I shall be glad to hear what you think about the book.

From you I shall get the friendliest judgment that the circumstances admit of, and if you are dissatisfied I shall know what to look for from others.

The last two hundred pages are the most interesting.

The drift of the whole is that Carlyle was by far the most remarkable man of his time--that five hundred years hence he will be the only one of us all whose name will be so much as remembered, while perhaps he may be one who will have reshaped in a permanent form the religious belief of mankind.

Therefore he ought to be known exactly as he was.