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] |
| FRAGMENTS OF LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHY (1812) | |
| On the Writings of Hobbes | [25] |
| On Liberty and Necessity | [48] |
| On Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding | [74] |
| On Tooke’s ‘Diversions of Purley’ | [119] |
| On Self-Love | [132] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MORNING CHRONICLE | |
| *Madame de Staël’s Account of German Philosophy and Literature | [162] |
| *The Same Subject continued | [167] |
| *The Same Subject continued | [172] |
| *The Same Subject continued (On Abstraction) | [180] |
| *Fine Arts. British Institution | [187] |
| *The Stage | [191] |
| *Fine Arts (The Louvre) | [195] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHAMPION | |
| *Wilson’s Landscapes at the British Institution | [198] |
| *On Gainsborough’s Pictures | [202] |
| *Mr. Kemble’s Penruddock | [205] |
| *Introduction to an Account of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses | [208] |
| *On Genius and Originality | [210] |
| *On the Imitation of Nature | [216] |
| *On the Ideal | [223] |
| *L. Buonaparte’s Charlemagne: ou l’Église Délivrée | [230] |
| *The Same Subject continued | [234] |
| *L. Buonaparte’s Collection of Pictures | [237] |
| *British Institution | [242] |
| *The Same Subject continued | [246] |
| *The Same Subject continued | [248] |
| *On Mr. Wilkie’s Pictures | [249] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EXAMINER | |
| *On Rochefoucault’s Maxims | [253] |
| On the Predominant Principles and Excitements of the Human Mind[[2]] | [258] |
| The Love of Power or Action as Main a Principle in the Human Mind as Sensibility to Pleasure or Pain[[2]] | [263] |
| Essay on Manners[[3]] | [269] |
| *Kean’s Bajazet, and ‘The Country Girl’ | [274] |
| *Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity | [277] |
| *Parallel Passages in various Poets | [282] |
| *Mr. Locke a great Plagiarist | [284] |
| [The Same Subject continued] | [578] |
| *Shakespear’s Female Characters | [290] |
| *Miss O’Neill’s Widow Cheerly | [297] |
| *Penelope and The Dansomanie. | [299] |
| *Oroonoko | [301] |
| *The Pannel and The Ravens | [303] |
| *John Gilpin | [305] |
| *Don Giovanni and Kean’s Eustace de St. Pierre | [307] |
| *Character of the Country People | [309] |
| *Mr. Macready’s Macbeth | [315] |
| *Guy Faux | [317] |
| *The Same Subject continued | [323] |
| *The Same Subject concluded | [328] |
| Character of Mr. Canning | [334] |
| *The Dandy School | [343] |
| *Actors and the Public | [348] |
| *French Plays | [352] |
| *French Plays (continued) | [356] |
| *The Theatres and Passion-Week | [358] |
| *Charles Kean | [362] |
| *Some of the Old Actors | [366] |
| *The Company at the Opera | [369] |
| *The Beggar’s Opera | [373] |
| *The Taming of the Shrew and L’Avare | [377] |
| *Mrs. Siddons | [381] |
| *The Three Quarters, etc. | [384] |
| *Mr. Kean | [389] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TIMES | |
| *Munden’s Sir Peter Teazle | [392] |
| *Young’s Hamlet | [394] |
| *Dowton in The Hypocrite | [395] |
| *Miss Brunton’s Rosalind | [396] |
| *Maywood’s Zanga | [397] |
| *Kean’s Richard III. | [399] |
| *The Wonder | [401] |
| *Venice Preserved | [402] |
| *She Stoops to Conquer | [403] |
| *Kean’s Macbeth | [404] |
| *Kean’s Othello | [405] |
| *Kean and Miss O’Neill | [407] |
| *The Honey Moon | [409] |
| *Mr. Kean | [410] |
| *King John | [410] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE YELLOW DWARF | |
| *The Press—Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and Bentham | [411] |
| *Mr. Coleridge’s Lectures | [416] |
| *Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage | [420] |
| The Opera | [426] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH (NEW SCOTS) MAGAZINE | |
| *On the Question whether Pope was a Poet | [430] |
| *On Respectable People | [433] |
| On Fashion | [437] |
| On Nicknames | [442] |
| Thoughts on Taste | [450] |
| The Same Subject continued | [454] |
| The Same Subject continued[[4]] | [459] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LONDON MAGAZINE | |
| *On the Present State of Parliamentary Eloquence | [464] |
| *Haydon’s ‘Christ’s Agony in the Garden’ | [481] |
| *Pope, Lord Byron, and Mr. Bowles | [486] |
| On Consistency of Opinion | [508] |
| On the Spirit of Partisanship | [521] |
| *‘The Pirate’ | [531] |
| *‘Peveril of the Peak’ | [537] |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LITERARY EXAMINER | |
| Common Places | [540] |
| Notes | [563] |
| ESSAYS NOT CERTAINLY HAZLITT’S, AND FRAGMENTS | |
| Character of Mr. Wordsworth’s New Poem The Excursion | [572] |
| The Duke D’Enghien | [577] |
| Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ | [580] |
| Sketches of the History of the Good Old Times | [582] |
| Historical Illustrations of Shakespeare | [601] |
| Mr. Crabbe | [603] |
FACSIMILE (REDUCED) OF HAZLITT’s HANDWRITING, FROM A MS. IN THE POSSESSION OF MR. W. C. HAZLITT.
FUGITIVE WRITINGS