such a testimonial from the German sage, known to them so dimly, and perhaps in ways that made them suspicious of him, one’s impression is that, if they had been thinking of appointing Carlyle, the presentation of this testimonial would have been likely to stop them. Never having been presented, it can have done no harm. Footnote 46: Review, in _The Scots Observer_ (now _The National Observer_), 15th December 1888, of “_Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq._ Edited by Alexander Allardyce. With a Memoir by the Rev. W. K. R. Bedford. In two volumes. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.” Footnote 47: Lockhart, in his quotation from the Diary as here given, omitted a line or two. The complete text may be now read in Mr. Douglas’s edition of the entire Diary in 1890. Footnote 48: This is the “General Sharpe” from whom Carlyle’s father had a lease of his farm of Mainhill from 1815 onwards, and from whom Carlyle himself rented the house and grounds of Hoddam Hill for his one year’s experiment of farming-life in 1825–26. See the _Reminiscences_ for the story of Carlyle’s quarrel, and then his father’s also, with their landlord, caused mainly by his “arbitrary high-handed temper, used to a rather prostrate style of obedience, and not finding it here.” Both father and son gave up their leases in 1826, the father protesting “We can live without Sharpe and the whole Sharpe creation,” and saying he would “rather go to Jerusalem seeking farms, and die without finding one,” than remain under such a landlord. Footnote 49: From _The Scotsman_ of 18th November 1882; where it appeared as a review of “_The Book-Hunter_, etc. By John Hill Burton, D.C.L., LL.D., Author of _A History of Scotland_, _The Scot Abroad_, _The Reign of Queen Anne_, etc. A New Edition: with a Memoir of the Author. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London.” Footnote 50: From _Macmillan’s Magazine_ for February 1883. The main portion of the paper was delivered as a lecture in the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday, October 24, 1882; and there are reasons for retaining the familiarity of the lecture form in the reprint. Footnote 51: From _The Scotsman_ of 8th and 9th November 1889. This paper is purposely placed last in the volume, as containing necessarily a recapitulation of portions of the matter of some of the preceding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _In Two Volumes, post 8vo, cloth, 888 pages, containing 102 Illustrations and 4 coloured Plans, price 25s._ THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT ROME BY J. HENRY MIDDLETON, SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART, DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, AND FELLOW OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE