ABSTRACT
First published in Blackwood’s, XLVII, February 1840, pp. 145–53. Reprinted in F, XV, Letters to a Young Man, and Other Papers (1854), pp. 101–26. Revised text, carrying a few variants from F, in SGG, IX, Leaders in Literature, with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting them (1858), pp. 54–75. There is one manuscript as follows:
