Replies to Minor Queries.
_Coleridge's "Christabel"_ (Vol. iv., p. 316.).--I am not familiar with
the Coleridge Papers, under that title, nor indeed am I quite sure that
I know at all to what papers MR. MORTIMER COLLINS refers in his
question. On this account I am not qualified, as he will perhaps think,
to give an opinion upon the genuineness of the lines quoted as a
continuation of "Christabel." If I may be allowed, however, to hazard a
judgment, as one to whom most of the great poet-philosopher's works have
long and affectionately been known, I would venture to express an
opinion against the right of these lines to admission as one of his
productions. I do it with diffidence; but with the hope that I may aid
in eliciting the truth concerning them.