They are diverse, to suit all tastes; and if this, my venture, is successful, I may bashfully hint that my store is not yet exhausted.

JOHN ASHTON.


CONTENTS.

PAGE
[A Forgotten Fanatic]1
[A Fashionable Lady’s Life]17
[George Barrington]31
[Milton’s Bones]55
[The True Story of Eugene Aram]83
[Redemptioners]112
[A Trip to Richmond in Surrey]131
[George Robert Fitzgerald]135
[Eighteenth Century Amazons]177
[‘The Times’ and its Founder]203
[Imprisonment for Debt]227
[Jonas Hanway]254
[A Holy Voyage to Ramsgate One Hundred Years Ago]278
[Quacks of the Century]287
[Cagliostro in London]333

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WAIFS.


A FORGOTTEN FANATIC.[1]