17 JUNE 1865, Page 23

Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge. With a

preface by the editor, Thomas Allsop. Third Edition. (Frederick Farrah.)—The only novelty in this edition is the preface, in which Mr. Allsop asserts openly what he had insinuated in the body of the work, that Coleridge was not a believer in Christianity. Mr. Allsop seems to us to have half understood some strong conversational expressions directed against certain popular doctrines, and interpreted them by the light or darkness of his own unbelief. Those letters which he himself publishes abundantly contradict him. Coleridge's writings explain his views on religion quite frankly, and if the man who wrote them was not a Chris- tian, he was, it seems to us, a hypocrite. Mr. Allsop's account of his opinions is not credible.