. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. ward King and ArthurHallam. is chiefly remembered through the workof a greater man. After a trip in the fall of1851. with the Brownings, to France, where hemet the chief literary celebrities of the time—and passed unfavorable comment on them as onall affairs French—he settled down to the plan-ning of the History of Frederick II. On thepreparation for this work and the compositionof it he was engaged for the next 13 years. Hisstudy was indefa
. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. ward King and ArthurHallam. is chiefly remembered through the workof a greater man. After a trip in the fall of1851. with the Brownings, to France, where hemet the chief literary celebrities of the time—and passed unfavorable comment on them as onall affairs French—he settled down to the plan-ning of the History of Frederick II. On thepreparation for this work and the compositionof it he was engaged for the next 13 years. Hisstudy was indefatigable and he made two tripsto Germany, in 1852 and 1858, to study the bat-tlefields of Frederick. In 1850 the first twovolumes were published with great success, thethird in 1862. the fourth in 1864, and the fifthand sixth in 1865. During the composition hehad done practically no side work: a somewhatunintelligent dialogue. Ilias Americana inNuce, on the American War, and his Prinzen-raub are the only pieces. The compilation of Frederick marks theclimax of Carlyles life. It won for him recogni-tion in England as the foremost of prose writers,. THOMAS CARLYLE. CARMACK — CARMAGNOLA and in Germany, too, his fame was naturallygreat. Even the Scotch decided to honor aprophet of their own country: he was electedLord Rector of Edinburgh University, and inthe spring of 1866 delivered the inaugural ad-dress, on the Reading of Books. While on histrip he received news of the death of , which, in spite of their disagreements,was a severe blow to him and may be said tomark the beginning of his decline. He was over70 years of age and the labor of Frederick* hadleft him worn and weary. Thereafter he wroteonly three books of comparative Niagara—and After,* of the type ofPast and Present, the Early Kings of Nor-way, of the hero type, and Reminiscences ofJane Carlyle and of Jeffrey and Edward Irving,*written in the months following the death ofhis wife, b
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