Excerpt from Later Essays 1917-1920 This, as will be seen from the list at the back of the bastard title, adds a tenth volume to the writer's Studies, mainly in the Eighteenth Century. The essays forming the present instalment appeared in the National Review between September, 1917, and July, 1920, and are here reprinted under the standing permission of the Editor. A few items have, how ever, been added to the closing Causerie. Of these, Johnsoniana and Re-reading originally came out in The Book Monthly; but An Old Magazine and By Way of Preface are now published for the first tixne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.