It forms a most useful and instructive Guide to the Carlyle Country, and will appeal to old Carlylean readers by its careful grouping of biographical events around the places with which they are inextricably identified.
It also serves the purposes of an Introduction to Thomas Carlyle in the case of new Readers and Students of his Writings.
The Book is divided into Twenty-eight short Chapters and an Epilogue, in which the historical, physical, social, and religious features of the Carlyle Country are reviewed, and Carlyle traced from place to place, from incident to incident, in his “old familiar birth-land”; the whole showing, once more, what a Great Story is that of Carlyle’s ascent from the peasant’s cottage to the throne of literature in the Victorian age.
The author accepts Carlyle for a modern Prophet; for one of the Great Spiritual Teachers and Leaders of the last century; and Carlyle’s prophetic mind is traced in this Work to its original fountain and home in the Burgher Secession, under the Erskines, as it invaded the Carlyle Country in the eighteenth century.
The Book is illustrated by nearly one hundred views—places and portraits—all having some direct relation to the Carlyles in the Carlyle Country.
A valuable Carlyle Chronology is appended, together with an Index and Map.
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