Then again, amidst what seems to be a Metaphysico-theological Disquisition, 'Detached Thoughts on the Steam-engine,' or, 'The continued Possibility of Prophecy,' we shall meet with some quite private, not unimportant Biographical fact.

On certain sheets stand Dreams, authentic or not, while the circumjacent waking Actions are omitted.

Anecdotes, oftenest without date of place or time, fly loosely on separate slips, like Sibylline leaves.

Interspersed also are long purely Autobiographical delineations; yet without connexion, without recognisable coherence; so unimportant, so superfluously minute, they almost remind us of 'P.P.

Clerk of this Parish.' Thus does famine of intelligence alternate with waste.