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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By J. Dykes Campbell. (Macmillan.) —" This

memoir," writes Mr. Campbell in his preface, " is mainly a reproduction of the very able biographical sketch prefixed to the one-volume edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works,' published last spring," which we reviewed in full at the time. It does not aim at a criticism of his poetry, or an estimate of his philosophy ; but tells, with careful attention and from sources that are, to some extent, novel, the story of his life. A certain expansion and reconsideration of the earlier essay may be noticed. The frontispiece is a striking portrait of Coleridge, from a painting by Peter Vandyke. "It has," Cottle said, "the advantage of exhibiting Mr. Coleridge in ono of his animated conversations."