Remarks Suggested by the Perusal of Mr Hazlitt's 'Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things'

First published in The Companion, I, 19 March 1828, pp. 113–28; see headnote above, pp. 49–50. It was reprinted in Hunt, Literary, pp. 243–60. In the prefatory note to the present review of William Hazlitt’s two-volume Plain Speaker (1826), Hunt states that he is ‘drawing upon some reflections which…the perusal of these masterly essays’ occasioned him ‘a year ago’ (see below, p. 57). But the bulk of the review seems to have been written nearly two years earlier, for on 26 June 1826, Hunt told Hazlitt that he had ‘been writing a criticism on the Plain Speaker a sheet long, which I must cut up, they tell me, into three or four pages!’ (Gates, Letters, p. 183).