Macmillan's Pocket English Classics. A Series of English Texts, edited for use in Secondary Schools, with Critical Introductions, Notes. etc. 16mo. Levanteen. 25c. each. Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley. Burke's Speech on Conciliation. De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium-Eater. Eliot's Silas Marner. Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. Irving's The Alhambra. Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal. Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Macaulay's Essay on Milton. Milton's Comus, Lycidas, and Other Poems. Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I and II. Pope's Homer's Iliad. Scott's The Lady of the Lake. Scott's Marmion. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Shakespeare's Macbeth. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Tennyson's The Princess. OTHERS TO FOLLOW. OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY (Reprinted from The London Magazine for September and October, EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ARTHUR BEATTY, PH.D. INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1900 All rights reserved PREFACE THE text of this edition is a word for word reprint of the Confessions as it appeared in the London Magazine. The reasons for the choice of text are given in the Introduction. All the peculiarities of spelling and punctuation have been retained, except in cases of evident error, but even then the exact reading of the original can be found from the notes. The initials and blanks of the original have been filled in from later editions of the Confessions or from other sources. These additions are enclosed in square brackets. In the Notes will be found all De Quincey's notes with the exception of a few that are manifestly unimportant. The editor's notes aim to explain the many allusions of the text and to point out the literary |