In this e-text, paired underscores denote _italicised text_, and a ^ (caret) indicates superscripted text. Footnotes have been positioned below the relevant paragraphs. A small number of spelling and typographic errors have been corrected silently. 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 r…
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