CHAPTER V.

The School for Scandal

CHAPTER VI.

Further Purchase of Theatrical Property.—Monody to the Memory of
Garrick.—Essay on Metre.—The Critic.—Essay on Absentees.—Political
Connections.—"The Englishman."—Elected for Stafford

CHAPTER VII.

Unfinished Plays and Poems

CHAPTER VIII.

His First Speeches in Parliament.—Rockingham Administration.—
Coalition.—India Bill.—Re-election for Stafford

CHAPTER IX.

The Prince of Wales.—Financial Measures.—Mr. Pitt's East India Bill.—
Irish Commercial Propositions.—Plan of the Duke of Richmond.—Sinking
Fund.