Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

;238 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOXIVChelsea, London : August 19, 1845.My dear Sir,—Once more I am to trespass on yourgood nature for a little bit of service you can do me.A distinguished lady here, the lady Harriet Baring,has seen lately, in the house of some country friend,an ' Illustrated Life of Frederick the Great,' ^ justimported from Germany, a copy of which she is verydesirous to possess. It is * in one stout volume 8vo,the woodcuts are beautiful '; recently publishedwhere, by whom, or of whose authorship I cannottell! This is somewhat like the Interpretmg ofNebukadnezzar's Dream, the Dream itself not beinggiven : however, I hope your sagacity will be able todivine what is meant. It is evidently some ' Pracht-Buch ' for Drawing room Tables :'Leben Friedrichs,mit Holzschnitten ';—the Woodcuts, moreover (orperhaps they were not ivood-cuts at all) were * in themanner of Eatsch.' Does this define it for you?Wood-cuts or not, they were interspersed among theLetterpress,— part of a page printed, part engraved.If you can find with certainty what Book it is, andget me a Copy well bound, and send it over by theBerlin and Fleet-Street Bookseller, I shall be really'Evidently is meant Geschichte Friedrichs des Grossen. Geschriebenvon Franz Kugler. Gezeichnet von Adolf Menzel. Leipzig,1840.