Excerpt from The Essays of Leigh Hunt

In making this selection from the essays of Leigh Hunt, my aim has partly been to provide a companion volume to the volume of essays which I edited in 1887 for the Scott Library. I have therefore avoided using more than a very few of the essays which I had previously chosen, and I have used these because they seemed specially suitable for a book which is to be illustrated. Here, the illustrator will be seen collaborating with Leigh Hunt in his endeavour to bring vividly before us those aspects of streets, and shops, and theatres, and manners, which change from generation to generation, gaining, from generation to generation, something of the additional interest of things which already belong to the past. The triviality of yesterday becomes, to the reader of to-day, a part of history.

In my selection of 1887 I permitted myself to edit Leigh Hunt with a severity which seems to me now to have been a little excessive. Most of Leigh Hunt"s work was written hastily, for publication week by week; and the consequences of that haste, and of that mode of publication, are visible on every page. With all the instincts of a man of letters, Leigh Hunt was condemned to be, for the most part, a journalist of genius.

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