BENTLEY'S
MISCELLANY.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1837.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

ADDRESS.

Twelve months have elapsed since we first took the field, and every successive number of our Miscellany has experienced a warmer reception, and a more extensive circulation, than its predecessor.

In the opening of the new year, and the commencement of our new volume, we hope to make many changes for the better, and none for the worse; and, to show that, while we have one grateful eye to past patronage, we have another wary one to future favours; in short, that, like the heroine of the sweet poem descriptive of the faithlessness and perjury of Mr. John Oakhum, of the Royal Navy, we look two ways at once.

It is our intention to usher in the new year with a very merry greeting, towards the accomplishment of which end we have prevailed upon a long procession of distinguished friends to mount their hobbies on the occasion, in humble imitation of those adventurous and aldermanic spirits who gallantly bestrode their foaming chargers on the memorable ninth of this present month, while

"The stones did rattle underneath,

As if Cheapside were mad."

These, and a hundred other great designs, preparations, and surprises, are in contemplation, for the fulfilment of all of which we are already bound in two volumes cloth, and have no objection, if it be any additional security to the public, to stand bound in twenty more.

BOZ.

30th November, 1837.

CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.

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Songs of the Month—July, by "Father Prout;" August; September, by "Father Prout;" October, by J.M.; November, by C.D.; December, by PunchPages [1], [109], [213], [321], [429], [533]
Papers by Boz:
Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress,[2], [110], [215], [430], [534]
The Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything[397]
Poetry by Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson:
Elegiac Stanzas[16]
Lady Blue's Ball[380]
My Father's Old Hall[453]
Fictions of the Middle Ages: The Butterfly Bishop, by Delta[17]
A New Song to the Old Tune of Kate Kearney[25]
What Tom Binks did when he didn't know what to do with himself[26]
A Gentleman Quite[36]
The Foster-Child[37]
The White Man's Devil-house, by F.H. Rankin[46]
A Lyric for Lovers[50]
The Remains of Hajji Baba, by the Author of "Zohrab"[51], [166]
Shakspeare Papers, by Dr. Maginn:
No. III. Romeo[57]
IV. Midsummer Night's Dream—Bottom the Weaver[370]
V. His Ladies—Lady Macbeth[550]
The Piper's Progress, by Father Prout[67]
Papers by J.A. Wade:
No. II. Darby the Swift[68]
III. The Darbiad[464]
Song of the Old Bell[196]
Serenade to Francesca[239]
Phelim O'Toole's Nine Muse-ings on his Native County[319]
Papers by Captain Medwin:
The Duel[76]
Mascalbruni[254]
The Last of the Bandits[585]
The Monk of Ravenne[81]
A Marine's Courtship, by M. Burke Honan[82]
Family Stories, by Thomas Ingoldsby:
No. VI. Mrs. Botherby's Story—The Leech of Folkestone[91]
VII. Patty Morgan the Milkmaid's Story—Look at the Clock[207]
What though we were Rivals of yore, by T. Haynes Bayly[124]
Papers by the Author of "Stories of Waterloo:"
Love in the City[125]
The Regatta, No. I.: Run Across Channel[299]
Legends—of Ballar; the Church of the Seven; and the Tory
Islanders[527]
Three Notches from the Devil's Tail, or the Man in the Spanish Cloak, by the Author of "Reminiscences of a Monthly Nurse"[135]
The Serenade[149]
The Portrait Gallery, by the Author of "The Bee Hive"
No. III. The Cannon Family[150]
IV. Journey to Boulogne[454]
A Chapter on Laughing[163]
A Muster-chaunt for the Members of the Temperance Societies[165]
My Uncle: a Fragment[175]
Why the Wind blows round St. Paul's, by Joyce Jocund[176]
Papers by C. Whitehead:
Rather Hard to Take[181]
The Narrative of John Ward Gibson[240]
Nights at Sea, by the Old Sailor:
No. IV. The French Captain's Story[183]
V. The French Captain's Story[471]
VI. Jack among the Mummies[610]
Midnight Mishaps, by Edward Mayhew[197]
The Dream[206]
Genius, or the Dog's-meat Dog, by Egerton Webbe[214]
The Poisoners of the Seventeenth Century, by George Hogarth:
No. I. The Marchioness de Brinvilliers[229]
II. Sir Thomas Overbury[322]
Smoke[268]
Some Passages in the Life of a Disappointed Man[270]
The Professor, by Goliah Gahagan[277]
Biddy Tibbs, who cared for Nobody, by H. Holl[288]
The Key of Granada[303]
Glorvina, the Maid of Meath, by J. Sheridan Knowles[304]
An Excellent Offer, by Marmaduke Blake[340]
The Autobiography of a Good Joke[354]
The Secret, by M. Paul de Kock[360]
The Man with the Club-foot[381]
A Remonstratory Ode to Mr. Cross on the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by Joyce Jocund[413]
Memoirs of Beau Nash[414]
Grub-street News[425]
The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman[445]
The Relics of St. Pius[462]
A few Inquiries[470]
Lines occasioned by the Death of Count Borowlaski[484]
A Chapter on Widows[485]
Petrarch in London[494]
Adventures in Paris, by Toby Allspy:
The Five FloorsNo. I. [495]; No. II. [575]
Martial in Town[507]
Astronomical Agitation—Reform of the Solar System[508]
The Adventures of a Tale, by Mrs. Erskine Norton[511]
When and Why the Devil Invented Brandy[518]
The Wit in spite of Himself, by Richard Johns[521]
The Apportionment of the World, from Schiller[549]
Ode to the Queen[568]
Suicide[569]
The Glories of Good Humour[591]
Song of the Modern Time[594]
Capital Punishments in London Eighty Years ago—Earl Ferrers[595]
A Peter Pindaric to and of a Fog, by Punch[606]
The Castle by the Sea[623]
Legislative Nomenclature[624]
Nobility in Disguise, by Dudley Costello[626]
Another Original of "Not a Drum was heard,"[632]
Index[633]