INDEX OF TITLES

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Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous Robert Burns[86]
Advanced Thinker, An Brander Matthews[282]
Æsthete, The W. S. Gilbert[260]
All-Saints Edmund Yates[237]
Anglicised Utopia W. S. Gilbert[252]
Annuity, The George Outram[156]
Ape and the Lady, The W. S. Gilbert[250]
Ass’s Legacy, The Rutebœuf[7]
Atlantic City H. C. Bunner[290]

Ballade of Expansion
Hilda Johnson		[331]
Ballade of Literary Fame Andrew Lang[274]
Ballade of Old-Time Ladies, A (Translated by John Payne) François Villon[11]
Battle of Blenheim, The Robert Southey[97]
Beauties of Nature, The Anthony C. Deane[317]
Bird in the Hand, A Frederick E. Weatherly[281]
Boston Lullaby, A James Jeffrey Roche[277]
British Visitor, The From the Trollopiad[343]
Butterfly of Fashion, A Oliver Herford[322]

Cacoëthes Scribendi
Oliver Wendell Holmes		[166]
Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit, A Sir David Lyndsay[12]
Certain Cure, A Anthony C. Deane[316]
Character of Holland, The Andrew Marvell[35]
Chorus of Anglomaniacs (From “The Buntling Ball”) Edgar Fawcett[275]
Chorus of Women Aristophanes[3]
Christmas Out of Town James Smith[103]
Cockle v. Cackle Thomas Hood[140]
Cologne Samuel T. Coleridge[96]
Conservative, A Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman[304]
Constant Lover, The Sir John Suckling[27]
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes[171]
Conundrum of the Workshops, The Rudyard Kipling[326]
Country House Party, A Lord Byron[127]
Country Squire, The Tomas Yriarte[80]
Critics Elizabeth Barrett Browning[164]
Cui Bono? Thomas Carlyle[135]
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public Charles Mackay[192]

Damages, Two Hundred Pounds
William Makepeace Thackeray		[182]
Description of Holland Samuel Butler[30]
Devil at Home, The Thomas Kibble Hervey[149]
Diamond Wedding, The Edmund Clarence Stedman[240]
Distiches John Hay[264]
Dr. Delany’s Villa Thomas Sheridan[52]
Duke of Buckingham, The John Dryden[37]

Earth
Oliver Herford		[321]
Eggs, The Tomas Yriarte[83]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An Oliver Goldsmith[72]
Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole, An Henry Fielding[65]
Epitaph, An George John Cayley[64]
Epitaph, An Matthew Prior[43]
Eternal London Thomas Moore[105]
Etiquette W. S. Gilbert[254]
Evolution of a “Name,” The Charles Battell Loomis[310]
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne Gelett Burgess[328]

Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A
William Cowper		[74]
Fame James Herbert Morse[269]
Fame’s Penny Trumpet Lewis Carroll[238]
Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, A Oliver Wendell Holmes[167]
Fate of Pious Dan, The Samuel Walter Foss[298]
Father-Land and Mother-Tongue Samuel Lover[135]
Father Molloy Samuel Lover[136]
Five Lives Edward Rowland Sill[270]
Font in the Forest, The Herman Knickerbocker Vielé[294]
Fragment, A Grace Greenwood[212]
Friar of Orders Gray, The John O’Keefe[79]
Friday Afternoon at the Boston Symphony Hall Faulkner Armytage[332]
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The George Canning[92]
From “A Fable for Critics” James Russell Lowell[201]
From “As You Like It” Shakespeare[22]
From “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” Lord Byron[125]
From “King Henry IV.” Shakespeare[20]
From “Love’s Labour’s Lost” Shakespeare[21]
From “The Devil’s Drive” Lord Byron[123]
From “The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Alexander Pope[60]
From “The Feast of the Poets” James Henry Leigh Hunt[116]
From “The House of a Hundred Lights” Frederic Ridgely Torrence[340]
From “The Love of Fame” Edward Young[50]
Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The Jonathan Swift[48]

Gaffer Gray (From “Hugh Trevor”)
Thomas Holcroft		[139]
General Summary Rudyard Kipling[324]
Giles’ Hope Samuel T. Coleridge[96]
Give Me a Theme Richard Watson Gilder[274]
Great Critics, The Charles Mackay[193]
Greediness Punished Friedrich Rückert[130]

He and She
Eugene Fitch Ware		[272]
Hem and Haw Bliss Carman[307]
Hen, The Matthew Claudius[77]
Hiding the Skeleton George Meredith[229]
Hoch! der Kaiser Rodney Blake[320]
Holy Willie’s Prayer Robert Burns[88]
Horace Concocting an Ode Thomas Dekker[23]
How to Make a Man of Consequence Mark Lemon[173]
How To Make a Novel Lord Charles Neaves[150]
“Hurt that Honour Feels, The” Owen Seaman[310]

Introduction to the True-Born Englishman
Daniel Defoe		[41]

Job
Samuel T. Coleridge		[95]
John Jenkins Anthony C. Deane[313]

King of Yvetot, The (Version of W. M. Thackeray)
Pierre Jean De Béranger		[109]
Kitty of Coleraine Edward Lysaght[91]

Latest Decalogue, The
Arthur Hugh Clough		[200]
Laureate, The William E. Aytoun[194]
Let Us All Be Unhappy Together Charles Dibdin[78]
Life in Laconics Mary Mapes Dodge[263]
Lines Stephen Crane[337]
Lines by an Old Fogy Anonymous[348]
Literary Lady, The Richard Brinsley Sheridan[84]
Lost Leader, The Robert Browning[186]
Love-Letter, The Austin Dobson[267]
Lying Thomas Moore[108]

Malbrouck
Translated by Father Prout		[161]
Manly Heart, The George Wither[26]
Man’s Requirements, A Elizabeth Barrett Browning[163]
Match, A Punch[343]
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The Samuel Walter Foss[300]
Midges Robert Bulwer Lytton[230]
Miser, The Edward Fitzgerald[166]
Modern Puffing System, The Thomas Moore[106]
Modest Wit, A Selleck Osborn[112]
Mourner à la Mode, The John Godfrey Saxe[197]
Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account of the Coronation Richard Harris Barham[119]
Mr. Molony’s Account of the Ball Given to the
Nepaulese Ambassador by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company		 William Makepeace Thackeray[179]
My Lord Tomnoddy Robert Barnabas Brough[227]

Net of Law, The
James Jeffrey Roche		[277]
Nora’s Vow Sir Walter Scott[94]
Nothing to Wear William Allen Butler[213]

Of a Certain Man
Sir John Harrington		[16]
Of Propriety Charles Stuart Calverley[235]
On a Magazine Sonnet Russell Hilliard Loines[321]
On Don Surly Ben Jonson[24]
On Johnson John Wolcott (Peter Pindar)[75]
On Lytton Alfred Tennyson[177]
On Shadwell John Dryden[38]
On Smollett Charles Churchill[73]
Origin of Sin, The Samuel Walter Foss[294]
Our Village Thomas Hood[145]
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley[134]

Paradise. A Hindoo Legend
George Birdseye		[319]
Pauper’s Drive, The Thomas Noel[175]
Peace: A Study Charles Stuart Calverley[236]
Pelters of Pyramids Richard Hengist Horne[155]
Philosopher, A Samuel Walter Foss[295]
Philosopher’s Scales, The Jane Taylor[114]
Pious Editor’s Creed, The James Russell Lowell[206]
Poem to the Critic, The Richard Watson Gilder[274]
Poet and the Critics, The Austin Dobson[265]
Poet of Fashion, The James Smith[101]
Pope and the Net, The Robert Browning[188]
Positivists, The Mortimer Collins[225]
Precise Tailor, A Sir John Harrington[16]
Public Breakfast, The Christopher Anstey[67]

Quidnunckis, The
John Gay		[54]

Religion of Hudibras, The
Samuel Butler		[31]
Remedy Worse Than the Disease, The Matthew Prior[45]
Remonstrance, The Sir John Suckling[28]
Reporters George Crabbe[85]
Revelry in India Bartholomew Dowling[210]
Review, A Bayard Taylor[221]
Rich and Poor; or, Saint and Sinner Thomas L. Peacock[117]
Rich and the Poor Man, The (From the
Russian of Kremnitzer)		 Sir John Bowring[132]

Sailor’s Consolation, The
William Pitt		[152]
Saintship versus Conscience Samuel Butler[29]
Same Old Story Harry B. Smith[306]
Sandys’ Ghost Alexander Pope[57]
Satire on Edward Howard Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset[39]
Satire on the Scots John Cleiveland[32]
Sceptics, The Bliss Carman[308]
Scholar and His Dog, The John Marston[25]
Schoolmaster Abroad with His Son, The Charles Stuart Calverley[233]
Sick Man and the Angel, The John Gay[55]
Sky-Making Mortimer Collins[226]
Sleep On W. S. Gilbert[249]
Sly Lawyers George Crabbe[85]
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning[190]
Song Richard Lovelace[34]
Sonnet, A J. K. Stephen[284]
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray[178]
Soul’s Errand, The Sir Walter Raleigh[13]
St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes Abraham á Sancta-Clara[39]
Sympathy Reginald Heber[111]

There Is No God
Arthur Hugh Clough		[199]
They Said Edith M. Thomas[284]
Thought, A J. K. Stephen[283]
Three Black Crows John Byrom[63]
Thursday Frederick Edward Weatherly[280]
To Boswell John Wolcott (Peter Pindar)[76]
To Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Richard Kendall Munkittrick[287]
To R. K. J. K. Stephen[286]
To the Terrestrial Globe W. S. Gilbert[240]
To Woman Lord Byron[126]
Too Late Fitz-Hugh Ludlow[261]
Tool, The Richard Watson Gilder[273]
True to Poll Frank C. Burnand[247]
Twelve Articles Jonathan Swift[46]
Two Characters Henry Taylor[151]

Uncertain Man, The
William Cowper		[74]

V-a-s-e, The
James Jeffrey Roche		[278]
Verses on Seeing the Speaker Asleep in His
Chair During One of the Debates of the
First Reformed Parliament		 Winthrop M. Praed[154]

Wanted—A Governess
Anonymous		[346]
War Is Kind Stephen Crane[336]
Wed H. C. Bunner[289]
Wedded Bliss Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman[303]
Well of St. Keyne, The Robert Southey[99]
What Will We Do? Robert J. Burdette[272]
What’s In a Name? Richard Kendall Munkittrick[288]
Widow Malone, The Charles Lever[173]
Will, The John Donne[18]
Wish for Length of Life, The Juvenal[6]
Woman Fitz-Greene Halleck[132]
Woman’s Will John Godfrey Saxe[196]
Would-be Literary Bore, A Horace[4]