CONTENTS.

[WEALTH AND FASHION.]

PAGE
[The Beckfords and Fonthill]1
[Alderman Beckford's Monument Speech in Guildhall]19
[Beau Brummel]22
[Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart]36
["Romeo" Coates]41
[Abraham Newland]44
[The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton]48
[Lord Petersham]55
[The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands]57
[Sir Edward Dering's Luckless Courtship]59
[Gretna-Green Marriages]63
[The Agapemone, or Abode of Love]68
[Singular Scotch Ladies]70
[Mrs. Bond, of Hackney]72
[John Ward, the Hackney Miser]74
["Poor Man of Mutton"]76
[Lord Kenyon's Parsimony]77
[Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter]78
[The Eccentric Miss Banks]80
[Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville]82
[Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant]87
["Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell]89
[Profits of Dust-sifting and Dust-heaps]92
[Sir John Dinely, Bart.]95
[The Rothschilds]96
[A Legacy of Half-a-Million of Money]99
[Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater]103
[The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family]105
["Dog Jennings"]107
[Baron Ward's Remarkable Career] 109
[A Costly House-Warming]112
[Devonshire Eccentrics]113
[Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier]116
[Lady Archer] 122

[DELUSIONS, IMPOSTURES, AND FANATIC
MISSIONS.]

[Modern Alchemists]124
[Jack Adams, the Astrologer]130
[The Woman-hating Cavendish]132
["Modern Astrology.—"Witch Pickles""]136
[Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob"]139
[Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope]141
[Hermits and Eremitical Life]145
[The Recluses of Llangollen]155
[Snuff-taking Legacies]158
[Burial Bequests]159
[Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill]163
[Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains] 166
["The Marquis of Anglesey's Leg"]169
[The Cottle Church]171
[Horace Walpole's Chattels saved by a Talisman]174
[Norwood Gipsies]177
["Cunning Mary," of Clerkenwell]179
["Jerusalem Whalley"]181
[Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement] 182
[Eccentric Preachers]184
[Irving a Millenarian]187
[A Trio of Fanatics]189
[The Spenceans]197
[Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh]198
[The Founder of Mormonism]210
[Huntington, the Preacher]219
[Amen—Peter Isnell]231
[Strangely Eccentric, yet Sane]232
[Strange Hallucination]236
["Corner Memory Thompson"]238
[Mummy of a Manchester Lady]239
[Hypochondriasis]240

[STRANGE SIGHTS AND SPORTING SCENES.]

["The Wonder of all the Wonders that the World]243
ever Wondered at"
["The Princess Caraboo"]246
[Fat Folks.—Lambert and Bright]249
[A Cure for Corpulence]256
[Epitaphs on Fat Folks]257
[Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf]258
[The Irish Giant]270
[Birth Extraordinary]271
[William Hutton's "Strong Woman"]274
[Wildman and his Bees]276
[Lord Stowell's Love of Sight-seeing] 277
[John Day and Fairlop Fair]280
[A Princely Hoax]283
[Sir John Waters's Escape]285
[Colonel Mackinnon's Practical Joking]287
[A Gourmand Physician]288
[Dick England, the Gambler]290
[Brighton Races, Thirty Years since]292
[Colonel Mellish]294
[Doncaster Eccentrics]296
["Walking Stewart"]300
[Youthful Days of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley] 304
[What became of the Seven Dials]310
[An Old Bailey Character]312
[Bone and Shell Exhibition]317
["Quid Rides?"]318
["Bolton Trotters"]319
[Eccentric Lord Coleraine]321
[Eccentric Travellers]323
[Elegy on a Geologist]328

[ECCENTRIC ARTISTS.]

[Gilray and his Caricatures]330
[William Blake, Painter and Poet] 339
[Nollekens, the Sculptor]350