Of the eight papers printed here, “Some Eighteenth-Century Men About Town,” “A Forgotten Satirist: ‘Peter Pindar’,” “Sterne’s Eliza,” and “William Beckford, of Fonthill Abbey,” have appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_; “Charles James Fox” appeared in the _Monthly Review_, “Exquisites of the Regency” in _Chambers’s Journal_, and “The Demoniacs” in the American _Bookman_. To the editors of these periodicals I am indebted either for permission to reprint, or for their courtesy in having permitted me to reserve the right of publication in book form. “Philip, Duke of Wharton” is now printed for the first time. “A VIEW FROM THE PUMP ROOM, BATH” _Frontispiece_ _A Facsimile Reproduction of a Drawi…
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