(REPRINTED FROM HIS LITERARY REMAINS.)
[The following 'Essay on Faith' and 'Notes on the Book of Common
Prayer' are reprinted from the 'Literary Remains,' edited by Henry
Nelson Coleridge, and published in 1838-9 as possibly being portions
of the uncompleted "Supplementary volume" to 'Aids to Reflection'
spoken of by S. T. Coleridge in the latter work: see p. 257 _ante_.
They are otherwise fairly supplementary of the two works which
constitute the bulk of the present volume.
The beautiful 'Nightly Prayer' is added (also from the 'Literary
Remains') as a suitable conclusion to a volume so much devoted to
setting forth the author's faith in, and views concerning, Religion,
the Bible, and Christianity.
In the latter connexion, too, the dates appended by the author
(apparently) to the 'Notes on the Book of Common Prayer,' _in two
places_, pp. 352, 358, and to the 'Nightly Prayer,' p. 359, have
considerable biographical interest.--ED.]