On the Choice of Books

by Thomas Carlyle

Baillie, Joanna, her Metrical Legends, 13.
Bentley, Richard, the last of English scholars, 162.
Black, Adam, 191.
Boehm, Mr., his medallion and statue of Carlyle, 116, 120, 121.
Braidwood Testimonial, 85, 86.
Brewster, Sir David, his Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 10, 11;
writes a Preface to Carlyle's Translation of Legendre, 13;
presides at Carlyle's installation as Rector of Edinburgh
University, 90, 93, 96.
Buchanan, George, 47.
Buller, Charles, Carlyle becomes tutor to, 15;
his death, 74;
Carlyle's tribute to, 75-80.
Burns, Robert, 67.

Cameron, Mrs., her photograph of Carlyle, 120.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, Goethe's verses to, 20;
described by Margaret Fuller, 68, 69;
death of, 109;
funeral, 110;
inscription on her tombstone, 111.
Carlyle, Thomas, birth and parentage, 8;
early studies, 9;
school-mastering, 9-10;
first attempts in literature, 10-14;
Buller tutorship, 15;
German translations, 15-17;
his marriage, 17;
life at Craigenputtoch, 17-18;
removes to London, 25;
his affection for Leigh Hunt, 26;
letter to Major Richardson, 40;
his Lectures, 45;
advice to a young man, 54;
defence of Mazzini, 59;
visit to Rugby, 63;
his letter to Sir William Napier, 81;
the Edinburgh Rectorship and Address, 87-109;
death of his wife, 109;
on the Jamaica insurrection, 112;
latest writings, 115;
medal and address, 116;
closing years of life, 117;
his Reminiscences, 118;
portraits of, 119.
Carlyle, John A., his Translation of Dante, 98;
death of, 117.
Chelsea, old memories of, 25;
Carlyle fixes his residence there, 25, 26.
Collins's Peerage, 152.
Craigenputtoch, 17;
description of by Carlyle, in a letter to Goethe, 18.
Cromwell, Oliver, Letters and Speeches, 68;
his Protectorate, 145
Cunningham, Allan, on old age, 44:

Demosthenes, 166.
De Quincey, Thomas, his critique on Wilhelm Meister, 16
D'Orsay, Count, his Portrait of Carlyle, 119.
Dumfries, 18.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his visit to Carlyle at Craigenputtoch, 21;
his Essays introduced to the English public by Carlyle, 52;
Margaret Fuller's letter to him, 64.
Eyre, Edward John, Carlyle's defence of, 112.

Ferguson's Roman History, 140.
Fichte, 37.
Forster, John, 200.
Fraser's Magazine, 20, 22, 115, 119.
Frederick the Great, History of, 81, 87.
French Revolution, History of the, 38.
Froude, James Anthony, 118, 200.
Fuller, Margaret, her Letter to Emerson describing Carlyle's
conversation, 65-73.

German Romance, 16.
Gibbon, 23.
Goethe, his Faust, 13;
his Wilhelm Meister translated by Carlyle, 15;
Carlyle's letters to him, 18;
writes an Introduction to the German translation of Carlyle's Life
of Schiller, 20;
his verses to Mrs. Carlyle, ib.;
Wilhelm Meister's Travels, 170-171;
Verses by him, quoted, 186, 187.
Grant, James, quoted, 46, 48-52.

Hannay, James, on Carlyle, 47.
Heyne, his Tibullus and Virgil, 162-163.
Hoffmann, Carlyle's translation from, 16.
Horne, R.H., quoted, 27, 28.
Houghton, Lord, breakfast party at his house, 38.
Hunt, Leigh, invited by Carlyle to visit him in Dumfriesshire. 26;
settles at Chelsea, ib.;
characteristic anecdote, 27;
leaves Chelsea, 28;
Carlyle's eulogium on, 29;
Carlyle's opinion
of his Autobiography, 33;
quoted, 35, 46.

Ireland, Carlyle's papers on, 74.
Irving, Edward, 10, 40.

Jeffrey, Lord, his critique on Wilhelm Meister, 16;
Carlyle's Reminiscences of, 119.
Johnson, Samuel, advice as to reading, 55.

Kirkcaldy, 10.
Knox, John, an ancestor of Carlyle's wife, 17, 196;
grim humour of, 47;
the portraits of, 115;
belongs to the select of the earth, 142-143;
his History of the Reformation, 184-185.