title: Carly's Wish: A Concepts with Carly Book
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  The Correspondence Of Carlyle And Emerson
  
  
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  # The Correspondence Of Carlyle And Emerson
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
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  IN the deluge of new books, in which so many of us at present are
  
  
  occupied in swimming for our lives, it is not often that there floats
  
  
  toward us a pair of volumes so well deserving to be arrested in their
  
  
  passage as this substantial record of a beautiful and distinguished
  
  
  friendship. The book has a high interest, and we have found it even
  
  
  more absorbing than we expected. It is only superficially, indeed, that
  
  
  it may be spoken of as new; for the persons and things it commemorates
  
  
  have already receded—-so fast we move to-day—-into a kind of
  
  
  historical perspective. The last letter that passed between the
  
  
  correspondents is of the date only of 1872; Carlyle died nine