VI. The article entitled '_Chrysomania; or the Gold Frenzy at its Present Stage_', was evidently written after the two articles which appeared in _Hogg's Instructor_. Not improbably it was felt that the readers of _Hogg's Instructor_ had already had enough on the Gold Craze, and this it was deemed better not to publish; but it has an interest as supplementing much that De Quincey had said in these papers, and is a happy illustration of his style in dealing with such subjects. Evidently the editor of _Hogg's Instructor_ was hardly so attracted by these papers as by others of De Quincey's; for we find that he had excised some of the notes. VII. '_The Defence of the English Peerage_' is printed because, although it does not pretend to much detail or research, it shows anew De Quincey's keen interest in the events of English history, and his vivid appreciation of the peerage as a means of quickening and reviving in the minds of the people the memorable events with which the earlier bearers of these ancient titles had been connected. VIII. The '_Anti-Papal Movement_' may be taken to attest once more De Quincey's keen interest in all the topics of the day, political, social, and ecclesiastical. IX. The section on literature more properly will be interesting to many as exhibiting some new points of contact with Wordsworth and Southey. X. The articles on the '_Dispersion of the Jews_,' and on '_Christianity as the result of a Pre-established Harmony_,' will, we think, be found interesting by theologians as well as by readers generally, as attesting not only the keen interest of De Quincey in these and allied subjects, but also his penetration and keen grasp, and his faculty of felicitous illustration, by which ever and anon he lights up the driest subjects. _I. CONVERSATION AND S. T. COLERIDGE._ Oh name of Coleridge, that hast mixed so much with the trepidations of our own agitated life, mixed with the beatings of our love, our gratitude, our trembling hope; name destined to move so much of reverential sympathy and so much of ennobling strife in the generations yet to come, of our England at home, of our other Englands on the St. Lawrence, on the Mississippi, on the Indus and Ganges, and on the pastoral solitudes of Austral climes! What are the great leading vices of conversation as generally managed?--vices that are banished from the best society by the legislation of manners, not by any intellectual legislation, but in other forms of society, and exactly as it approaches to the character of vulgarism, disturbing all approaches to elegance in conversation, and disorganizing it as a thing capable of unity or of progress? These vices are, first, disputation; secondly, garrulity; thirdly, the spirit of interruption.