in loose, superficial portions of it have become a great deal
louder, and not any wiser, than they formerly used to be.

"At any rate, though much averse, at any time, and at this time in
particular, to figure on committees, or run into public noises without
call, I do at once, and feel that as a British citizen I should, and
must, make you welcome to my name for your committee, and to whatever
good it can do you. With the hope only that many other British men, of
far more significance in such a matter, will at once or gradually do
the like; and that, in fine, by wise effort and persistence, a blind
and disgraceful act of public injustice may be prevented; and an
egregrious folly as well--not to say, for none can say or compute,
what a vital detriment throughout the British Empire, in such an
example set to all the colonies and governors the British Empire has!

"Farther service, I fear, I am not in a state to promise, but the
whole weight of my conviction and good wishes is with you; and if
other service possible to me do present itself, I shall not want for
willingness in case of need. Enclosed is my mite of contribution to
your fund."I have the honour to be yours truly,

"T. CARLYLE."

"To HAMILTON HUME, Esq.,
"Hon. Sec. 'Eyre Defence Fund.'"

In August, 1867, Carlyle broke silence again with an utterance in the
style of the _Latter-Day Pamphlets_, entitled "Shooting Niagara: and
After?" published anonymously (though everyone, of course, knew it to
be his) in _Macmillan's Magazine_. Shortly afterwards it was reprinted
as a separate pamphlet, with additions, and with the author's name on
the title-page.

In February, 1868, Carlyle wrote some Recollections of Sir William
Hamilton, as a contribution to Professor Veitch's Memoir of that
accomplished metaphysician.

In November, 1870, he addressed a long and very remarkable letter
to the _Times_, on the French-German war, which is reprinted in the
latest edition of his collected Miscellanies.

Two years later (November, 1872) he added a very beautiful Supplement
to the People's Edition of his "Life of Schiller," founded on Saupe's
"Schiller and his Father's Household," and other more recent books on
Schiller that had appeared in Germany.

His last literary productions were a series of papers on "The Early
Kings of Norway," and an Essay on "The Portraits of John Knox," which
appeared, in instalments, in _Fraser's Magazine_, in the first four
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