At the Chelsea Embankment, on Thursday, Professor Tyndall unveiled Boehm's
bronze statue of Carlyle. After making an 'eloquent speech on Carlyle's genius and character, he said that no man of his day threw so much of resolution and moral elevation into the hearts and lives of the young. He might be described ." as dynamic,—not didactic,—a spiritual force which warmed, moved, and invigorated, but refused to be clipped into precepts." "The misjudgments which had arisen since his .death were evanescent. A bucket or two of water whipped into a cloud may obscure the Alpine peak, but the cloud passes away, and the mountain in its solid grandeur remains." Is not this a little too much in the style of an glop We should have said that, with all his wonderful imaginative power and humour, exactly what Carlyle's character wanted' most was solid grandeur. He had the pride of Stoicism, but not the reticence and self-restraint. Of a grand character, it could never have been said that he was " gey ill to live with."
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