ADVERTISEMENT.
Reading edition
Several of the following Essays were published by Mr. Bagehot himself in a volume which appeared in 1858, entitled ‘Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen’—a volume which has now long been out of print. A good many others are republished, now for the first time, from The National Review, in which they appeared, while one other,—that on Henry Crabb Robinson,—is taken, with the kind permission of the Editor, from The Fortnightly Review; two short metaphysical papers are from the Contemporary Review, and three—one biographical and two political—from the Economist. The Prefatory Memoir is also republished, with the Editor’s permission, from The Fortnightly Review. In all cases the date of the first publication has been appended to each Essay. The Portrait was taken in photography by Monsieur Adolphe Beau, in 1864. It has been printed by Messrs. Locke & Whitfield by the Woodbury process.
November 1878.