DE QUINCEY'S "CONFESSIONS OF

AN OPIDM-EATER." Pneu 3s. 6d.

As De Quincey is remarkable, even among- English writers, for discursiveness and allasiveness, and as his writings, with ail their excellencies in style and thought, are not quite free from blemishes, it ^s been theobject of the présent édition to give the student ail necessary help with regard to difficulties in language and phraseology, and at tbo same time to give a caution against the dangers of slavisb imitation and indiscriminating admiration. — Préface.