. New letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; annotated by Thomas Carlyle and ed. by Alexander Carlyle, with an introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne ... with sixteen illustrations. ically as tho they had been writ-ten for the purpose. Mr. Froude has confessed that heknew practically nothing of her life there; for he says(mistakenly) that few of her Letters were preserved; andhe adds that, in consequence, we are left pretty much toguess her condition; and of guesses the fewer that areventured the better, (Life, ii, 147).* But, nevertheless,he has ventured on a good many guesses,! and
. New letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; annotated by Thomas Carlyle and ed. by Alexander Carlyle, with an introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne ... with sixteen illustrations. ically as tho they had been writ-ten for the purpose. Mr. Froude has confessed that heknew practically nothing of her life there; for he says(mistakenly) that few of her Letters were preserved; andhe adds that, in consequence, we are left pretty much toguess her condition; and of guesses the fewer that areventured the better, (Life, ii, 147).* But, nevertheless,he has ventured on a good many guesses,! and how badthese guesses were Mrs. Carlyles Early Letters, publishedin 1889, makes clearly manifest. Let us compare a few ofMr. Froudes guesses with Mrs. Carlyles facts. One guess (which, however, he sets forth as a fact)was that Mrs. Carlyle was obliged to milk the cows with herown Mrs. Carlyle herself writes: Another question ?For easy reference Mr. Froudes First Forty Years of Car-lyles Life, and his Life in London (issued as two separate worksof two volumes each) will be referred to in these pages as Ldfe, , ii.; Life, iii.^ and Life, iv. Mj^^mm3»m:^ .-^,..^.. ,, If. ^^^ CRAIGENPUTTOCK. • ? Jane Welsh Carlyle 25 that is asked me, so often as I am abroad, is how manycows I keep; which question, to my eternal shame as ahousewife, I have never yet been enabled to answer, havingnever ascertained up to this moment whether there areseven cows or eleven. The fact is, I take no delight incaws, and have happily no concern with them! (Mrs. Car-lyles Early Letters, p. 137). Mr. Froude states, and insists on it over and over again,that Craigenputtock was the dreariest spot in all the Britishdominions. Mrs. Carlyle writes: Indeed, Craigenputtockis nonsuch frightful place as the people call it. . ThesoUtude is not so irksome as one might think. If we are cutoff from good society, we are also deUvered from bad; . .I read and work, and talk with my husband and neverweary. {Ib
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