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CONTENTS.

[PART I. HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS.]
I.[Ladies in Law Colleges]
II.[The Last of the Ladies]
III.[York House and Powis House]
IV.[Lincoln's Inn Fields]
V.[ The Old Law Quarter]
[PART II. LOVES OF THE LAWYERS.]
VI.[A Lottery]
VII.[Good Queen Bess]
VIII.[Rejected Addresses]
IX.["Cicero" upon His Trial]
X.[Brothers in Trouble]
XI.[Early Marriages]
[PART III. MONEY.]
XII.[Fees to Counsel]
XIII.[Retainers, General and Special]
XIV.[Judicial Corruption]
XV.[Gifts and Sales]
XVI.[A Rod Pickled by William Cole ]
XVII.[Chief Justice Popham]
XVIII.[Judicial Salaries]
[PART IV. COSTUME AND TOILET.]
XIX.[Bright and Sad ]
XX.[Millinery ]
XXI.[Wigs]
XXII.[Bands and Collars]
XXIII.[Bags and Gowns]
XXIV.[Hats]
[PART V. MUSIC.]
XXV.[The Piano in Chambers]
XXVI.[The Battle of the Organs]
XXVII.[The Thickness in the Throat]
[PART VI. AMATEUR THEATRICALS.]
XXVIII.[Actors at The Bar]
XXIX.["The Play's The Thing" ]
XXX.[The River and the Strand by Torchlight ]
XXXI.[Anti-Prynne]
XXXII.[An Empty Grate]
[PART VII. LEGAL EDUCATION]
XXXIII.[Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery]
XXXIV.[Lawyers and Gentlemen]
XXXV.[Law-French and Law-Latin]
XXXVI.[Student Life in Old Time]
XXXVII.[Readers and Mootmen ]
XXXVIII.[Pupils in Chambers ]
[PART VIII. MIRTH.]
XXXIX.[Wit of Lawyers]
XL.[Humorous Stories]
XLI.[Wits in 'silk' and Punsters in 'ermine']
XLII.[Witnesses]
XLIII.[Circuiteers]
XLIV.[Lawyers and Saints]
[PART IX. AT HOME: IN COURT: AND IN SOCIETY.]
XLV.[Lawyers at their Own Tables]
XLVI.[Wine]
XLVII.[Law and Literature]

PART I.

HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS.