Life of John Sterling. Томас Карлейль

seen occupied hitherto with mere Ethnicism, Radicalism and revolutionary tumult, but hungering all along for something higher and better, was sure to be eagerly welcomed and imbibed, and could not fail to produce important fermentations there. Fermentations; important new directions, and withal important new perversions, in the spiritual life of this man, as it has since done in the lives of so many. Here then is the new celestial manna we were all in quest of? This thrice-refined pabulum of transcendental moonshine? Whoso eateth thereof,—yes, what, on the whole, will he probably grow to?

      1

      John Sterling's Essays and Tales, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848.

      2

      Commons Journals, iv. 15 (l0th January, 1644-5); and again v. 307 &c., 498 (18th September, 1647-15th March, 1647-8).

      3

      Literary Chronicle, New Series; London, Saturday, 21 June, 1828, Art. II.

      4

      "The Letters of Vetus from March 10th to May 10th, 1812" (second edition, London, 1812): Ditto, "Part III., with a Preface and Notes" (ibid.

1

John Sterling's Essays and Tales, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848.

2

Commons Journals, iv. 15 (l0th January, 1644-5); and again v. 307 &c., 498 (18th September, 1647-15th March, 1647-8).

3

Literary Chronicle, New Series; London, Saturday, 21 June, 1828, Art. II.

4

"The Letters of Vetus from March 10th to May 10th, 1812" (second edition, London, 1812): Ditto, "Part III., with a Preface and Notes" (ibid. 1814).

5

Here, in a Note, is the tragic little Register, with what indications for us may lie in it:—

     (l.) Robert Sterling died, 4th June, 1815, at Queen Square, in his fourth year (John being now nine).

     (2.) Elizabeth died, 12th March, 1818, at Blackfriars Road, in her second year.

     (3.) Edward, 30th March, 1818 (same place, same month and year), in his ninth.

     (4.) Hester, 21st July, 1818 (three months later), at Blackheath, in her eleventh.

     (5.) Catherine Hester Elizabeth, 16th January, 1821, in Seymour Street.

6

History of the English Universities. (Translated from the German.)

7

Mrs. Anthony Sterling, very lately Miss Charlotte Baird.

8

Biography, by Hare, pp. xvi-xxvi.