This book has compiled various essays that were part of the collection of writings of Charles Lamb (1775-1834) who was an essayist in England. Several passages which Lamb suppressed have been restored from the magazines in which the essays originally appeared, as the personal reasons that caused their omission now no longer exist. It has seemed best to retain Lamb's own notes on the text as footnotes. The miscellaneous critical papers are reprinted in the form in which they first appeared in the several magazines.