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Title: The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols)

Author: Thomas De Quincey

Editor: Alexander H. Japp

Release Date: June 30, 2008 [EBook #25940]

Language: English

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THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS

OF

THOMAS DE QUINCEY

_EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MSS., WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES_

BY

ALEXANDER H. JAPP LL.D., F.R.S.E.

_VOLUME II._

LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1893

[_All rights reserved_]

CONVERSATION AND COLERIDGE

With Other Essays

_CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, IMAGINATIVE AND
HUMOROUS_

BY

THOMAS DE QUINCEY

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1893

PREFACE.

All that is needful for me to say by way of Preface is that, as in the
case of the first volume, I have received much aid from Mrs. Baird Smith
and Miss De Quincey, and that Mr. J. R. McIlraith has repeated his
friendly service of reading the proofs.

ALEXANDER H. JAPP.

LONDON,
_March 1st, 1893._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

I. CONVERSATION AND S. T. COLERIDGE 7

II. MR. FINLAY'S HISTORY OF GREECE 60

III. THE ASSASSINATION OF CAESAR 91

IV. CICERO (SUPPLEMENTARY TO PUBLISHED ESSAY) 95

V. MEMORIAL CHRONOLOGY 107

VI. CHRYSOMANIA; OR, THE GOLD-FRENZY IN ITS PRESENT STAGE 157

VII. DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH PEERAGE 169

VIII. THE ANTI-PAPAL MOVEMENT