Produced by Robert Connal, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY. _EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS., WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES._ BY ALEXANDER H. JAPP, LLD., F.R.S.E. _VOLUME I._ LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1891. [_All rights reserved._] SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS. =With Other Essays,= _CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, IMAGINATIVE AND HUMOROUS,_ BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY. [Illustration] LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1891. [_All rights reserved._] _To Mrs. BAIRD SMITH and Miss DE QUINCEY, who put into my hands the remains in manuscript of their father, that I might select and publish from them what was deemed to be available for such a purpose, this volume is dedicated, with many and grateful thanks for their confidence and aid, by their devoted friend,_ _ALEXANDER H. JAPP._ PREFACE. * * * * * It only needs to be said, by way of Preface, that the articles in the present volume have been selected more with a view to variety and contrast than will be the case with those to follow. And it is right that I should thank Mr. J. R. McIlraith for friendly help in the reading of the proofs. A. H. J. [Transcriber's Note: This etext contains letters with macrons, and have been noted as such: =u represents "u" with a macron, and )o represents o with a breve.] CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE GENERAL INTRODUCTION xi I. SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: Introduction, with Complete List of the 'Suspiria' 1 1. The Dark Interpreter 7 2. The Solitude of Childhood 13 3. Who is this Woman that beckoneth and warneth me from the Place where she is, and in whose eyes is Woeful Remembrance? I guess who she is 16 4. The Princess who overlooked one Seed in a Pomegranate 22 5. Notes for 'Suspiria' 24 II. THE LOVELIEST SIGHT FOR WOMAN'S EYES 29 * * * * * III. WHY THE PAGANS COULD NOT INVEST THEIR GODS WITH ANY IOTA OF GRANDEUR 33 IV. ON PAGAN SACRIFICES 39 V. ON THE MYTHUS 43 * * * * * VI. DAVID'S NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE--THE POLITICS OF THE SITUATION 47 VII. THE JEWS AS A SEPARATE PEOPLE 62