Published in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, vol 16, no. 1, 1826, pages 145-152. Editorial Note appended to this article's title: Having been permitted to extract the above eloquent passages from the manuscripts of the author of the "Mysteries of Udolpho," we have given this title to them, though certainly they were not intended by the writer to be offered as a formal or deliberate essay, under this, or any other, denomination. They were, originally, part of an Introduction to the Romance, or Phantasie, which is about to appear. The discussion is supposed to be carried on by two travellers in Shakspeare's native county, Warwickshire. *The "romance, or Phantasie" above refers to Ann Radcliffe's posthumously-published novel, Gaston De Blondeville, pub. 1826.