O tempora! O mores!—Juvenal.
The times are out of joint, O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set them right.-Shakespeare.
- Folding plate to face the title.
- Votaries of Fashion in the Temple of Folly.
- How to walk the Streets.
- The Art of Quizzing.
- How to keep up a conversation with yourself in the Public Streets.
- How to break a shop window with an umbrella.
- [Behaviour at table.]
- Notoriety, Singularity, Whimsical.
- Gentleman and Mad Author.
'I will allow you twelve shillings a week to be my amanuensis!—What do you think of that?'
How to look over your husband's hand while at cards, and find fault with him for losing.
The Nobleman and the little Shopkeeper.
Chesterfield Travestie, or School for Modern Manners.
1. How to keep up a conversation with yourself in the public streets.—An absent-minded orator (passing the Forum Debating Society), is rehearsing, with lavish declamatory action, his peroration to the amazement and alarm of the passers-by.
2. Notoriety.—A buck in a Jean-de-Brie. Singularity.—An antiquarian oddity in the costume of three-quarters of a century earlier than the fashion prevailing at the date of the drawing. Whimsical.—A dwarf of a woman wearing a cloak down to her toes, and peaked poke head-dress.
3. The Art of Quizzing.—Three dandies are promenading arm-in-arm, and unceremoniously criticising aloud a fine and pretty woman, who is walking with a 'squab-old-put': 'D——d fine woman, pon honour, but what a quiz of a fellow she has taken in tow there!'