LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET.

1826.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

Page

a

Essay I.-On the Qualifications necessary to Success in

Life

1

Essay II.-On the Look of a Gentleman

35

Essay III.—On Reading Old Books

61

Essay IV.-On Personal Character

85

Essay V.-On People of Sense

113

Essay VI.-On Antiquity

139

Essay VII.-On the Difference between Writing and

Speaking

163

Essay VIII.-On a Portrait of an English Lady, by

Vandyke

205

Essay IX.-On Novelty and Familiarity

239

Essay X.-On Old English Writers and Speakers 279

Essay XI.-Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars. 309

Essay XII.—Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespear 335

Essay XIII.—On Depth and Superficiality

361

Essay XIV.-On Respectable People

397

Essay XV.-On Jealousy and Spleen of Party

409