'their emissaries; or did he go forth voluntarily to their head'quarters to confer with them, and confront them? Reason we have, at least of a negative sort, to believe the Lost still 'living our widowed heart also whispers that ere long he will 'himself give a sign. Otherwise, indeed, must his archives, one 'day, be opened by Authority; where much, perhaps the Palin'genesie itself, is thought to be reposited.'

Thus far the Hofrath; who vanishes, as is his wont, too like an Ignis Fatuus, leaving the dark still darker.

So that Teufelsdrockh's public History were not done, then, or reduced to an even, unromantic tenor; nay, perhaps, the better part thereof were only beginning? We stand in a region of conjectures, where substance has melted into shadow, and one cannot be distinguished from the other. May Time, which solves or suppresses all problems, throw glad light on this also! Our own private conjecture, now amounting almost to certainty, is that, safe-moored in some stillest obscurity, not to lie always still, Teufelsdröckh is actually in London!

Here, however, can the present Editor, with an ambrosial joy as of over-weariness falling into sleep, lay down his pen. Well does he know, if human testimony be worth aught, that to innumerable British readers likewise, this is a satisfying consummation; that innumerable British readers consider him, during these current months, but as an uneasy interruption to their ways of thought and digestion; and indicate so much, not without a certain irritancy and even spoken invective. For which, as for other mercies, ought he not to thank the Upper Powers? To one and all of you, O irritated readers, he, with outstretched arms and open heart, will wave a kind farewell. Thou too, miraculous Entity, who namest thyself YORKE and OLIver, and with thy vivacities and genialities, with thy all too Irish mirth and madness, and odour of palled punch, makest such strange work, farewell; long as thou canst, fare-well! Have we not, in the course of Eternity, travelled some months of our Life-journey in partial sight of one another; have we not existed together, though in a state of quarrel?

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These are, perhaps, the author's best works-containing his best thoughts most vigorously expressed. In the first he develops, in the most explicit style, with illustrations, the idea that lies at the basis of the whole matter-that there is in human nature a principle of reverence for what is truly noble, and manlike, and divine. "Sartor Resartus" is much the best of Carlyle's works-the one which contains the elements of all his subsequent writings, and the true picture of the life of man. It is not only the fullest of matter, but, as we think, the best written, the raciest, compactest Saxon.-Evening Post.