1. A review (Sept. 29 and Oct. 13, 1816) of George Ensor’s _On the State of Europe in January, 1816_. This work of George Ensor’s (1769–1843), ‘full,’ as the reviewer says, ‘of undeniable facts, and undeniable inferences from them,’ was likely to appeal to Hazlitt’s political sympathies. The review consists mainly of extracts from the work itself, but what there is of comment is certainly very much in Hazlitt’s vein. 2. ‘A Modern Tory Delineated’ (Oct. 6). This paper, which is dated from Gloucester, Oct. 1, 1816, has certainly a very strong flavour of Hazlitt. 3. Some political leaders and articles which appeared at the beginning of 1817 and are not signed with Leigh Hunt’s mark. The most important of these are: ‘Mr. Pitt—Finance, Sinking Fund’ (Jan. 19); ‘Defence of National Debt’ (Jan. 26); ‘Progress of Finance’ (Feb. 16); and ‘Friends of Revolution’ (Feb. 23). 4. Some theatrical notices published in 1828, viz.: June 29 (_The Rivals_); Aug. 3 and 10 (_Cosi fan Tutte_); Oct. 19 (Kean’s Shylock, _Figaro_, and Mathews in _The May Queen_); Oct. 26 (Madame Vestris in _The Marriage of Figaro_, and Rovere the conjurer); Nov. 2 (Farren’s Dr. Cantwell in _The Hypocrite_, _The Youthful Queen_, and Kean’s Overreach, Macbeth and Othello); Nov. 16 (_Guy Mannering_ and _The Stranger_). II. _The Edinburgh Magazine_ (new Series). Three papers on the criminal law, viz.: ‘Historical View of the Progress of Opinion on the Criminal Law and the Punishment of Death’ (March, 1819, vol. IV. p. 195); ‘Parliamentary Report on the Criminal Laws’ (Dec., 1819, vol. V. p. 491); and a short paper on the same subject (Jan. 1820, vol. VI. p. 26). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his _Memoirs, etc._ (vol. I. p. xxvi.) attributes these articles to Hazlitt, perhaps on the strength of some MS. or proof in his possession at the date of the _Memoirs_ (1867). Hazlitt’s authorship, however, though very probable, does not seem to be certain, and as the papers consist largely of extracts from a Parliamentary Report, they have been omitted from the present edition. Hazlitt’s views on capital punishment will be found in an extract which was first published in _Fraser’s Magazine_ in 1831 and is reprinted in vol. XII. III. _The London Magazine._ 1. A review of ‘The Memoirs of Mr. Hardy Vaux’ (Jan. 1820, vol. I. p. 25). 2. ‘Letters of Foote, Garrick,’ etc. (Dec. 1820, vol. II. p. 647, and Feb. 1821, vol. III. p. 202). 3. A review of Byron’s _Marino Faliero_ (May, 1821, vol. III. p. 550). 4. A review of Byron’s _Sardanapalus_ (Jan. 1822, vol. V. p. 66). CONTENTS[1] PAGE On Abstract Ideas 1