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Monckton Milnes, he gave the following account to his friend James Redpath:-- I was at Sydney Smith's breakfast-table one morning, with perhaps a dozen others, when he suddenly asked me how English literary reputations stood in America. We sometimes presume, said Mr. Sumner, to rejudge your judgments; to refuse a reputation where you give one, and to bestow a name where you withhold it. An example! An example! exclaimed Mr. Smith in his caressing style. Here I was, a young Yankee Doodle, to use a phrase of Mr. Carlyle, at the table of the greatest wit, probably, that England ever saw, singled out by him to maintain a position which I had advanced. But I did not feel inclined to let the matter go by default, so I said at once:-- Carlyle! Carlyle! said Smith, we don't know him here: what have you got to say of Carlyle? I said, I am not an indiscriminate admirer of Carlyle; I find much in him to criticise: but I have always been impressed by his genius; he seems to