THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF _ _ _ _
Mr. White's painstaking attempt to set in order Coleridge's political views, with due account of the development from his revolutionary youth to the liberal conservatism of his later years, is to be warmly commended. His extracts, gathered from the many scattered sources that baffle the ordinary inquirer, are arranged as a mosaic under the heads of religion, philosophy, politics and " his own times," in three periods beginning respectively in 1791, 1797 and 1809, and full refer- ences are given. It must not be expected that any-very coherent doctrine emerges, but it is made abundantly clear that on the fundamental problems of politics, the preservation of individual liberty and the Maintenance of - peace between nations, Coleridge has much to say
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