The edition of Scott, which was his own favorite, was issued in Edinburgh in forty-eight volumes, from 1829 to 1833. Scott wrote new prefaces and notes for this edition. Another is the Border edition, with introductory essays and notes by Andrew Lang (forty-eight volumes, 1892-1894). The recent editions of Scott are numerous for, despite all criticisms of his careless style, he holds his own with the popular favorites of the day. Of his poems a good edition was edited by William Minto in two volumes, in 1888. _The Life of Scott_ by his son-in-law, J.G. Lockhart, is the standard work. This was originally issued in seven volumes but Lockhart was induced to condense it into one volume, which gives about all that the ordinary reader cares for. This may be found in Everyman's library. Scott's _Journal_ and his _Familiar Letters_, both edited by David Douglas, contain much interesting material. The best short lives of Scott are by R.H. Hutton in the English Men of Letters series and by George Saintsbury in the Famous Scots series. Among the best sketches and estimates of Scott are by Andrew Lang in _Letters to Dead Authors_; Sir Leslie Stephen in _Hours in a Library_; Conan Doyle in _Through the Magic Door_; Walter Bagehot in _Literary Studies_; Stevenson in _Gossip on Romance_ and in _Memoirs and Portraits_, and S.R. Crockett in _The Scott Country_. _Abbotsford_, by Washington Irving, gives the best personal sketches of Scott at home. CARLYLE Carlyle's _Essays_ and his _French Revolution_, upon which his fame will chiefly rest, are issued in many editions. It would be well if his longer works could be condensed into single volumes by competent hands. A revised edition of his _Frederick_ was issued in one short volume. For the facts of Carlyle's life, the best book is his own _Reminiscences issued_ in 1881 and edited by Froude, who was his literary executor with the full power to publish or suppress. Froude had so great an antipathy to what Carlyle himself called "mealy-mouthed biography" that he erred on the side of extreme frankness. In _Thomas Carlyle--The First Forty Tears of His Life_, _Life in London_ and _Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle_, Froude permitted the publication of many malicious comments by Carlyle on his famous contemporaries. These and morbid expressions of remorse by Carlyle over imaginary neglect of his wife caused a great revulsion of public sentiment and the fame of Carlyle was clouded for ten years. Finally, after much acrimonious controversy, the truth prevailed and Carlyle came into his own again.