LITERARY STUDIES VOL. I. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON [Illustration: (signed) Yours, Walter Bagehot. Woodburytype Company.] LITERARY STUDIES BY THE LATE WALTER BAGEHOT M.A. AND FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON _WITH A PREFATORY MEMOIR_ EDITED BY RICHARD HOLT HUTTON IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. _FOURTH EDITION_ LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET 1891 _All rights reserved_ ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. The only changes that have been made in this edition are corrections of the press, the need of which has been discovered since the third edition was issued. For a few of these I have been indebted to the very carefully annotated American edition of Mr. Bagehot’s works brought out at Hartford, Connecticut, by Mr. Forrest Morgan, of the Travellers’ Insurance Society. In some cases I think that the American editor has missed Mr. Bagehot’s meaning, and have not, therefore, accepted his corrections. R. H. H. _November 1, 1890._ ADVERTISEMENT. Several of the following Essays were published by Mr. BAGEHOT himself in a volume which appeared in 1858, entitled ‘Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen’—a volume which has now long been out of print. A good many others are republished, now for the first time, from _The National Review_, in which they appeared, while one other,—that on Henry Crabb Robinson,—is taken, with the kind permission of the Editor, from _The Fortnightly Review_; two short metaphysical papers are from the _Contemporary Review_, and three—one biographical and two political—from the _Economist_. The Prefatory Memoir is also republished, with the Editor’s permission, from _The Fortnightly Review_. In all cases the date of the first publication has been appended to each Essay. The Portrait was taken in photography by Monsieur Adolphe Beau, in 1864. It has been printed by Messrs. Locke & Whitfield by the Woodbury process. _November 1878._ CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PAGE PRELIMINARY MEMOIR ix ESSAY I. THE FIRST EDINBURGH REVIEWERS (1855) 1 II. HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1852) 41 III. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1856) 75