BOOKS AND AUTHORS:

Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. NIMMO.

EDINBURGH: MURRAY AND GIBB,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

CONTENTS

Ale, Bishop Still's Praise of[83]
A Learned Young Lady[149]
Alfieri's Hair[153]
Authors, Hard Fate of[59]
Authorship, Pains and Toils of[125]
Bad's the Best—Canning's Criticism[50]
"Beggar's Opera," Origin of the[140]
Bell, Death of Sir Charles [46]
Blue-Stocking Club, the [10]
Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap, Relics of[115]
Boileau's, A Carouse at[147]
Bolingbroke at Battersea[112]
Bolingbroke, his Creed[55]
Booksellers in Little Britain[27]
Boswell as the "Bear-leader"[118]
Boswell's "Life of Johnson"[99]
"Boz" (Dickens), Origin of the Word [99]
Bottled Ale, Accidental Origin of[49]
Bulwer's Pompeian Drawing-room [84]
Bunyan's Copy of the "Book of Martyrs"[53]
Bunyan's Escapes[57]
Bunyan's Preaching[56]
Burney, Miss, her "Evelina"[66]
Butler and Buckingham[143]
Byron, Lord, his Graceful Apology[39]
Byron's "Corsair"[26]
Byron and "My Grandmother's Review" [95]
Byron's Personal Vanity[37]
Canning, A Ludicrous Estimate of[50]
Chalmers'(Dr.) Industry [103]
Chalmers' Preaching in London[44]
Chances for the Drama[68]
Chatterton's Profit and Loss Reckoning[136]
Classical Pun, A[47]
"Clean Hands," Lord Brougham's[79]
Clever Statesmen, Swift on[116]
Cobbett's Boyhood[121]
Coleridge in the Dragoons[120]
Coleridge as a Unitarian Preacher[123]
Coleridge's "Watchman"[32]
Collins' Insanity[129]
Collins' Poor Opinion of his Poems[13]
Colton the Author of "Lacon" [52]
Conscience, A Composition with[133]
Copyrights, Value of some[65]
Cowley at Chertsey[108]
Cowper's "John Gilpin"[58]
Cowper's Poems, First Publication of[21]
Criticism, Sensitiveness to[142]
Curran's Imagination[107]
Dangerous Fools[84]
Day and his Model Wife[109]
Death-bed Revelations[49]
Dennis, Conceited Alarms of[132]
Devotion to Science[74]
Disadvantageous Correction, Lord North's[75]
Drollery must be Spontaneous[58]
Dryden Drubbed[151]
"Edinburgh Review," Origin of the[116]
Evelyn's Diary Discovered at Wotton[7]
"Felon Literature"[48]
Fielding's "Tom Jones"[78]
Fine Flourishes, Brougham's Rebuke of[39]
Flattery, Moderate[80]
Fontenelle's Insensibility[124]
Foote's Wooden Leg[88]
Fox and Gibbon[25]
French-English Jeu-de-mot[81]
Fuller's Memory[69]
Gibbon's House at Lausanne [98]
Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer"[43]
Haydn and the Ship Captain[138]
Haydn's Diploma Piece at Oxford[139]
Hearne's Love of Ale[22]
Hervey, Lord, his wit[69]
Hone's "Every-day Book"[56]
Hoole, the Translator of Tasso[36]
Hope's "Anastasius"[51]
Ireland's Shakspearian Forgeries[33]
Jerrold's Jokes, A String of[130]
Jerrold's Rebuke to a Rude Intruder [155]
Joe Miller at Court[128]
Johnson and Hannah More[11]
Johnson's Criticisms[97]
Johnson's Latest Contemporaries[105]
Johnson's Pretty Compliment to Mrs. Siddons[109]
Johnson's Pride[26]
Johnson's Residences and Resorts in London[77]
Johnson's Wigs[76]
Johnson and Lord Elibank[118]
Johnson, Relics of, at Lichfield[119]
"Junius," Rogers and[152]
"Junius' Letters," Who Wrote?[89]
Killing no Murder [141]
Lamb, Cary's Epitaph on[67]
Learning French, Brummell[102]
Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle[19]
Lewis's "Monk"[42]
Literary Coffee-houses in last Century[93]
Literary Dinners[17]
Literary Localities in London[55]
Literary Men, the Families of[9]
Locke's Rebuke to the Card-Playing Lords[137]
Lope de Vega's Popularity[29]
Lope de Vega's Voluminous Writings[28]
Lovelace, The Last Days of[134]
Mackintosh, Sir James, and Dr. Parr[28]
Mackintosh's Humour[28]
Magazine, the First[117]
Magazines, the Sale of[72]
Magna Charta recovered [25]
Mathematical Sailors[41]
Mermaid Club, The[144]
Milton, Relics of[113]
Mitford, Miss, her Farewell to Three-Mile Cross[12]
Moore's Anacreontic Invitation[70]
Moore's Epigram on Abbott[130]
Morris, Captain, his Songs[14]
Negroes at Home[130]
O'Connell's Opinion of the Authorship of "Junius"[92]
Patronage of Authors [100]
Patronage of Literature in France[75]
Payment in Kind[135]
Physiognomy of the French Revolutionists[45]
Poets in a Puzzle[71]
Poetry of the Sea, Campbell on the[47]
Pope, A Hard Hit at[150]
Popularity of the Pickwick Papers[18]
Porson's Memory[146]
Quid pro Quo, Turner's[51]
Reconciling the Fathers[27]
Regality of Genius [77]
Repartee, A Smart[52]
Rival Remembrance—Gilford and Hazlitt[88]
Romilly and Brougham[45]
Sale, the Translator of the Koran[133]
Shenstone, An Odd Present to[156]
Sheridans, The Two[141]
Sheridan's Careful Study of his Wit[23]
Silence no sure Sign of Wisdom[44]
Smith, James, one of the Authors of the
"Rejected Addresses" 		[60], [80]
Smollett's Hard Fortunes[154]
Smollett's History of England [24]
Smollett's "Hugh Strap"[13]
Snail Dinner, the[106]
Southey's Wife [73]
Stammering Witticism, Lamb's[49]
Sterne's Sermons[85]
Swift's Disappointed Life[18]
Swift's Three Loves[31]
Thomson's Indolence[148]
Thomson's Recitation of his Poetry[42]
"Times" Newspaper, Writing up the[114]
"Tom Cringle's Log," Authorship of [68]
Tom Hill[85]
Trimmer, Mrs.[117]
Tycho Brahe's Nose[87]
Voltairean Relics at Ferney, Sale of[79]
Waller, the Courtier-Poet[156]
Walton, Izaak, Relics of[82]
Washington Irving and Wilkie at the Alhambra[111]
"Waverley," the Authorship of[51]
Way to Win them, Walpole's[96]
Wycherley's Wooing [146]

NOTE.

This collection of anecdotes, illustrative sketches, and memorabilia generally, relating to the ever fresh and interesting subject of Books and Authors, is not presented as complete, nor even as containing all the choice material of its kind. The field from which one may gather is so wide and fertile, that any collection warranting such a claim would far exceed the compass of many volumes, much less of this little book. It has been sought to offer, in an acceptable and convenient form, some of the more remarkable or interesting literary facts or incidents with which one individual, in a somewhat extended reading, has been struck; some of the passages which he has admired; some of the anecdotes and jests that have amused him and may amuse others; some of the reminiscences that it has most pleased him to dwell upon. For no very great portion of the contents of this volume, is the claim to originality of subject-matter advanced. The collection, however, is submitted with some confidence that it may be found as interesting, as accurate, and as much guided by good taste, as it has been endeavoured to make it.