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...Have you ever read," she murmured...
...visit her aunt, Salvation Rogers. Aunt Salvation - called Salvy by her intimate friends - had had the misfortune to be born in Bangor. No one, however, was more ashamed of this fact than she herself. At the age of ten she had come to England, and had lived there ever since. She had never married; she had tried hard to become an English-woman, and had succeeded to a certain extent; but her birth was against...
CARLYLE was a Scotchman, but his literary career must be of peculiar interest to Americans. If ever it was true that a prophet is not recognized in his own country, it was true of Carlyle. For a long time he could find no publisher for his "Sartor Resartus," and it had to be published piecemeal in a magazine. It was left to a Harvard graduate to collect the scattered papers into a book, which thus established his fame. His miscellaneous Essays, contributed to various English magazines, were collected by the same loving hand and first published in this country...
...said that of late Carlyle became unfaithful to his earlier teachings. This is not the place to discuss the charge. But whether true or not, the Carlyle of the early days must for ever remain dear to the young men whose souls were set ablaze by his impassioned eloquence. Our own University bestowed on him the honorary degree of a doctor. Not the worshipper of rude force, not the fanatical hater of the negro, did it thus honor, but the matchless painter of the French Revolution, the eloquent preacher of hero-worship, and the devout apostle of a gospel which...
...DULLSTON SLOEMAN ("never went in for that sort of thing, you know"). - "I see how one can find out how large and how far away the stars are, but, by Jove! I don't quite see how they ever found out their names...