In the end, however, Froude voluntarily assigned the copyright to Mrs.Carlyle, who then had possession of the papers, and Mr.Norton's edition appeared in England, published by Macmillan, six years after Carlyle's death.

It proved to be very like the first, though some errors of the press were corrected and also some slips of the pen.

The disputed memoir was not omitted, nor was anything of the slightest interest added by Mr.Norton to the book.

In his Preface he attacked Froude for fulfilling Carlyle's own wishes, of which he seems to have known little or nothing, and, by way of further justification for his interference, he added the following paragraph: "The first edition of the Reminiscences was so carelessly printed as to do grave wrong to the sense.

The punctuation, the use of capitals and italics, in the manuscript, characteristic of Carlyle's method of expression in print, were entirely disregarded.