Of the essays in this volume some have already been published in _Literary Remains_, _Sketches and Essays_, or _Winterslow_ (see Bibliographical Note to Vol. XI.), and the rest (with one exception) are now reprinted for the first time. The exception is ‘The Sick Chamber’ which was published by Mr. Ireland in his _William Hazlitt Essayist and Critic, Selections from his Writings_. Some of the essays now republished for the first time have been attributed to Hazlitt by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt (_Memoirs_, 1867, 1. xxii-xxxii—Chronological Catalogue), or by Mr. Ireland (_List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt_); others have not before been identified. The Editors, however, have not inc…
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