are item to tempt the collector or 

 ng generation. The names of Words 

 Coleridge, Robert Southey and Joser 

 le, their publisher, are thus connect 

 •olume of such character recently t 

 o light, probably due to the fact ths 

 :rt Southey and S. T. Coleridge wh 

 •mbarking on a literary career r 

 isters. To the intimacy that natura 

 owed is due the preservation of an 

 mknown Coleridge item, a.nd the firs 

 cal works of Wordsworth, found bo 

 n a volume of pamphlets by 

 Southey. 'Thus the separate issue o 

 idge's "Ode to the Departing Tear," 

 Lpparently to make its first appears 

 .he auction room next season in a ; 

 Vhderson's in New York of first edit 

 iterary importance, duplicates, et 

 ected from the library of "a well- 

 Brooklyn collector." 



The "Ode," which appeared in "Tlv 

 jridge Intelligencer" for Dec. 31, 179* 

 :he title "Ode for the Last Day of tri 

 .796," was also printed simultaneous] 

 separate quarto pamphlet of sixteen 

 jnder the title of 



"Ode | on the | Departing Year. | B} 

 Coleridge. | [Ave lines from Aeschylus] 

 :ol; | Printed by N. Biggs, | and sold 

 Parsons, Paternoster-Row, London. 

 /erso blank, followed by a Dedicator 

 ter "To Thomas Poole, of Stow< 

 nages, dated December 26, 1796; the 

 ;vith notes covering pages 5-15, follo\ 

 'Lines Addressed to a Young Man o 

 ;une who abandoned himself to an in 



