DE QUINCEY'S REVOLT OF THE TARTARS

Edited with Introduction and Notes

by

WILLIAM EDWARD SIMONDS, PH.D.
Professor of the English Language and Literature in Knox College

Boston, U.S.A.
Ginn & Company, Publishers
The Athenæum Press

1899







[Illustration: Thomas de Quincey.
(After a drawing by ARCHER.)]

"In addition to the general impression of his
diminutiveness and fragility, one was struck with the
peculiar beauty of his head and forehead, rising
disproportionately high over his small wrinkly visage
and gentle deep-set eyes."
DAVID MASSON.