Coningsby; or, the new generation [antikvár]

TO HENRY H 0 P E. It is not because this volume was conceived and partly executed amid the glades and galleries of the Deep de ne, that I have inscribed it with your name. Nor merely because I was desirous to avail myself of the most graceful privilege of an author, and dedicate my work to the friend, whose talents I have always appreciated and whose virtues I have ever admired. But because in these pages I have endeavoured to picture somelhing of that development of the new and, as I believe, better mind of England, that has often been the subject of our converse and speculation. In this volume you will íind many a thought illustrated and many a principle attempted to be established that we have often together partially discussed and canvassed. Doubtless you may encounter somé opinions with which you may not agree, and somé conclusions the accuracy of which you may find cause to question. But if I have generally succeeded