inguished 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, Teufelsdroeckh 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 not he 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?

APPENDIX

TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS

This questionable little Book was undoubtedly written among
the mountain solitudes, in 1831; but, owing to impediments
natural and accidental, could not, for seven years more,
appear as a Volume in England;--and had at last to clip itself
in pieces, and be content to struggle out, bit by bit, in some
courageous _Magazine_ that offered. Whereby now, to certain
idly curious readers, and even to myself till I make study,
the insignificant but at last irritating question, What its
real history and chronology are, is, if not insoluble,
considerably involved in haze.

To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two
American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly
prefixed, under the title '_Testimonies of Authors_,' some
straggle of real documents, which, now that I find it again,
sets the matter into clear light and sequence;--and shall
here, for removal of idle stumbling-blocks and nugatory
guessings from the path of every reader, be repr