jsT.25.] TO R. W. EMERSON. 73
April number of the Transcendentalist quar terly.
TO R. W. EMERSON (AT NEW YORK).
CONCORD, February 20, 1843.
MY DEAR FRIEND, I have read Mr. Lane s review, and can say, speaking for this world and for fallen man, that "it is good for us." As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails ; but if I go and read elsewhere, I say it is good, far better than any notice Mr. Alcott has received, or is likely to receive from another quarter. It is at any rate " the other side," which Boston needs to hear. I do not send it to you, because time is precious, and because I think you would accept it, after all. After speaking briefly of the fate of Goethe and Carlyle in their own countries, he says, " To Emerson in his own circle is but slowly accorded a worthy response ; and Alcott, al most utterly neglected," etc. I will strike out what relates to yourself, and correcting some verbal faults, send the rest to the printer with Lane s initials.
The catalogue needs amendment, I think. It wants completeness now. It should consist of such books only as they would tell Mr. [F. H.] Hedge and [Theodore] Parker they had got ;
