WITH
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, PORTRAITS BY MACLISE AND D'ORSAY, CARICATURES, AND FACSIMILES
London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1883
[CONTENTS.]
| PAGE | ||
| Memoir of Theodore Hook | [3] | |
| The Ramsbottom Papers:— | ||
| I. | Mrs. Ramsbottom's Party | [41] |
| II. | Miss Lavinia Ramsbottom | [43] |
| III. | Miss Lavinia's Letter from Paris, forwarding her Mother's Journal in England and France | [44] |
| IV. | Higginbottom and Ramsbottom | [52] |
| V. | Miss Lavinia Ramsbottom forwards the Continuation of her Mother's Diary | [53] |
| VI. | Adventures at Paris | [60] |
| VII. | Further Adventures at Paris | [62] |
| VIII. | Mrs. Ramsbottom back in London | [66] |
| IX. | Mrs. Ramsbottom at Rome | [69] |
| X. | Mrs. Ramsbottom objects to be Dramatised | [72] |
| XI. | Mrs. Ramsbottom writes from Dieppe | [73] |
| XII. | Hastings | [75] |
| XIII. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on the House of Commons | [78] |
| XIV. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on the Canning Administration | [81] |
| XV. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on Smoking | [84] |
| XVI. | Mrs. Ramsbottom's Conundrums | [85] |
| XVII. | A Letter from Cheltenham | [87] |
| XVIII. | Hastings again | [90] |
| XIX. | News from Hastings | [94] |
| XX. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on the relative merits of Margate and Brighton | [96] |
| XXI. | Mrs. Ramsbottom contemplates the Collection of her Letters into a volume | [102] |
| XXII. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on Popery | [105] |
| XXIII. | Mrs. Ramsbottom at the Royal Academy | [108] |
| XXIV. | Mrs. Ramsbottom at the "Chiswick Fête" | [111] |
| XXV. | A Letter from Walmer | [117] |
| XXVI. | A Peck of Troubles | [118] |
| XXVII. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on Public Events | [120] |
| XXVIII. | Mrs. Ramsbottom declares herself a Convert to "Reform" | [123] |
| XXIX. | Mrs. Ramsbottom on the House of Lords | [128] |
| Political Songs and Squibs:— | |
| Carmen Æstuale | [133] |
| Ass-ass-ination | [135] |
| Michael's Dinner | [138] |
| Mrs. Muggins's Visit to the Queen | [140] |
| Hunting the Hare | [147] |
| The City Concert | [152] |
| Invitations to Dinner | [156] |
| Vacation Reminiscences | [159] |
| Reminiscences Continued | [162] |
| Gaffer Grey | [166] |
| The Idle Apprentice turned Informer | [170] |
| The Queen's Subscription | [174] |
| Opposition | [178] |
| The Invitation | [184] |
| The Beggars—A New Song | [188] |
| Bubbles of 1825 | [194] |
| The Grand Revolution | [197] |
| Imitation of Bunbury's "Little Grey Man" | [200] |
| Humpty-Dumpty | [203] |
| Parody—"While Johnny Gale Jones" | [204] |
| Parody—"The young May Moon" | [205] |
| Disappointment | [206] |
| Tentamen; or, an Essay towards the History of Whittington, some time Lord Mayor of London | [207] |
| Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose:— | |
| Mr. Ward's Allegorical Picture of Waterloo | [249] |
| Letter from a Goose | [259] |
| The Hum-Fum Gamboogee Society | [262] |
| Moral Theatricals | [269] |
| Private Correspondence of Public Men | [275] |
| The Cockney's Letter | [280] |
| Byroniana | [284] |
| Lord Wenables | [288] |
| Lord Wenables Again | [304] |
| Modern Improvements (Two Letters) | [309] |
| Punning, with Cautionary Verses to Youth of both Sexes | [316] |
| Fashionable Parties | [322] |
| A Day's Proceedings of a Reformed Parliament | [325] |
| Clubs | [333] |
| Rachel Stubbs' Letter to Richard Turner | [336] |
| Mr. Minus the Poet | [338] |
| National Distress | [339] |
| Hints for the Levee | [347] |
| The Inconsistencies of Cant | [350] |
| Prince Puckler-Muskau's Tour | [355] |
| Prospectus for a General Burying Company | [388] |
| Letter from John Trot to John Bull | [392] |
| The March of Intellect | [395] |
| Sunday Bills | [400] |
| The Spinster's Progress | [405] |
| Errors of the Press | [409] |
| The Visit to Wrigglesworth | [413] |
| A Visit to the Old Bailey | [440] |
| The Toothpick-makers' Company | [453] |
| The Man-servant's Letter | [464] |
| The Bibliomaniac | [468] |
| Absence of Mind | [469] |
| A Distinguished Traveller | [470] |
| Daly's Practical Jokes | [471] |
| The Ballet | [492] |
| Toll-gates and their Keepers | [496] |
| Tom Sheridan's Adventure | [499] |
| Polly Higginbottom | [503] |
| Song—"Mary once had Lovers two" | [504] |
| Philip and Donna Louisa | [505] |
| The Blacksmith | [506] |
| "My Father did so before me" | [507] |
| "Throughout my Life the Girls I've pleased" | [508] |
| The Chambermaid | [509] |
| Song, "When I was a very little Fellow" | [509] |
| Sir Tilbury Tott | [511] |
| "Venice Preserved" | [513] |
| Daylight Dinners | [515] |
| Clubs! | [516] |
| Visitings | [518] |
| The Quill Manufacturer | [522] |
| Epigram on Twining's Tea | [522] |
| On the Latin Gerunds | [522] |
| The Splendid Annual | [523] |
| Anecdotes, Hoaxes, and Jests:— | |
| The Berners-street Hoax | [539] |
| Romeo Coates | [541] |
| Hook, Mathews, and the Alderman | [542] |
| A Strange Dinner | [544] |
| Ludicrous Adventure at Sunbury | [547] |
| Charles Mathews and Hook | [552] |
| Hook's "First Appearance" | [553] |
| Hook and Dowton the Actor | [554] |
| Letter from Mauritius | [555] |
| Evading a Coach Fare | [557] |
| Unsuccessful Hunt for a Dinner | [559] |
| Hook at Lord Melville's Trial | [560] |
| The Thirty-nine Articles | [562] |
| "Chaffing" a Proctor | [562] |
| Summary Proceedings of Winter | [563] |
| "Something Wrong in the Chest" | [564] |
| Warren's Blacking | [564] |
| The Wine-cellar and the Book-seller | [565] |
| Sir Robert Peel's Anecdote of Theodore Hook | [565] |
| A Receipt against Night Air | [566] |
| Punting | [566] |
| "List" Shoes | [567] |
| "The Abattoir" | [568] |
| Putney Bridge | [568] |
| "Mr. Thompson is Tired" | [568] |
| The Original "Paul Pry" | [569] |
| Hook and Tom Hill | [570] |
| Hook's Politeness | [570] |
| A Biscuit and a Glass of Sherry | [571] |
| Much Alike | [572] |
| Private Medical Practice | [572] |
| Hook's Street Fun | [572] |
| A Misnomer | [572] |
| "Contingencies" | [573] |
| "The Widow's Mite" | [573] |
| Hook's Extempore Verses | [573] |
| Hook Extemporises a Melodrama | [575] |
| "Ass-ass-ination" | [578] |
| "Weather or No" | [578] |
| Diamond Cut Diamond | [579] |
| Tom Moore—Losing a Hat | [579] |
| "Good Night" | [579] |