CONTENTS
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON:
The Lost Ornament 191
ANONYMOUS:
The Gentle Reader 14
King David and the Gardener 198
Sabbath Bells 275
From the Greek Anthology 313
Letter from an Indian Gentleman to an
English Friend 324
A Babu Letter 327
Mary Powell 341
A Tur'ble Chap 374
After Mr. Masefield 384
Hits and Misses 443
The Broken Window 443
BAGEHOT, WALTER:
Letters 212
BALMANNO, MRS.:
Charles and his Sister 193
BETHAM, M.M.:
Miss Pate 190
BOSWELL:
Dr. Johnson at Court 346
BROOKFIELD, W.H.:
Mr. Brookfield in his Youth 376
BROWN, T.E.:
Letters of T.E. Brown 85
BUTLER, SAMUEL:
Clergyman and Chickens 15
Melchisedec 15
Eating and Proselytising 15
Sea-sickness 17
Assimilation and Persecution 17
Night-shirts and Babies 17
Does Mamma Know? 18
Croesus and his Kitchen-maid 19
Adam and Eve 24
Fire 24
The Electric Light in its Infancy 25
New-laid Eggs 25
Snapshotting a Bishop 26
BYRON:
Apples 359
CALVERLEY, CHARLES:
Visions 99
The Schoolmaster Abroad with his Son 174
Motherhood 257
"Forever" 337
CARLYLE:
Richter 1
CARROLL, LEWIS:
The Author of "Alice" 378
CHESTERTON, G.K.:
The Wisdom of G.K.C. 140
COBBETT, WILLIAM:
His Marriage 230
Life at Botley 233
His Children 237
DAUDET, ALPHONSE:
Tartarin de Tarascon 176
DICKENS, CHARLES:
Shy Neighbourhoods 70
The Calais Night-boat 200
Mr. Testator 329
DOBSON, AUSTIN:
The Secrets of the Heart 34
To "Lydia Languish" 137
The Cap that Fits 240
A Garden Idyll 286
Love in Winter 353
From the Ballad à-la-Mode 417
FITZGERALD, EDWARD:
Letters of Fitz 127
GASKELL, MRS.:
Cranford 291
GRONOW, CAPTAIN:
Sir John Waters 47
Lord Westmoreland 51
Colonel Kelly and his Blacking 52
John Kemble 53
Rogers and Luttrell 54
The Pig-faced Lady 57
Hoby, the Bootmaker, of St. James's Street 58
Harrington House and Lord Petersham 60
Lord Alvanley 61
Sally Lunn 66
"Monk" Lewis 67
HAYDON, B.R.:
Haydon's Immortal Night 181
H.B.:
Miss Stipp of Plover's Court 385
Two Old Gentlemen 424
HAZLITT:
Persons one would wish to have seen 180
Hobson's Choice 279
Wit and Laughter 351
HOLE, DEAN:
"The Vulgar Tongue" 146
The Happy Dean 249
HOOD:
The Carelesse Nurse Mayd 69
"Please to Ring the Belle" 248
Sally Simpkin's Lament; or John Jones's
Kit-cat-astrophe 307
"Love, with a Witness!" 328
Ode to Peace 404
INGOLDSBY:
Hints for an Historical Play; to be called
William Rufus; or, the Red Rover 122
The Tragedy 214
New-made Honour 312
J.B.:
Elia's Tail 192
JOHNSON, SAMUEL:
Music 402
Neatness in Excess 402
A Young Lady's "Needs" 403
"Irene" 403
JONSON, BEN:
The Woodcraft of Jonson 253
KEATS:
To his Brother 186
LAMB, CHARLES:
"Sixpenny Jokes" 185
Lamb's Task 186
In a Coach 197
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE:
Landorisms 350
LEIGH, HENRY S.:
Where—and oh! Where? 33
The Answer of Lady Clara Vere de Vere 252
LEWES, G.H.:
Goethe's Mother 28
MACAULAY, LORD:
"Boswell and Johnson" 102
Macaulay's Wit 290
MERIVALE, CHARLES:
From the Greek Anthology 313
MONTAIGNE:
Odours and Moustaches 415
PERCY ANECDOTES:
The Great Condé 2
A Classical Ass 3
Memory 4
"Come in Here" 4
A Pope Innocent 5
A Good Paraphrase 5
Irish Priest 6
A Digression 7
Fortune-teller 7
Gasconades 8
Tribute to Beauty 8
Begging Quarter 9
Gascon Reproved 9
Absent Man 11
Pride 12
Witty Coward 12
Valuing Beauty 12
Pro Aris et Focis 14
PRIOR, MATTHEW:
Epigrams 345
RELIGIO MEDICI:
The Happiness of Sir Thomas Browne 244
RICHTER:
Theisse 1
Broken Studies 1
ROBINSON, CRABB:
Your Hat, Sir 191
SAINTE-BEUVE:
The Charming Frenchman: Bossuet, Rousseau,
Joubert, Mme D'Houdetot, Mme de
Rémusat, Diderot, La Bruyère 269
SELDEN, JOHN:
Table-talk of John Selden 309
SMITH, ALEXANDER:
Dreamthorp 418
SMITH, SYDNEY:
A Little Moral Advice 360
Mrs. Partington 363
STEPHEN, J.K.:
In a Visitor's Book 126
A Sonnet 345
STERNE:
The Supper 118
The Grace 120
Uncle Toby and the Fly 277
STOW:
Old London Sports 314
THACKERAY:
Letters from Thackeray 406
THOMSON, MISS E.G.:
Lewis Carroll 380
THOREAU:
Open Air 339
TWAIN, MARK:
British Festivities 38
Mark's Baby 139
Enigma 243
The Jumping Frog 259
How Mark was Sold 310
A Newspaper Paragraph 335
Mental Photographs 354
How Mark edited an Agricultural Paper 365
WALPOLE, HORACE:
Chatter of a Dilettante 221
WALTON, IZAAK:
Angling Cheer 356
WELLESLEY:
From the Greek Anthology (altered) 313