THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH AND JOAN OF ARC

BY
THOMAS DE QUINCEY

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
MILTON HAIGHT TURK, PH.D.




TO CHARLES DEACON CREE
THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
_Glencairn, Kilmacolm, Scotland June 27, 1905_




PREFACE


Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum
Press _Selections from De Quincey_; many of the notes have also
been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a
review of the _Selections_ by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I
wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the
Glasgow University Library.

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venture to remark that the object of the teacher of literature is, of