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Show v xv xV xv xv it' xk al iJi riK'K'f W 'x hood of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and the "good fellowship" pension once accepted and enjoyed by Dr. Samuel Johnson and also by the poet Southey. Carlyle declined the title as being out of keeping with the tenor of his "poor existence," and the pension because he was not in needy circumstances; but the fact of the offer and the generous language in which it was conveyed startled and subdued him. He wrote frankly to Disraeli: "Allow me to say the letter, both in purpose and expression, is worthy to be called magnanimous and noble; that it is without example in my own poor history, and I think it is unexampled, unexam-pled, too, in the history of governing persons toward men of letters at the present or at any time; and that I will carefully preserve it as one of the things precious to memory and heart." Subsequently he wrote to his friend, the Countess of Derby: "Mr. Disraeli's letter is really what I called it magnanimous mag-nanimous and noble on his part. It reveals to me, after all the hard things I have said of him, a new and unexpected unex-pected stratum of genial dignity and manliness of character which I had by no means given him credit for. It is as my penitent heart admoninshes me, a kind of 'heaping coals of fire on my head,' and I do truly repent and promise prom-ise to amend." One needs no better evidence of the real greatness of Carlyle Car-lyle than the promptness with which he recognized this magnanimity and the manliness with which he acknowledged acknowl-edged it. Youth's Companion. CARLYLE AND DISRAELI. The Former Made Ashamed by the tatter's tat-ter's Magnanimity. Magnanimity superior to his own could shame even the dogmatic Carlyle. Car-lyle. The man whose arrogance of opinion never permitted him to take anything back once had to confess that a Jew had disarmed his bigotry and changed his insulting prejudice into gratitude and respect. Disraeli, whom he had often reviled in speech and in spirit, had every reason to know how bitterly Carlyle despised him and his race; and after he had become be-come the most powerful man in England Eng-land he took his revenge. It was the vengeance inflicted by a great man who could forget his personal antipathies antipa-thies upon a great man who could not. Recognizing the commanding intellect of the surly philosopher and the luster It conferred upon his country, the prime minister offered him the knight- |