Bibliographers are often very dull people, but there are exceptions.
One of them is Mr. Isaacs Watson Dyer, of Gorham, Maine, whose admiration for the Sage of Chelsea has led him to compile a really interesting and valuable Bibliography of Thomas Carly k's Writings and Ana. This fine volume is published in England by Messrs. Spurn and Swift, of 123 Pall Mall (52s. W.). It contains not merely an annotated list of all. Carlyle's writings and of his letter printed in many periodicals, but also a remarkable series of books and articles devoted to the man and his work. For instance, thirty-five articles are cited from the Spectator, with dates ranging from 1837 to 1919. We are given a catalogue of the numerous portraits, with an interesting article on them by Mr. James L. Caw. Carlyle was a savage critic. " You have made me like a mad labourer," he told G. F. Watts, whose portrait in the Forster Collection seemed to him " decidedly the most insufferable picture that has yet been made of me." He thought Whistler " the most absurd creature on the face of the earth," but he was not displeased with Whistler's noble portrait now at Glasgow.
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