[THEATRICAL FOLKS.]

[The Young Roscius]363
[Hardham's "No. 37"] 368
[Rare Criticism]370
[The O. P. Riot]371
[Origin of "Paul Pry"]372
[Mrs. Garrick]374
[Mathews, a Spanish Ambassador]378
[Grimaldi, the Clown]382
[Munden's Last Performance]387
[Oddities of Dowton]389
[Liston in Tragedy]391
[Boyhood of Edmund Kean]398
[A Mysterious Parcel]400
[Masquerade Incident]402
[Mr. T. P. Cooke in Melodrama and Pantomime] 404
["Romeo and Juliet" in America]407
[The Mulberries, a Shakspearian Club]408
[Colley Cibber's Daughter]410
[An Eccentric Love-Passage]413
[True to the Text]415

[MEN OF LETTERS.]

[Monk Lewis]417
[Porson's Eccentricities]425
[Parriana: Oddities of Dr. Parr]435
[Oddities of John Horne Tooke]444
[Mr. Canning's Humour]451
[Peter Pindar.—Dr. Wolcot]460
[The Author of "Dr. Syntax"]472
[Mrs. Radcliffe and the Critics] 475
[Cool Sir James Mackintosh]478
[Eccentricities of Cobbett]481
[Heber, the Book-Collector]485
[Sir John Soane Lampooned]488
[Extraordinary Calculators]490
[Charles Lamb's Cottage at Islington]494
[Thomas Hood] 497
[A Witty Archbishop]504
[Literary Madmen]508
[A Perpetual-Motion Seeker]513
[The Romantic Duchess of Newcastle] 516
[Sources of Laughter]520

[CONVIVIAL ECCENTRICITIES.]

[Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall]525
[Old Islington Taverns]526
[The Oyster and Parched-Pea Club]529
[A Manchester Punch-House]530
["The Blue Key"]533
[Brandy in Tea]534
["The Wooden Spoon"]535
[A Tipsy Village]535
[What an Epicure Eats in his Life-Time] 536
[Epitaph on Dr. William Maginn]538
[Greenwich Dinners]539
[Lord Pembroke's Port Wine]540
[A Tremendous Bowl of Punch]541

[MISCELLANEA.]

[Long Sir Thomas Robinson]542
[Lord Chesterfield's Will]542
[An Odd Family]543
[An Eccentric Host]544
[Quackery Successful]545
[The Grateful Footpad]546
[A Notoriety of the Temple] 546
[A Ride in a Sedan]548
[Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament]549
[A Chancery Jeu-d'Esprit]551
[Hanging by Compact]553
[The Ambassador Floored]553
["The Dutch Mail"]554
[Bad Spelling]556
[A "Single Conspirator"]559
[A Miscalculation]560
[An Indiscriminate Collector] 561
[The Bishops' Saturday Night]563
["Rather Than Otherwise"]564
[Classic Soup Distribution]565
[Alphabet Single Rhymed]565
[Non Sequitur and Therefore]566