William Hazlitt

SKETCHES AND ESSAYS ON READING NEW BOOKS And what of this new book, that the whole world make such a rout about?—Sterne. I cannot understand the rage manifested by the greater part of the world for reading New Books. If the public had read all those that have gone before, I can conceive how...

INTRODUCTION^ BY W. E. HENLEY When Stevenson was pleased to declare that " we are mighty-fine fellows, but we cannot write like William Hazlitt," he said no more than tho truth. Whether or not we are mighty fine fellows is a great Perhaps; but that none of us, from Stevenson down, can as...