11 October 1875 – 17 October 1875

C.'s. Walk with him to Piccadilly. Goethe's Spriiche very hard to translate. * I found, when I was translating from the German writers that each man has a tune : Goethe has his ; Richter has his, and, when I got into it, all went on well. That was the pleasantest kind of work I ever did. I could do it in any mood — like basket-making. Goethe's style is by far the most refined and most difficult to render.' Carlyle's intellectual position and attitude are, from his own point of view, rightly chosen and unassailable. He is not a learned man in the scholastic sense, being anything but a purist in classical matters. He neither had, nor cared to have, more than a rough working knowledge of Greek and Latin, but he never let any quotation or reference pass, if he cared to look at it at all, without getting at the real substance of it. C. — ' I have often been invited to places with the temptation of meeting Manning ; but he is perhaps of all human creatures the one I would most decidedly refuse to meet. If we did, it might possibly end in actual blows, old as I am.'