1. No one who recollects the equally singular manner in which another most distinguished metaphysician--the late Dean Hansel--was wont to quaver forth his admirably turned and often highly eloquent phrases of philosophical exposition, can fail to be reminded of him by the above description. No two temperaments or histories however could be more dissimilar. The two philosophers resembled each other in nothing save the "om-mject" and "sum-mject" of their studies. 2. The Longmans told Coleridge that the greater part of the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads had been sold to seafaring men, who, having heard of the _Ancient Mariner_, took the volume for a naval song-book. INDEX Adams, Dr., _Aeolian Harp,_ circumstances under which it was written, Coleridge's opinion of, _Aids to Reflection,_ its popularity, its value as a spiritual manual, its inferiority from a literary point of view, Allan Bank, Allsop, Mr. Thomas, _Ancient Mariner,_ how and when first conceived, its uniqueness, Wordsworth's account of its origin and of his suggestions, a sublime "pot-boiler," realistic force of its narrative, its vividness of imagery, its wonderful word-pictures, its evenness of execution, examples of its consummate art, its chief characteristics, Anecdotes, Ball, Sir Alexander, Beaumont, Lady, Berkeley, _Biographia Literaria,_ its interest, critical and illustrative, its main value, its analysis of the principles of poetry, its examination of Wordsworth's theory, its contents, _Blackwood's Magazine,_ Coleridge's contributions to, Bonaparte, _Borderers_ (Wordsworth's), Bowles, William Lisle, Burke, sonnet to, Byron, Calne, Coleridge at, _Cambridge Intelligencer _(Flower's), Carlyle, description of Coleridge by, Carrlyon, Dr., reminiscences of Coleridge in Germany by, _Christabel,_ Coleridge's opinion of, its unfinished condition, the lines on the "spell," its high place as a work of creative art, its fragmentary beauties, the description of Christabel's chamber, its main idea, outline of the unfinished parts, Lamb and Hartley Coleridge on, its perfection from the metrical point of view, publication of the second part, its popularity, Coleridge's great desire to complete it, _Circassian Love Chant_, its charm of melody,