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LEFT COLEOPTERA 64 COLIBIDGE tion that burst forth in the following year (1862), when he published "The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Criti- cally Examined." The Bishop of Cape Town, the metropolitan Bishop, declared Colenso deposed from his see; but on an appeal to the Privy Council, in 1865, the deposition was pronounced null and void. Colenso wrote treatises on mathematics used as text-books. He died in Durban, Natal, June 20, 1883. COLEOPTERA, an order of insects which has been recognized since the days of Aristotle. The number of species enumerated by naturalists, and of which examples are gathered in museums, amounts to 100,000. The Coleoptera are sometimes collectively called beetles, and many of them are known as weevils, lady-bugs, etc. The glow-worm and the blistering-fly belong to this order. COLERIDGE, HARTLEY, an English poet and critic, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; born in Bristol, in 1796. From Oxford he went to London, and there published some exquisite sonnets in the "London Magazine." He inherited defects of character and will, and never realized the promise of his great talents. His writings in prose are "Biographia Borealis" (1833) ; "The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire" (1836) ; and a volume of "Essays and Marginalia." His brother Derwent published a biogra- phy and his poems. He died in 1849. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, an English poet and philosopher; born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, Oct. 21, 1772. Sent to school at Christ's Church Hospital, he was noted for a dreamy ab- stracted manner, though he made con- siderable progress in classical studies. From Christ's Church he went with a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge. His ultra-radical and rationalistic opin- ions made the idea of academic prefer- ment hopeless, and perhaps to escape the difficulties gathering about his future, Coleridge suddenly quitted Cambridge and enlisted in the 15th Dragoons. Res- cued by his friends from this position, he took up his residence at Bristol with Robert Southey, who had just been obliged to quit Oxford for his Unitarian opinions, and Lovell, a young Quaker. The three conceived the project of emi- grating to America, and establishing a pantisocracy, as they termed it, or com- munity in which all should be equal, on the banks of the Susquehanna. This scheme, however, never became any- thing more than a theory, and was finally disposed of when, in 1795, the three friends married three sisters, the Misses Fricket of Bristol. Coleridge about this time started a periodical, the "Watch- man," which did not live beyond the ninth number. In 1796 he took a cottage at Nether Stowey, in Somersetshire, where, sup- ported by the companionship of Words- worth, he wrote much of his best poetry, in particular the "Ancient Mariner" and the first part of "Christabel." While residing at Nether Stowey he used to officiate in a Unitarian chapel at Taun- ton. An annuity bestowed on him by some friends (the Wedgewoods) fur- nished him with the means of making a tour to Germany, where he studied at the University of Gottingen. In 1800 he SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE returned to England and took up his residence beside Southey at Keswick, while Wordsworth lived at Grasmere in the same neighborhood. About 1804 Coleridge went to Malta to re-establish his health, seriou-sly impaired by opium- eating. In 1806 he returned to England, and after 10 years of somewhat desul- tory literary work as lecturer, contrib- utor to periodicals, etc., Coleridge in a way took refuge in the house of his friend Mr. Gillman at Highgate, Lon- don. Of the many years he spent here nothing remains but the "Table Talk." He died July 25, 1834. The dreamy and transcendental character of Coleridge's poetry eminently exhibits the man. As a critic, especially of Shakespeare, his work is of the highest rank. (Coleridge's