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publication in the London Magazine of his Life 

 of Schiller, which was enlarged and printed 

 separately in 1825, attracting much favorable 

 attention. In 1824 appeared his translation of 

 Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, and in the next 

 year his Specimens of German Romance. 



Sartor Resartus (The Tailor Re-tailored), 

 which appeared in 1834, won for its author 

 immediate fame and remains one of the works 

 which give him high rank. The grotesque and 

 the sublime, the pathetic and the humorous, 

 crowd the pages of this book, but through it 

 all there shows Carlyle's love for sincerity at 

 any cost. In 1837 appeared the French Revo- 

 lution, a vivid dramatic picture of that his- 

 toric movement. His Chartism, Past and 

 Present and Heroes and Hero-Worship held 

 the audience which his earlier work had gained 

 for him, and Oliver Cromwell's Letters and 

 Speeches, with Elucidations and a Connecting 

 Narrative roused new enthusiasm among stu- 

 dents. The largest and most laborious work 

 of his life, Frederick the Great, appeared be- 

 tween 1858 and 1865, and after this little came 

 from his pen. 



In 1866, having been elected lord rector of 

 Edinburgh University, he delivered an installa- 

 tion address to the students on The Choice of 

 Books. While he was still in Scotland the news 

 reached him that his wife had died suddenly 

 in London, and from his grief he never recov- 

 ered. Remorse for his treatment of her hung 

 like a cloud over the rest of his life, which 

 was passed in close seclusion. He died at Chel- 

 sea in 1881, and in the years immediately fol- 

 lowing, his Reminiscences and Life, as well as 

 the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, were pub- 

 lished by James Anthony Froude. Some of the 

 revelations contained in these works greatly 

 injured Carlyle's reputation for a time, but 

 gradually the bitterness has been forgotten, 

 while the sincerity and true greatness of the 

 man have come once more to the fore. 



Of no author is it more true that "the style 

 is the man" than of Carlyle, for his disjointed, 

 rugged sentences and his fiery appeals really 

 give a very true picture of him. The follow- 

 ing quotations give some of the notes of his 

 philosophy : 



Clever men are good, but they are not the best 



There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, 

 but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or 

 unrhymed. 



Happy the people whose annals are blank in 

 history-books. 



The true university of these days is a collec- 

 tion of books. A.MCC. 



ALBERT CARMAN 



CAR 'MAN, ALBERT (1833- ), a Canadian 

 clergyman and educator, for more than thirty 

 years general superintendent of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church in the Dominion. Dr. Car- 

 man was born at Iroquois, Dundas County, 

 Ont., where he at- 

 tended the gram- 

 mar school. In 

 1855 he was grad- 

 uated from Vic- 

 toria College, 

 then at Cobourg, 

 and two years 

 later was ap- 

 pointed professor 

 of mathematics 

 in Albert Uol- 

 lege, Belleville. 

 Through his ef- 

 forts Albert Col- 

 lege was affiliated with the University of To- 

 ronto in 1860, and in 1868 was given a charter 

 as a university. Dr. Carman, who had been 

 principal of Albert College for a year, became 

 the first chancellor of the university. In 1859 

 he was ordained a minister of the Methodist 

 Church, and from 1874 to 1883 was its bishop. 

 In the latter year, on the union of the various 

 Methodist denominations in Canada, he be- 

 came general superintendent of the united 

 Church. He was an early advocate of prohibi- 

 tion, and always took an active interest in 

 educational matters, being at various times a 

 senator of Victoria University and the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, and a governor of Wesleyan 

 Theological College at Montreal. Alma Col- 

 lege for Women, at Saint Thomas, Ont., was 

 founded largely through his efforts. 



CARMAN, [WILLIAM] BLISS (1861- ), the 

 foremost lyric poet of Canada. He was born 

 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and enjoys a 

 common ancestry with Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

 In addition to his natural abilities and his 

 heritage of culture, Carman had excellent edu- 

 cational advantages, including courses at the 

 University of New Brunswick, Harvard and 

 the University of Edinburgh. In 1893, when 

 his first volume of published verse, Low Tide 

 on Grand Pre, appeared, he was already known 

 as a magazine writer and as office editor of the 

 New York Independent; this volume of verse 

 brought him to the public notice as a young 

 poet of striking promise a promise which his 

 later work has fulfilled. 



Carman's depth and richness of imagination 

 and his gift for expressing his emotions in beau- 



