THE UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS
OF
THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
WITH
A PREFACE AND ANNOTATIONS
BY
JAMES HOGG.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II.
LONDON:
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1890.
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
London & Bungay.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| THE ENGLISH IN CHINA. | 7 |
| SHAKSPERE'S TEXT.—SUETONIUS UNRAVELLED. | 37 |
| HOW TO WRITE ENGLISH. | 55 |
| THE CASUISTRY OF DUELLING. | 65 |
| THE LOVE-CHARM. | 113 |
| LUDWIG TIECK. | 153 |
| LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.—THE HOUSE OF WEEPING. | 160 |
| THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK. | 173 |
| MR. SCHNACKENBERGER; OR, TWO MASTERS FOR ONE DOG. | 279 |
| ANGLO-GERMAN DICTIONARIE. | 348 |
THE ENGLISH IN CHINA.
This Paper, originally written for me in 1857, and published in Titan forJuly of that year, has not appeared in any collective edition of theauthor's works, British or American. It was his closing contribution to aseries of three articles concerning Chinese affairs; prepared when ourtroubles with that Empire seemed to render war imminent. The first two weregiven in Titan for February and April, 1857, and then issued withadditions in the form of a pamphlet which is now very scarce. It consistedof 152 pages thus arranged:—(1) Preliminary Note, i-iv; (2) Preface, pp.3-68; (3) China (the two Titan papers), pp. 69-149; (4) Postscript, pp.149-152.
In the posthumous supplementary volume (XVI.) of the collected works thethird section was reprinted, but all the other matter was discarded—witha rather imperfect appreciation of the labour which the author had bestowedupon it, and his own estimate of the value of what he had condensed in thisSeries—as frequently expressed to me during its progress.
In the twelfth volume of the 'Riverside' Edition of De Quincey's works,published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, U.S.A., the whole of the 152pp. of ...