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Show CARLYLB AS A CRITIC. j ' Bags Had Pronauncsd Vlawa as to Leading Literary Man. In bis recently published letters Carlyla gives his views as to various suen of letters of his Urn. He calls Tennyson "a vary clever man" and "on. of th powerfulest smokers I aver worked a)6ng with In that department" de-partment" Ttuakln. though "a bottl of beautiful aoda wal.r," was "very aleasant company now and then." Ma-caulay Ma-caulay b considered "really a food sort of soul." The lecture to Browning, Brown-ing, whom he strongly advised to Uy arose, for a time, Is rather amusing. "Unless I very greatly mistake, you seem to possess a rate spiritual gift, poetical, pictorial. Intellectual, by whatever name we may prefer to call It; to unfold which Into articulate clearnesa la naturally the problem of all problems for you. This noble endowment. en-dowment. It seems to me, further, you are not at present on tho best wsy of unfolding and It the world had loudly loud-ly called Itself content with thea two poems, my surmise Is, the world could have rendered vou no fataler disservice disserv-ice than that same! Bellev m I peak with sincerity, and If I had not loved you well I would not have spoken spok-en at all." |