THE CARLYLE MEMORIAL FUND.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I do not wish to enter into the controversy which has been carried on in your columns respecting the Carlyle Memorial, but I should be much obliged if you will allow me to say that the fund for erecting the statue of Carlyle on the Thames Embankment amounts now to upwards of £1,000. In spite of the painful impression produced by the " Reminiscences," dona- tions have been received from such men as Dean Stanley, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, C. Darwin, J. Tyndall, Huxley, Jowett, Max Miller, Lecky, and Emerson, and for my own part,
should feel bound to do my best to hand down to posterity a
veracious " likeness of Thomas Carlyle, if nothing else had -been given to the world beyond the immortal " Sartor Resartus." —I am, Sir, &c.,
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