It will be seen that _Literary Remains_ and _Winterslow_ to some extent overlap one another, and that _Winterslow_ contained several essays which had already been published in _Political Essays_. Under these circumstances it has been found necessary in the present edition to adopt a fresh scheme of arrangement in place of republishing _Literary Remains_, _Sketches and Essays_ and _Winterslow_ as they stand. Each essay, whether contained in one of those posthumous collections or now republished for the first time, is printed in chronological order under the heading of the magazine or newspaper in which it originally appeared; and the magazines themselves are arranged in a chronological order based upon the respective dates at which Hazlitt began to contribute to them. The only exception to this last scheme of arrangement is that at the end of the present volume it was found convenient to take the ‘Common Places’ from _The Literary Examiner_ a little before their turn. They should strictly have followed the contributions to _The Liberal_ in vol. XII., but it was thought better not to divide between two volumes the important essays from _The New Monthly Magazine_ which now begin vol. XII. This plan of arrangement seemed on the whole the simplest and best, and it is hoped that with the aid of the Tables of Contents and the Index the reader will have no difficulty in finding any particular essay. In the present edition all the essays, the magazine source of which is known, have been printed _verbatim_ from the magazines themselves. In preparing _Literary Remains_, _Sketches and Essays_ and _Winterslow_ for the press the author’s son took considerable liberties with the text. In one or two cases the alterations which he made may have been based on a MS. or a copy of a magazine with corrections by Hazlitt, but far more often the essays were reprinted with omissions and trifling alterations made, as it would seem, by the editor himself on his own responsibility. Some passages thus omitted and now restored for the first time are of great interest. The more important of them are specially indicated in the notes. In the few cases where the author’s son added passages from a MS. or other authoritative source, the passages have been given either in the text (with a note indicating where they occur), or in the Notes. In addition to the essays printed in the text of this volume and to those referred to in the notes it may be convenient to mention here a few essays which may have been written by Hazlitt but have been omitted from the present edition on the ground that his authorship is not sufficiently certain. They are arranged in the following list under the heading of the magazine in which they first appeared. I. _The Examiner._