The "Titan" is Jean Paul's longest--and the author meant it, and held it, to be his greatest and best--romance; and his public (including Mr. Carlyle) seems, on the whole, to have sustained his opinion. He was ten years about it, and his other works, written in the interval, were preparatory and tributary to this. As to the _general_ meaning of the title there can hardly, on the whole, be any doubt. It does _not_ refer, as the division into Jubilees and Cycles might, to be sure, suggest to one on first approaching it, to the titanic scale and scope of the work, but to the titanic violence against which it is aimed.…
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