traits to enlarge on the issues between them. The Car-
lyles were my sitters, not Froude's critics nor Froude.
With this hint, the book may be considered, I trust,
without distractions.

Since portraiture, not biography, was intended, a strict
narration has been spared, and much detail happily
omitted, for there is far too much! Her letters and his
writings are only elements in the design. Even quotations
are strictly limited. Nothing, therefore, would please me
more than that this study should be called, in either sense
of that ambiguous phrase, a work of imagination. In
spite of writings based upon the contrary assumption, the
story of Jane Welsh and of Thomas Carlyle seems to me,
in essentials, to be the story of many marriages. In so
far as it is of universal interest, this is because their
experience was not extraordinary.

O. B.

TO the following authorities and publishers
sincere thanks are given for their permission to
quote from copyright works:

Mr. Alexander Carlyle has kindly allowed the citations
from the Love Letters and Letters and Memorials, pub-
lished by The Bodley Head; M essrs. Longmans, Green
and Co. those from Froude; Mr. D. A. Wilson permission
to draw upon the, at present issued five, volumes of his
Life of Carlyle, published by Messrs. Kegan Paul. Full
particulars of these volumes and their publishers will
be found in the Short Bibliography on pages 313-14,
together with others.

In so large, and often visited, a quarry quotations,
often met in many places, can be confused. Should any
attribution have miscarried, I trust that this note, the
references in the text, and the particulars in the Biblio-
graphy will be accepted as sufficient acknowledgment.

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