MADAME DE STAËL’S ACCOUNT OF GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Madame de Staël’s De l’Allemagne, published in London in 1813, had been reviewed, possibly by Hazlitt, in The Morning Chronicle for Nov. 13, 1813, and the four papers here reprinted and signed ‘An English Metaphysician’ are ostensibly a continuation of that review, though they contain very little about German philosophy and nothing at all about German literature. They are, in fact, merely fragments in letter form of the course of lectures which Hazlitt had recently delivered at the Russell Institution. See ante, pp. 25 et seq. and notes. Hazlitt was a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle during 1813 and 1814. Some of his contributions on politics, the stage, and the fine arts will be found in vols. III., VIII. and IX. of the present edition; and he gives an account of his relations with James Perry, the editor, in the essay ‘On Patronage and Puffing’ (see vol. VI. p. 289). None of the Chronicle papers included in the present volume have been republished before.
[162]. The article in The Edinburgh Review. Vol. XXII. p. 198. The review was by Jeffrey. [164]. ‘They were made fierce,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 27. [165]. ‘Four champions fierce,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 28.