, full of piety yet free of cant; to me joyfully finding much in it, and joyfully missing so much in it, this little snatch of music, by the greatest German man, sounds like a stanza in the grand Road Song and Marching Song of our great Teutonic kindred,—wending, wending, valiant and victorious, through the undiscovered Deeps of Time!"