IV. NEW-ENGLAND EDITORS 'The Editors have been induced, by the express desire of many persons, to collect the following sheets out of the ephemeral pamphlets1 in which they first appeared, under the conviction that they contain in themselves the assurance of a longer date. 'The Editors have no expectation that this little Work will have a sudden and general popularity. They will not undertake, as there is no need, to justify the gay costume in which the Author delights to dress his thoughts, or the German idioms with which he has sportively sprinkled his pages. It is his humour to advance the gravest speculations upon the gravest topics in a quaint and burlesque style. If his masquerade offend any of his audience, to that degree that they will not hear what he has to say, it may chance to draw others to listen to his wisdom; and what work of imagination can hope to please all ? But we will venture to remark that the distaste excited by these peculiarities in some readers is greatest at first, and is soon forgotten; and that the foreign dress and aspect of the Work are quite superficial, and cover a genuine Saxon heart. We believe, no book has been published for many years, written in a more sincere style of idiomatic English, or which dicovers an equal mastery over all the riches of the language. The Author makes ample amends for the occasional eccentricity of his genius, not only by frequent bursts of pure splendour, but by the wit and sense which never fail him. But what will chiefly commend the Book to the discerning reader is the manifest design of the work, which is, a Criticism upon the Spirit of the Age-we had almost said, of the hour-in which we live; exhibiting in the most just and novel light the present aspects of Religion, Politics, Literature, Arts, and Social Life. Under all his gaiety the Writer has an earnest meaning, and discovers an insight into the manifold wants and tendencies of human nature, which is very rare among our popular authors. The philanthropy and the purity of moral sentiment, which inspire the work, will find their way to the heart of every lover of virtue.'-Preface to Sartor Resartus: Boston, 1835, 1837. London, 30th June 1838. SUNT, FUERUNT VEL FUERE. Fraser's (London) Magazine, 1833-4. INDEX TO SARTOR ACTION the true end of Man, 126, 129. Afflictions, merciful, 153. Ambition, 83. Apprenticeships, 97. Aprons, use and significance of, 83. Baphometic Fire-baptism, 136. Battle-field, a, 139. Battle, Life-, our, 69; with Folly and Sin, Being, the boundless Phantasmagoria of, Belief and Opinions, 155, 156. Bible of Universal History, 142, 155. Blumine, 110; her environment, 111; cha- Childhood, happy season of, 71; early in- Christian Faith, a good Mother's simple Christian Love, 151, 153. Clothes, not a spontaneous growth of the gible and mystic influences of Clothes, Codification, 53. Courtesy, due to all men, 190. Dandy, mystic significance of the, 217; growing Drudgery, 227. Dilettantes and Pedants, 55; patrons of Drudgery contrasted with Dandyism, 223; Editor's first acquaintance with Teufels- 247 Society, 201. Heuschrecke and his biographic docu- Teufelsdröckh watch-tower, 15, 26; first | Hero-worship, the corner-stone of all Education, influence of early, 75; insig- Emblems, all visible things, 57. Eternity, looking through Time, 16, 58, ments, 8; his loose, zigzag, thin-vis- History, all-inweaving tissue of, 15; by Hope, this world emphatically the place Horse, his own tailor, 43. Ideal, the, exists only in the Actual, 156, Facts, engraved Hierograms, for which Imposture, statistics of, 89. 178. Imagination. See Fantasy. Immortality, a glimpse of, 208. the fewest have the key, 161. Independence, foolish parade of, 186, 199. Faith, the one thing needful, 129. Indifference, centre of, 136. gate of man, 115, 175. genius and dulness, 75. Fashionable Novels, 221. Inspiration, perennial, 155, 167, 201. Fatherhood, 68. Invention, 31, 127. Fire, and vital fire, 56, 136. Fantasy, the true Heaven-gate or Hell- Infant intuitions and acquirements, 71; Feebleness, the true misery, 131. Force, universal presence of, 56. and earthly independence, 166. Fraser's Magazine, 7, 242. Friendship, now obsolete, 94; an incre- Future, organic filaments of the, 194. Genius, the world's treatment of, 100. Goethe's inspired melody, 202. Habit, how, makes dullards of us all, 44. Happiness, the whim of, 152. Invisible, the, Nature the visible Garment Irish, the, Poor-Slave, 226. Jesus of Nazareth, our divinest Symbol, King, our true, chosen for us in Heaven, Kingdom, a man's, 96. Labour, sacredness of, 181. Life, Human, picture of, 15, 121, 136, 149; Light the beginning of all Creation, 157. Louis xv., ungodly age of, 131. Love, what we emphatically name, 108; Milton, 131. Phoenix Death-birth, 189, 194, 214 Saints, living Communion of, 197, 202. Saturn or Chronos, 103. Miracles, significance of, 203, 209. Mother's, a, religious influence, 79. Mountain scenery, 122. Mystery, all-pervading domain of, 54. Nakedness and hypocritical Clothing, 44, Names, significance and influence of, 68, Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 142. 41, 52; not an Aggegate but a Whole, Necessity, brightened into Duty, 78. Nothingness of life, 146. Obedience, the lesson of, 79, 198. Orpheus, 209. Over-population, 180. Own, conservation of a man's, 159. Paradise and Fig-leaves, 29; prospective Passivity and Activity, 78, 129. Scarecrow, significance of the, 49. Sceptical goose-cackle, 54. School education, insignificance of, 82, 84; Science, the Torch of, 1; the Scientific Secrecy, benignant efficacies of, 174. Society founded upon Cloth, 40, 48, 50; Solitude. See Silence. Sorrow-pangs of Self-deliverance, 121, 127, Space and Time, the Dream-Canvas upon Spartan wisdom, 183. Speculative intuition, 40. See German. Sphinx-riddle, the Universe a, 102. Stupidity, blessings of, 130. Style, varieties of, 57. Past, the, inextricably linked with the Stealing, 159, 182. Present 136,; for ever extant, 207. Paupers, what to do with, 183. Peace-Era, the much-predicted, 140. Peasant Saint, the, 182. Pelham, and the Whole Duty of Dandies, 222. Perseverance, law of, 189. Person, mystery of a. 51, 107, 109, 190. Suicide, 133. Sunset, 74, 123. Swallows, migrations and coöperative in stincts of, 76. 135; placid indifference, 136; a Hyper- Unbelief, era of, 91, 119; Doubt darken- Universities, 88. View-hunting and diseased Self-conscious Voltaire, 134; the Parisian Divinity, 200. War, 138. extrinsic and intrinsic, 177; superan- Tailors, symbolic significance of, 230. first interview with Blumine, 112; in- of, 54. Words, slavery to, 42; Word-mongering Young Men and Maidens, 102, 104. |