PREFACE
It was originally intended to add an index at the end of volume xii. of our edition, but so many of Hazlitt’s previously unidentified writings were discovered during the progress of the work, that it was found to be impossible to make volumes xi. and xii. any thicker. A brief index of the titles of Hazlitt’s various essays and papers closed, therefore, volume xii., and the publication of a separate index was designed.
The scope of this index was agreed upon between Arnold Glover and myself; the slips were made under my direction, and it was my intention to have checked them myself. Upon the death of Arnold Glover, however, I had to undertake other work left uncompleted by him, and the labour of checking each entry in the proofs with the twelve volumes indexed has been accomplished by Mrs Arnold Glover.
The book is now published, through the collaboration of Mrs Arnold Glover, Messrs J. M. Dent & Co. and myself, at a price considerably below cost, in order to place it within reach of all lovers of Hazlitt; and in memory of one who spared no pains in his self-chosen task of making the writings of Hazlitt better known,one who added so considerably to the known bulk of those writings.
Recognition of the value of his labour has, since his death, been ungrudgingly given him. It remains to be added that he himself would have regarded that labour as incomplete until he had passed the last proof-sheet of this index.
A. R. Waller.
A. R. Waller.
A. R. Waller.
A. R. Waller.
Cambridge,1st September 1906.