ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Volume of Essays is supplementary to the two volumes published some years ago; it contains certain Essays which have appeared in the Edinburgh Review since the former publication. As these have all been inserted in a new edition of the Essays in another form, which will appear simultaneously with the present Volume, it seemed to the Author equitable that the purchasers of the former edition should have the opportunity, if they pleased, of obtaining the additional Essays in the same shape. The Publishers have therefore kindly consented to issue them in a separate octavo volume, uniform in all respects with the two volumes previously published. The order of he Essays in the two editions is, in some places, a little different. As the whole of the two former volumes were reprinted for the new edition, it appeared desirable to distribute the new |