ABSTRACT
First published in The Tatler, I, 18 November 1830m pp. 257–8; see headnote above, pp. 117–20. It was partially reprinted in Table-Talk, pp. 194–6. ‘The Reader’ series was a kind of literary counterpart to the theatrical criticism of Hunt’s ‘Play-Goer’ reviews. For the second part of the review, see below, pp. 137–41.
