The Bed-Book of Happiness / Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired

by Harold Begbie

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