y 1888. Praed, do. Sept. 1888. Leigh Hunt, do.
April 1889. Crabbe, do. June 1889. Hogg, do. Sept. 1889. De
Quincey, do. June 1890.

The present order is chronological, following the birth-years of the
authors discussed.

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY--

THE KINDS OF CRITICISM ix

I. CRABBE 1

II. HOGG 33

III. SYDNEY SMITH 67

IV. JEFFREY 100

V. HAZLITT 135

VI. MOORE 170

VII. LEIGH HUNT 201

VIII. PEACOCK 234

IX. WILSON 270

X. DE QUINCEY 304

XI. LOCKHART 339

XII. PRAED 374

XIII. BORROW 403

APPENDIX--A. DE QUINCEY 440

B. LOCKHART 444

INDEX 449

INTRODUCTION

THE KINDS OF CRITICISM

It is probably unnecessary, and might possibly be impertinent, to renew
here at any length the old debate between reviewers as reviewers, and
reviewers as authors--the debate whether the reissue of work contributed
to periodicals is desirable or not. The plea that half the best prose
literature of this century would be inaccessible if the practice had
been forbidden, and the retort that anything which can pretend to keep
company with the best literature of the century will be readily relieved
from the objection, at once sum up the whole quarrel, and leave it
undecided. For my own part, I think that there is a sufficient
connection of subject in the following chapters, and I hope that there
is a sufficient uniformity of treatment. The former point, as the least
important, may b