of uncommon delicacy,
an honest and unflinching investigator of received opinions, a
philosophic inquirer--DE QUINCEY has departed from us full of years,
and left no successor to his rank. The exquisite finish of his style,
with the scholastic vigour of his logic, form a combination which
centuries may never reproduce, but which every generation should study
as one of the marvels of English Literature.'

JAMES HOGG.

_London, February, 1890_.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

PREFACE V

A BRIEF APPRAISAL OF THE GREEK LITERATURE
IN ITS FOREMOST-PRETENSIONS 23

THE GERMAN LANGUAGE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF KANT 91

MORAL EFFECTS OF REVOLUTIONS 130

PREFIGURATIONS OF REMOTE EVENTS 132

MEASURE OF VALUE 134

LETTER IN REPLY TO HAZLITT CONCERNING THE
MALTHUSIAN DOCTRINE OF POPULATION 141

THE SERVICES OF MR. RICARDO TO THE SCIENCE
OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 154

EDUCATION, AND CASE OF APPEAL 160

ABSTRACT OF SWEDENBORGIANISM 215

SKETCH OF PROFESSOR WILSON 225

THE LAKE DIALECT 265

STORMS IN ENGLISH HISTORY 275

THE ENGLISH IN INDIA 298

ON NOVELS (WRITTEN IN A LADY'S ALBUM) 354

DE QUINCEY'S PORTRAIT 357

A BRIEF APPRAISAL OF THE GREEK LITERATURE IN ITS FOREMOST PRETENSIONS:

_By way of Counsel to Adults who are hesitating as to the
Propriety of Studying the Greek Language with a view to the
Literature; and by way of consolation to those whom
circumstances have obliged to lay aside that plan._

No. I.

No question has been coming up at intervals for reconsideration more
frequently than that which respects the comparative pretensions of
Pagan (viz. Greek and Roman) Literature on the one side, and Modern
(that is, the Literature of Christendom) on the other. Being brought
uniformly before unjust tribunals--that is, tribunals corrupted and
bribed by their own vanity--it is not wonderful that this great
question should have been stifled and overlaid with peremptory
decrees, dogmatically cutting the knot rather than skilfully untying
it, as often as it