ABSTRACT
Hazlitt [and Hunt] The Round Table (1817) and Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817); Edinburgh [Scots] Magazine, 2nd Series, I (Nov. 1817), 352–361. The reviewer believes not only in Hazlitt, but in intellectual progress (p. 355). He appears to be – or to have friends – in Hazlitt’s London circle (p. 356). The references on pages 357–358 are to Lockhart’s attack on the “Cockneys” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine for October 1817 (q.v.). John O. Hayden has suggested that Hazlitt here reviews himself (“Hazlitt Reviews Hazlitt,” MLR, LXIV [1969], 20–26). I am inclined to think this possible, but not proven. Compare, for example, the beginning of this review with Hazlitt’s essay “On the Scotch Character” (Hazlitt, Complete Works, ed. P. P. Howe, XVII, pp. 100 ff.), and contrast the writers quoted and cited here with Hazlitt’s usual favorites.
