An early essay of Hegel's which is well worth reading, particularly the opening chapter. Although he drops some of the ideas from this essay in his (more) fully worked out thought, it's good evidence of what he took his task to be: philosophy is the activity which seeks to reconcile dichotomies such as, for moderns at least, object and subject; reason and nature. This is particularly important now, he says, when the dichotomies have become fixed and people have given up hope of overcoming them. Sadly for Hegel, I'm not sure his later work managed to convince everyone that all the dichotomies have been overcome. But it's a noble aim.
His criticisms of Fichte are impenetrable, but yield the odd nugget of gold, particularly when he attacks Fichte's practical philosophy as giving us a world of atomized individuals ruled over in every interaction by cops and politicians. He's much too soft on Schelling (but made up for it with the 'night in which all cows are black line' in the Phenomenology.) And the ending section on Reinhold is of use only to people who care about Reinhold, i.e., four or five people alive today.

I didn't read the translator's substantial introductions, but they're probably quite helpful, especially as to the more arcane points in Schelling's thought. For instance, the claim that "electricity, reconstructed from the inside, posits the sexual difference of organisms," p 169. Indeed it does, Mr Hegel. Indeed it does. ( )