ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, VIII, 1 January 1815, pp. 11–13. This piece was reprinted, along with the rest of the series, in two volumes under Hazlitt’s name: The Round Table: a collection of essays on literature, men, and manners (London: Archibald Constable and Co.; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817). As Hazlitt’s ‘Advertisement’ to the volume indicated, twelve of the reprinted essays were by Hunt; for other Round Table pieces by Hunt (including responses to correspondents), see The Examiner, VIII, 8 January 1815, pp. 26–8, and below, pp. 10–14; 22 January 1815, pp. 55–7; 29 January 1815, pp. 75–6; 19 February 1815, pp. 121–4; 19 March 1815, pp. 189–90; 16 April 1815, pp. 254–5; 1 October 1815, pp. 634–6; 5 November 1815, pp. 713–16; 12 November 1815, pp. 731–3; IX, 7 April 1816, pp. 220–2; 15 September 1816, pp. 587–9; 29 September 1816, pp. 618–19 and 20 October 1816, pp. 664–5.
