The index is practically confined to the names of persons and things.
The names of imaginary persons, characters in novels, plays, etc., are
indexed under the first word of the name by which they are usually
designated, _e.g._ _Tony_ Lumpkin, _Don_ Quixote, _Dr_ Faustus. The
names of real persons are indexed in the ordinary way. In the very heavy
list of Quotations the method adopted has followed so far as seemed
possible that in use in the Index to Quotations in _Notes and Queries_.
The list of quotations has been very considerably lightened by leaving
out almost all phrases from Shakespeare and Milton: to have added these
would have made the list of quotations almost double its present length,
so often did Hazlitt quote from these two. Hazlitt’s spelling has been
followed where deemed characteristic.
It has been discovered that a short essay has, by mistake, been printed
twice in the text (vol. vii. p. 360, and vol. xi. p. 433). Owners of the
edition will, perhaps, be so good as to note this fact in their copies.
It is the intention of the surviving editor to keep the notes and index
up to date, in case a second impression should be required. He will be
obliged if readers will send him any suggestions they may wish to make.