Knights and their days

by Dr. Doran

WIT AND WISDOM

OF THE

REV. SYDNEY SMITH:

BEING

SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS,

AND PASSAGES OF HIS

LETTERS AND TABLE TALK.

With Notes, and a Biographical Memoir,

By EVERT A. DUYCKINCK.

A Portrait, after G. Stewart Newton,

AND AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER.

In One Volume, 12mo, Cloth, Price $1.25.

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The chief writings of the Rev. Sydney Smith are included in the original English editions in eight octavo volumes. These are his “Two Volumes of Sermons,” 1809; the Collection of his “Works,” (embracing articles from the Edinburgh Review, the Plymley Letters, and other Papers) 4 vols., 1839-40; a posthumous volume, “Sermons preached at St. Paul’s,” &c., 1846; “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, delivered at the Royal Institution,” published in 1850. To these are to be added, “Letters on American Debts,” 1843; “A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church,” 1845; Letters on Railway Management and other topics to the Morning Chronicle; Articles in the Edinburgh Review not collected in his “Works”; numerous Sketches and Essays printed in the “Memoirs,” by his daughter, Lady Holland; and the extensive series of “Letters,” edited by Mrs. Austin. These have mainly furnished the material of the present volume. In the preparation of the Table Talk, Memoir, and Notes, many collateral sources have been drawn upon.

The most important of Sydney Smith’s Writings will here be found given entire; while the selection generally presents the most characteristic passages of his “Wit and Wisdom” from the whole. Numerous Miscellanies, of much interest, are included which are not to be met with in any previous collection of the author’s works.

Contents.

Biographical Memoir, by the Editor.

Articles from the Edinburgh Review, (including the Papers on Female Education, Professional Education, Notices of America, &c., &c.)

Sketches of Moral Philosophy, (including the Essays on the Conduct of the Understanding; on Wit and Humor, &c., &c.)

The Peter Plymley Letters.

Passages from Sermons.

Speeches on the Reform-Bill. The Ballot.

Letters on American Debts.

Passages from Letters on the Ecclesiastical Commission.

A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church.

Letters on Railway Management.

Character of Sir James Mackintosh and of Francis Horner.

Practical Essays, &c.

Passages from Letters.

Table Talk. Personal, &c., &c.

DR. DORAN’S WORKS.

Table Traits, with Something on them. By Dr. Doran, Author of “Habits and Men,” &c., &c. 12mo., cloth. Price $1 25. Half calf, or mor. ex., $2 25.

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The Legend of Amphitryon—A Prologue.
Diet and Digestion.—Water—Breakfast,
Corn, Bread, &c.—Tea—Coffee—Chocolate.
The Old Coffee House.—The French Cafés.
The Ancient Cook and his Art.
The Modern Cook and his Science.
Pen and Ink Sketches of Careme.
Dinner Traits.—The Materials for Dining.
A Light Dinner for Two.—Sauces.
The Parasite.
Table Traits of Utopia and the Golden Age.
Table Traits of England in the Early Times.
Table Traits of the Last Century.
Wine and Water.
The Birth of the Vine, and what has come of it.
The Making and Marring of Wine.
Imperial Drinkers, and Incidents in Germany.—An
Incident of Travel.
A few odd Glasses of Wine. [Egyptian]
The Tables of the Ancient and Modern
The Diet of the Saints of Old.
The Bridal and Banquet of Ferques.
The Support of Modern Saints.
The Cæsars at Table.
Their Majesties at Meat.
English Kings at their Tables.
Strange Banquets—The Castellan Von Coucy.
Authors and their Dietetics.
The Liquor-loving Laureates.
Supper.

Nearly every page contains something amusing, and you may shut the book in the middle, and open it again after a twelvemonth’s interval, without at all compromising its power of affording enjoyment.—The London Times.

Habits and Men, with Remnants of Record touching the Makers of both. By Dr. Doran, author of “Table Traits,” &c., &c. 12mo., cloth, $1. Half calf, or mor. extra, $2 00.

CONTENTS.

Between You and Me.
Man Manners, and a Story with a Moral to it.
Adonis at Home and Abroad—Pt. I.—Pt. II.
Remnants of Stage Dresses.
Three Acts and an Epilogue.
The Tiring-Bowers of Queens “La Mode
in her Birth-place.”
Hats, Wigs and their Wearers.
Beards and their Bearers.—Swords.
Gloves, B—s, and Buttons.—Stockings.
“Masks and Faces.”
Puppets for Grown Gentlemen.
Touching Tailors.
The Tailors Measured by the Poets.
Sir John Hawkwood, the Heroic Tailor.
Why did the Tailors choose St. William for
their Patron?
George Dörfling, the Martial Tailor.
Admiral Hobson, the Naval Tailor.
John Stow, the Antiquarian Tailor.
John Speed, the Antiquarian Tailor.
Samuel Pepys, the Official Tailor.
Richard Ryan, the Theatrical Tailor.
Paul Whitehead, the Poet Tailor.
Mems. of “Merchant Tailors.”
Chapters on Beaux.
The Beaux of the Olden Time.
Beau Fielding—Beau Nash.
The Prince de Ligne—Beau Brummel.
Doctors Ready Dressed—Odd Fashions.

This is one of the most amusing and erudite books of the day, abounding in anecdote and queer stories of the dress of different ages, of kings and queens, poets, statesmen, tailors, &c. The sketches of the “tiring-bowers” of queens, of Paul Whitehead, the poet tailor; of Beau Nash, and Beau Fielding, are rich in lore, and are produced in sparkling style.—Boston Courier.

The Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover. By Dr. Doran. 2 vols., 12mo., cloth, $2. Half calf, or mor. extra, $4 00.

CONTENTS.

Sophia Dorothea, Wife of George I.
Caroline Wilhelmina Dorothea, Wife of George II.
Charlotte, Wife of George III.
Caroline of Brunswick, Wife of George IV.

Dr. Doran has availed himself of the ample material scattered through personal memoirs, pamphlets, periodicals, and other fugitive literature of the time, with the thoroughness, quick eye for humor, and appreciation of the picturesque, which characterize his other amusing works.