THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME TWELVE _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: _Grace Hazlitt, Mother of William Hazlitt (1747–1837)_ _From an oil painting by John Hazlitt_ ] [Illustration: _Rev. William Hazlitt. (1737–1820.)_ _Father of William Hazlitt_ _From a miniature by John Hazlitt._ ] THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT EDITED BY A. R. WALLER AND ARNOLD GLOVER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. E. HENLEY ❦ Fugitive Writings ❦ 1904 LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.: NEW YORK Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 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 included any essay as to Hazlitt’s authorship of which any reasonable doubt can exist. Reference may here be made to a few essays which, though they may have been written by Hazlitt, have been excluded from the present volume, because the evidence of their authorship was not sufficiently strong. They are arranged in the following list under the heading of the Magazine in which they first appeared. I. In _The New Monthly Magazine_. 1. Four papers entitled ‘The Confessional’ (1822, vol. IV. pp. 349, 450; vol. v. pp. 54, 406) which read very much as if they were written by Hazlitt during the _Liber Amoris_ period. 2. An essay entitled ‘Social Grievances’ (1822, vol. v. p. 412). 3. An essay on ‘The Influence of Books on the Progress of Manners’ (May, 1828, vol. xxii. p. 409). II. In _The Liberal_.