Black Electricities
John Sutherland, 30 October 1997
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Vol. XXV: January-December 1850
edited by Clyde de L. Ryals and K.J. Fielding.
Duke, 364 pp., £52, September 1997,0 8223 1986 1 Show More
edited by Clyde de L. Ryals and K.J. Fielding.
Duke, 364 pp., £52, September 1997,
Reminiscences
by Thomas Carlyle, edited by K.J. Fielding and Ian Campbell.
Oxford, 481 pp., £7.99, September 1997,0 19 281748 5 Show More
by Thomas Carlyle, edited by K.J. Fielding and Ian Campbell.
Oxford, 481 pp., £7.99, September 1997,
“... justifies his recall to current political debate, if only to induce a necessary modesty. K.J. Fielding and Ian Campbell, the British side of the joint Anglo-American team producing the letters, have taken time off to edit Carlyle’s Reminiscences. They have stripped away the varnish laid on by previous editors and reinserted what earlier prudence ... ”
