36. TEMPLE BAR.

["Men are but children of a larger growth." July, 1877.]

III. ESSAYS: COLLECTED.

[Nos. 37-44 were brought out by L. H. himself.] 37. CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PERFORMANCES OF THE LONDON THEATRES, including general remarks on the practice and genius of the Stage, by the Editor of the Examiner. 1807.

[Reprinted from the News. "To know an actor personally appeared to me a vice not to be thought of; and I would as lief have taken poison as accepted a ticket from an actor."—Autobiography. Thus lightly did L. H. describe his introduction into theatrical criticism of an independent and impartial spirit.]

38. AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW THE FOLLY AND DANGER OF METHODISM. In a series of essays, first published in the weekly paper called the Examiner, and now enlarged, with a preface and editorial notes, by the editor of the Examiner. 1809.

39. THE MONTHS, descriptive of the successive beauties of the year.

1821.

[First appeared as "Calendar of the Seasons in the Literary Pocket-Book. Mrs. Southey made manuscript corrections of some botanical points, which are given in Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. vi., p. 108.]

40. INDICATOR

AND COMPANION. Selected. 1834, often reprinted. The later editions being published with The Seer.

41. THE SEER. Motto: "Love adds a precious seeing to the eye." In 2 parts, 1840 and 1841. Reprinted as above, and in America, 1864.

[Collected from London Journal-The Liberal -The Monthly Repository-The Tatler-The Round Table. The Preface is "Given at this our suburban abode, with a fire on one side of us, and a vine at the window on the other, this 19th day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty, in the very green and invincible year of our life the fifty-sixth.-L. H."]

42. MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS. A selection of sketches, essays, and critical memoirs, from Leigh Hunt's uncollected prose writings, 1847, 1852; and a cheap edition of 1870, often reprinted; also in America.

[The papers are taken from The Westminster Review-The New Monthly Magazine-Tait's Magazine-Ainsworth's Magazine-The Monthly

Chronicle.]

43. A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA. 1848, 1870, 1882.

[Illustrated by R. Doyle. Papers on Pastoral Poets, reprinted from Ainsworth's Magazine.]

44. TABLE TALK; to which are added imaginary conversations between Pope and Swift (from Family Journal in New Monthly Magazine), 1851, 1858, etc. America, 1879.

[The Table Talk appeared first in the Atlas and other periodicals.]

45. STUDIES EN SCHETSEN, naar del Engelsch van Leigh Hunt door E. T. Polgieber. Deventer, 1842.

[A translation of some essays and tales by L. H.]

46. PROSE WORKS of Leigh Hunt. In 4 vols. America. [1857.]

47. A TALE FOR A CHIMNEY CORNER, and other essays. From 'the Indicator.' Edited by Edmund Ollier, with portrait, introduction, and notes. 1869; reprinted 1890 with title, Essays by L. H.," without portrait.

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48. A DAY BY THE FIRE, and other papers. Edited by J. E. B[abson]. 1870.

49. THE WISHING CAP PAPERS from the Examiner, and other Essays. Edited by J. E. B[abson].

Boston, 1873; London, 1874.

50. ESSAYS; from the Indicator, Companion, Seer, and Keepsake. Edited by Arthur Symons, with introduction. 1888. (The Camelot Series.)

51. LEIGH HUNT AS POET AND ESSAYIST. Edited by Charles Kent, with introduction and portrait. 1889. (The Cavendish Library.)

[An extensive collection, giving the original source of everything reprinted, but few of the essays are printed entire. A list of L. H.'s more important writings is given.]

52. TALES BY LEIGH HUNT. Edited by Prof.

Knight, with introduction and portrait. 1891.

Papers by Leigh Hunt will also be found in :53. (i) THE ROUND TABLE. A collection of Essays on Literature, men, and manners. By William Hazlitt.

2 vols., 1817, 1841.

[Reprinted from Examiner. Papers by L. H., signed H. T. or L. H.]

54. (ii) ROMANCIST AND NOVELIST'S LIBRARY.

Edited by William Hazlitt.

1840.

1839 and

55. (iii) HEADS OF THE PEOPLE. By Kenny Meadows. 1840, 1846.

[2 papers-- The Monthly Nurse' and 'The Omnibus Conductor.']

56. (iv) FALSTAFF'S LETTERS. By James White, with notices of the author, collected from Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and other contemporaries.

[A reprint, 1877.

The part taken from L. H. appeared mostly in the Indicator, Jan. 24th, 1821.]

IV. LONDON GUIDE-BOOKS.

[In which the reader is taken "through London quarter by quarter, to notice the memorials as they arise;" and is delighted by gossip of unwearying brightness, largely derived from Pennant and The Lounger's Common Place Book.]

57. THE TOWN; its memorable characters and

events. St. Paul's to St. James's. 2

1848; cheap edition of 1858 often

vols.
reprinted.

[Much of this appeared first in Leigh Hunt's London Journal, and in Leigh Hunt's Journal. 45 illustrations.]

58. THE OLD COURT SUburb. Memorials of Kensington, regal, critical, and anecdotal. 2 editions in 1855, 1860.

Largely reprinted from Household Words, 1853 and 1854.]

59. A SAUNTER THROUGH THE WEST END. 1861. [Reprinted from the Atlas. 1847.]

V. VARIOUS PROSE WORKS.

60. REFORMIST'S REPLY TO AN ARTICLE IN THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. 1810.

["A Pamphlet in defence of its own reforming principles."-Autobiography.]

61. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN AND LEIGH HUNT, Proprietors of the Examiner, on an information filed ex-officio by the Attorney-General, decided by Lord Ellenborough and a special Jury in the King's Bench, Westminster, on Wednesday, the 9th of December, 1812; to which are added observations on the Trial, by the Editor of the Examiner. [1813.]

[The "observations" are taken from the Examiners of December, 1812, January and February, 1813, and I therefore date the pamphlet 1813 instead of 1812, as has been previously done.]