'If any papers are not marked (he refers only to those volumes actually published by MESSRS. TAYLOR and HESSEY) it was because they were anonymous, or because, from some inadvertency, they were not assigned in my father's list. _So far as the record goes, it may be depended upon._' By its help I was able to fix the authorship by DE QUINCEY of (1) _The Dog Story_--translated from the German, (2) _Moral Effects of Revolutions_, (3) _Prefigurations of Remote Events_, (4) _Abstract of Swedenborgianism by Immanuel Kant_. * * * * * Another perplexing element was the letter written by DE QUINCEY to his uncle, COLONEL PENSON, in 1819 (PAGE'S _Life_, vol. i. p. 207), wherein reference is made to certain contributions to _Blackwood's Magazine_ and _The Quarterly Review_. The archives of _Maga_ I find go back only as far as 1825. As to _The Quarterly Review_, I have MR. MURRAY'S authority for stating that DE QUINCEY never wrote a line in it. Whether any contributions were ever commissioned, paid for, and afterwards suppressed, I have been unable to ascertain. As a matter of fact, the _Schiller_ Series referred to in the letter to COLONEL PENSON was never reviewed in _The Quarterly_ at all. DE QUINCEY as a Newspaper Editor forms the subject of a Chapter in PAGE'S _Life_. Some extracts are there given from cuttings out of _The Westmorland Gazette_ found amongst the Author's Papers. This editorship (1818-19) was of short duration, and pursued under hostile circumstances, such as distance from the Press, &c., which soon led to DE QUINCEY'S resignation. I had hoped to add some further specimens of the newspaper work, but have not, as yet, obtained access to a file of the period. In any future edition I may be able to add this in an Appendix. * * * * * _The Love-Charm._--In spite of the marvellous tenacity of DE QUINCEY'S memory, even as to the very words of a passage in an Author which he had, perhaps, only _once_ read, there were _blanks_ which confounded himself. One of these bore on his contributions to KNIGHT'S _Quarterly Magazine_. MR. FIELDS had been so generally careful in obtaining sufficient authority for what he published, in the original American edition, that DE QUINCEY good-humouredly gave the verdict against himself, and 'supposed he _must_ be wrong' in thinking that some of these special papers were not from his pen. Still,--he demurred, and before including them in _The Selections Grave and Gay_, it was resolved to institute an inquiry. Accordingly, about 1852, I was deputed to interview MR. CHARLES KNIGHT, and request his aid. My mission was to obtain, if possible, a correct list of the various contributions to the _Quarterly Magazine_, including this _Love-Charm_.