Produced by Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WINTERSLOW ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS WRITTEN THERE BY WILLIAM HAZLITT [Decoration] LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 48 LEICESTER SQUARE 1902 The World's Classics XXV THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT--III WINTERSLOW ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS WRITTEN THERE _These Essays were first published collectively in the year 1839. In 'The World's Classics' they were first published in 1902._ Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable The World's Classics I. JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Brontë. [_Second Impression._ II. THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. By Charles Lamb. [_Second Impression._ III. THE POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, 1830-1858. [_Second Impression._ IV. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By Oliver Goldsmith. V. TABLE-TALK: Essays on Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt. [_Second Impression._ VI. ESSAYS. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [_Second Impression._ VII. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. [_Second Impression._ VIII. OLIVER TWIST. By Charles Dickens. IX. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. By Thomas Ingoldsby. [_Second Impression._ X. WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Emily Brontë. XI. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By Charles Darwin. [_Second Impression._ XII. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. By John Bunyan. XIII. ENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS. Selected by T. W. H. Crosland. XIV. SHIRLEY. By Charlotte Brontë. XV. SKETCHES AND ESSAYS. By William Hazlitt. XVI. THE POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK. XVII. ROBINSON CRUSOE. By Daniel Defoe. XVIII. HOMER'S ILIAD. Translated by Alexander Pope. XIX. SARTOR RESARTUS. By Thomas Carlyle. XX. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. By Jonathan Swift. XXI. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION. By Edgar Allan Poe. XXII. NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By Gilbert White. XXIII. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER. By T. De Quincey. XXIV. BACON'S ESSAYS. XXV. WINTERSLOW. By William Hazlitt. XXVI. THE SCARLET LETTER. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. XXVII. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. By Lord Macaulay. XXVIII. HENRY ESMOND. By W. M. Thackeray. XXIX. IVANHOE. By Sir Walter Scott. _Other volumes in preparation._ Pott 8vo. Cloth, 1s. net. Leather, 2s. net. PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1850