entire man is made known to the reader." Mr. Leslie Stephen closes his paper in a similar way: "In a life of seventy three years, De Quincey read extensively, and thought acutely by fits, ate an enormous quantity of opium, wrote a few pages which revealed new capacities in the language, and provided a good deal of respectable padding for magazines." 1 Brand speaks of De Quincey as an "Essayist, Opiumesser und mehr interessanter als verlässlicher Memoirenschreiber, ein hoch begabter Träumer." It is difficult to deny that there is truth in such criticisms. As applied to much of De Quincey's work there is nothing else to be said. But after all deductions are made there is something in him that is true and original; De Quincey is a writer; at his best, a writer of the first rank; it is as a master of language, of the prose of passion and fancy, that De Quincey deserves a place in English literature. If literature as a thing in itself has any claim to our attention, the De Quincey of the Confessions, the De Quincey of the Suspiria is worthy of the highest respect.

1 Mr. Japp quotes the article by Mr. Stephen (Page's Life II, 146) from the Westminster Review for April 1854. It occurs in the Fortnightly for March 1871. As a whole Mr. Stephen's paper, hard as it is, is the truest estimate of De Quincey that we have read, excepting perhaps the final chapter of Prof. Masson's De Quincey.

2 Brandl, Samuel Taylor Coleridge und die englische Romantik. Berlin 1886, S. 313.

APPENDIX I.

LIST OF DE QUINCEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS ON GERMAN LITERATURE.

John Paul Frederic Richter, with Analects: The Happy Life of a Parish Priest in Sweden; Last Will and Testament

The House of Weeping. London Magazine, Dec. 1821. Reprinted by De Quincey with the exception of the second analect. cf. Works XI, 259 ff.

Death of a German Great Man. London Magazine, April 1823. Reprinted by De Quincey under the title Herder. cf. Works IV, 380 ff.

Mr. Schnackenberger: or Two Masters for One Dog (from the German). London Magazine, May, June 1823. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XII, 314 ff.

The Dice (from the German). London Magazine, Aug. 1823. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XII, 364 ff.

The King of Hayti (from the German). London Magazine, Nov. 1823. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XII, 391 ff.

The Fatal Marksman (from the German). In Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations. London 1823. Vol. III. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XII, 286 ff.

Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrusians and Free-Masons (A Digest from the German). London Magazine, Jan., Feb., March and June 1824. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XIII, 384 ff.

Analects from John Paul Richter: Complaint of the Bird in a Darkened Cage; cf. Jean Paul's Werke (Berlin 1840-42) XXVIII, 123; On the Death of Young Children; ib. XXVIII, 125; The Prophetic Dew-Drops; ib. XXVIII, 140; On Death; Imagination untamed by the Coarser Realities of Life; ib. XI, 218; Satirical Notice of Reviewers; ib. XI, 183; Female Tongues; ib. XI, 214; Forgiveness; ib. VII, 150; Nameless Heroes; ib. XI, 167; The Grandeur of Man in His Littleness; ib. VII, 241; Night; ib. VIII, 49; The Stars; ib. VIII, 50; Martyrdom; ib. VIII, 94; The Quarrels of Friends; Dreaming; Two Divisions of Philosophic Minds; ib. XIII, 310; Dignity of Man in Self-Sacrifice; ib. VII, 152; Fancy; ib. VII, 187; Innate Feeling and Acquisition*; ib. XVII, 94; Use of Opposites*; Deafness *. ib. XV, 168, Anmerkung. London Magazine, Feb. 1824. Reprinted by De Quincey with the exception of the last four. cf. Works XI, 273 ff.

Dream Upon The Universe, by John Paul Richter. London Magazine, March 1824. Reprinted by De Quincey with the other Analects from Richter. cf. Works XI, 290 ff.

Kant on National Character in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and Beautiful. A translation. London Magazine, April 1824. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XIV, 46 ff. Abstract of Swedenborgianism by Immanuel Kant. London Magazine, May 1824. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XIV, 61 ff.

Goethe as Reflected in his Novel of Wilhelm Meister (review of Carlyle's translation of Wilhelm Meister) London Magazine, Aug., Sept. 1824. The second article reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XI, 222 ff. (First paper omitted).

The Incognito, or Count Fitz Hum. Knight's Quarterly Magazine, July 1824. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XII, 417 ff. Walladmor; Sir Walter Scott's German Novel. London Magazine, Oct. 1824. Not reprinted by De Quincey and not included in Masson's Edition.

Walladmor, "Freely translated into German from the

1 Those marked (*) are titles assigued by Prof. Masson.

English of Sir Walter Scott", and now freely translated from the German into English. London 1825, 2 vols.

Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmo-Political Plan. By Immanuel Kant. London Magazine, Oct. 1824. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works IX, 428.

The Love Charm (from the German of Tieck). Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Extra Number 1825. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XII, 434 ff.

Lessing; with a translation from his Laocoon. Blackwood's Magazine, Nov. 1826, Jan. 1827. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XI, 156 ff.

The Last Days of Immanuel Kant. Blackwood's Magazine, Feb. 1827. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works IV, 323 ff.

Toilette of the Hebrew Lady. (A digest from the German.) Original: Hartmann, Die Hebräerin am Pulztische und als Braut, Amsterdam 1809. Blackwood's Magazine, March 1828. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works VI, 152 ff.

Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays. Blackwood's Magazine, Aug. 1830. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works VIII, 84 ff. Kant on the Age of the Earth. Tail's Magazine, Nov. 1833. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XIV, 69 ff.

German Studies and Kant in Particular. Part of the Autobiographic Sketches. Tait's Magazine, June 1836. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works II, 81 ff. Also in Uncollected Writings under the title: The German Language and the Philosophy of Kant. I, 91 ff.

Life of Goethe (1837 or earlier). Encyclopædia Britannica. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works IV, 395 ff.

Life of Schiller, 1838. Encyclopædia Britannica. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works IV, 422 ff.

Walladmor, A Pseudo-Waverley Novel, Tait's Magazine, Sept. 1838. An Article in the Autobiographic Sketches. Not reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XIV, 132 ff.

Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. Review of Fr. Chr. Schlosser's History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth till the overthrow of the French

Empire, with particular reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress. Translated with a preface and notes by D. Davidson, London 1843-52. The review deals only with what concerns English literature. The original was Geschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts und des neunzehnten bis zum Sturz des französischen Kaiserreichs. Tait's Magazine, Sept., Oct. 1847. Reprinted by De Quincey. cf. Works XI, 5 ff.

Anna Louisa. Specimen Translation from Voss in Hexameters, with Letter to Professor W. (Christopher North.) Posth. Works I, 89 ff.

Theory and Practice; Review of Kant's Essay on the Common Saying that such and such a thing may be true in theory, but does not hold good in practice. Posth. Works II, 182 ff.