CHAPTER PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1
I. CONVERSATION AND S. T. COLERIDGE 7
II. MR. FINLAY'S HISTORY OF GREECE 60
III. THE ASSASSINATION OF CÆSAR 91
IV. CICERO (SUPPLEMENTARY TO PUBLISHED ESSAY) 95
V. MEMORIAL CHRONOLOGY 107
VI. CHRYSOMANIA; OR, THE GOLD-FRENZY IN ITS PRESENT STAGE 157
VII. DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH PEERAGE 169
VIII. THE ANTI-PAPAL MOVEMENT 174
IX. THEORY AND PRACTICE 182
X. POPE AND DIDACTIC POETRY 189
XI. SHAKSPEARE AND WORDSWORTH 197
XII. CRITICISM ON SOME OF COLERIDGE'S CRITICISMS OF WORDSWORTH 201
XIII. WORDSWORTH AND SOUTHEY: AFFINITIES AND DIFFERENCES 208
XIV. PRONUNCIATION 213
XV. THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN NO MODERN ERA 221
XVI. DISPERSION OF THE JEWS, AND JOSEPHUS'S ENMITY TO CHRISTIANITY 225
XVII. CHRISTIANITY AS THE RESULT OF PRE-ESTABLISHED HARMONY 228
XVIII. THE MESSIANIC IDEA ROMANIZED 238
XIX. CONTRAST OF GREEK AND PERSIAN FEELING IN CERTAIN ASPECTS 241
XX. OMITTED PASSAGES AND VARIED READINGS 244
1. Dinner 244
2. Omitted Passages from the Review of Bennett's Ceylon 246
3. Gillman's Coleridge 255
4. Why Scripture does not Deal with Science ('Pagan Oracles') 257
5. Variation on a Famous Passage in 'The Daughter of Lebanon' 260