Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

;VARNHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEARS 1837-57 219are gathered here without trouble, and Isay always,you can at worst burn them. From time to timewhen such an object turns upon my path, I will not failto lift it ; to send it over sea, to the man of all livingmen who can extract most meaning out of it, for hisown behalf and ours !Since the finishing of that Book, I have beenreposing myself with various imaginary kinds ofwork ;—among others a daily spell at reading Danish,with a view to get acquainted with the old Norse world.Miiller's 'Sagabibliothek,' Ihad hoped, was in German;but, alas, it proves to be in Danish ; and I have tolearn that new dialect first, which turns out to be analmost ridiculous mixture of Scotch, and brokenDeutsch, artfully disguised ; the whole broken down,seemingly soas to give the speech-organs a minimum oftrouble ! I get into it without difficulty ; but findMiiller unluckily to be no perfect oracle after all.* Nials Saga ' in Icelandic is also here ; and theabstract of it in Miiller gives me great curiosity topenetrate into a sight of it, and of the strange oldworld it belongs to. We are without due helps inEnglish for introducing ourselves to old Scandinavianor do I find hitherto in German any effectual noticeof such. Do you know the magazine Bragur ' ' ; andwhat is the worth of it ? Has anybody written ortranslated, or in any way made accessible a solid workon that old province of things, in German speech ?Geyer's Swedish History in its German dress is