But whatever allowance has to be made for them, the strength remains.

It is, perhaps, the secret of Carlyle's imperishable greatness as a stimulating and uplifting power that, beyond any other modern writer, he makes us feel with him the supreme claims of the moral life, the meaning of our own responsibilities, the essential spirituality of things, the indestructible reality of religion.

If he had thus a special message for his own generation, that message has surely not lost any of its value for ours.

"Put Carlyle in your pocket," says Dr.Hal to Paul Kelver on his starting out in life.

"He is not all the voices, but he is the best maker of men I know." And as a maker of men, Carlyle's appeal to us is as great as ever.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON.
_Life of Schiller_ (_Lond.