Abstract
As the Froude-Carlyle controversy has taken a medical turn, it will not be out of place to refer to the matter in these columns. It will be remembered that about twenty years ago Froude, in editing Carlyle's reminiscences and letters, made Carlyle appear as a cruel and inconsiderate husband and his wife as a martyr, at least it so appeared to one side in this controversy. The whole question once so earnestly discussed has again been brought before the public by the appearance of a series of letters of Mrs. Carlyle.<sup>1</sup>Not the least interesting part of these two volumes is the long introduction by a well-known London medical man, Sir James Crichton-Browne. With wonderfully vigorous English he defends Carlyle against the charges of cruelty and neglect, and denounces Froude as an incompetent editor who was not only careless, but who maliciously misrepresents in order to prove his point, viz.,
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