NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON

AND COMPANY

West Twenty-Third Street

CONTENTS

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Shakespeare at Charlecote Park[1]
Shakespeare at “Bank-side”[7]
The Epitaph of Sir Hugh Evans[13]
Bully Bottom’s Babes[22]
Shakespeare in China[28]
Solomon’s Ape[39]
The Castle Builders of Padua[46]
The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais[50]
The Wine Cellar: A “Morality”[58]
Recollections of Guy Fawkes[67]
Elizabeth and Victoria[75]
The Little Great and the Great Little[90]
The Manager’s Pig[95]
Some Account of a Stage Devil[103]
Fireside Saints[121]
Cat-and-Fiddle Moralities: The Tale of a Tiger[127]
A Gossip at Reculvers[140]
The Two Windows[150]
The Order of Poverty[154]
The Old Man at the Gate[166]
The Folly of the Sword[171]
The Greenwich Pensioner[181]
The Drill Sergeant[189]
The Handbook of Swindling[199]