And pull them from the sky.

If they were not, I have no doubt

But some reforming ass

Would recommend to take them down

And light the world with gas.

Anonymous.

INDEX OF TITLES

PAGE
Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous Robert Burns[86]
Advanced Thinker, An Brander Matthews[282]
Æsthete, The W. S. Gilbert[260]
All-Saints Edmund Yates[237]
Anglicised Utopia W. S. Gilbert[252]
Annuity, The George Outram[156]
Ape and the Lady, The W. S. Gilbert[250]
Ass’s Legacy, The Rutebœuf[7]
Atlantic City H. C. Bunner[290]

Ballade of Expansion
Hilda Johnson		[331]
Ballade of Literary Fame Andrew Lang[274]
Ballade of Old-Time Ladies, A (Translated by John Payne) François Villon[11]
Battle of Blenheim, The Robert Southey[97]
Beauties of Nature, The Anthony C. Deane[317]
Bird in the Hand, A Frederick E. Weatherly[281]
Boston Lullaby, A James Jeffrey Roche[277]
British Visitor, The From the Trollopiad[343]
Butterfly of Fashion, A Oliver Herford[322]

Cacoëthes Scribendi
Oliver Wendell Holmes		[166]
Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit, A Sir David Lyndsay[12]
Certain Cure, A Anthony C. Deane[316]
Character of Holland, The Andrew Marvell[35]
Chorus of Anglomaniacs (From “The Buntling Ball”) Edgar Fawcett[275]
Chorus of Women Aristophanes[3]
Christmas Out of Town James Smith[103]
Cockle v. Cackle Thomas Hood[140]
Cologne Samuel T. Coleridge[96]
Conservative, A Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman[304]
Constant Lover, The Sir John Suckling[27]
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes[171]
Conundrum of the Workshops, The Rudyard Kipling[326]
Country House Party, A Lord Byron[127]
Country Squire, The Tomas Yriarte[80]
Critics Elizabeth Barrett Browning[164]
Cui Bono? Thomas Carlyle[135]
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public Charles Mackay[192]

Damages, Two Hundred Pounds
William Makepeace Thackeray		[182]
Description of Holland Samuel Butler[30]
Devil at Home, The Thomas Kibble Hervey[149]
Diamond Wedding, The Edmund Clarence Stedman[240]
Distiches John Hay[264]
Dr. Delany’s Villa Thomas Sheridan[52]
Duke of Buckingham, The John Dryden[37]

Earth
Oliver Herford		[321]
Eggs, The Tomas Yriarte[83]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An Oliver Goldsmith[72]
Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole, An Henry Fielding[65]
Epitaph, An George John Cayley[64]
Epitaph, An Matthew Prior[43]
Eternal London Thomas Moore[105]
Etiquette W. S. Gilbert[254]
Evolution of a “Name,” The Charles Battell Loomis[310]
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne Gelett Burgess[328]

Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A
William Cowper		[74]
Fame James Herbert Morse[269]
Fame’s Penny Trumpet Lewis Carroll[238]
Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, A Oliver Wendell Holmes[167]
Fate of Pious Dan, The Samuel Walter Foss[298]
Father-Land and Mother-Tongue Samuel Lover[135]
Father Molloy Samuel Lover[136]
Five Lives Edward Rowland Sill[270]
Font in the Forest, The Herman Knickerbocker Vielé[294]
Fragment, A Grace Greenwood[212]
Friar of Orders Gray, The John O’Keefe[79]
Friday Afternoon at the Boston Symphony Hall Faulkner Armytage[332]
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The George Canning[92]
From “A Fable for Critics” James Russell Lowell[201]
From “As You Like It” Shakespeare[22]
From “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” Lord Byron[125]
From “King Henry IV.” Shakespeare[20]
From “Love’s Labour’s Lost” Shakespeare[21]
From “The Devil’s Drive” Lord Byron[123]
From “The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Alexander Pope[60]
From “The Feast of the Poets” James Henry Leigh Hunt[116]
From “The House of a Hundred Lights” Frederic Ridgely Torrence[340]
From “The Love of Fame” Edward Young[50]
Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The Jonathan Swift[48]

Gaffer Gray (From “Hugh Trevor”)
Thomas Holcroft		[139]
General Summary Rudyard Kipling[324]
Giles’ Hope Samuel T. Coleridge[96]
Give Me a Theme Richard Watson Gilder[274]
Great Critics, The Charles Mackay[193]
Greediness Punished Friedrich Rückert[130]

He and She
Eugene Fitch Ware		[272]
Hem and Haw Bliss Carman[307]
Hen, The Matthew Claudius[77]
Hiding the Skeleton George Meredith[229]
Hoch! der Kaiser Rodney Blake[320]
Holy Willie’s Prayer Robert Burns[88]
Horace Concocting an Ode Thomas Dekker[23]
How to Make a Man of Consequence Mark Lemon[173]
How To Make a Novel Lord Charles Neaves[150]
“Hurt that Honour Feels, The” Owen Seaman[310]

Introduction to the True-Born Englishman
Daniel Defoe		[41]

Job
Samuel T. Coleridge		[95]
John Jenkins Anthony C. Deane[313]

King of Yvetot, The (Version of W. M. Thackeray)
Pierre Jean De Béranger		[109]
Kitty of Coleraine Edward Lysaght[91]

Latest Decalogue, The
Arthur Hugh Clough		[200]
Laureate, The William E. Aytoun[194]
Let Us All Be Unhappy Together Charles Dibdin[78]
Life in Laconics Mary Mapes Dodge[263]
Lines Stephen Crane[337]
Lines by an Old Fogy Anonymous[348]
Literary Lady, The Richard Brinsley Sheridan[84]
Lost Leader, The Robert Browning[186]
Love-Letter, The Austin Dobson[267]
Lying Thomas Moore[108]

Malbrouck
Translated by Father Prout		[161]
Manly Heart, The George Wither[26]
Man’s Requirements, A Elizabeth Barrett Browning[163]
Match, A Punch[343]
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The Samuel Walter Foss[300]
Midges Robert Bulwer Lytton[230]
Miser, The Edward Fitzgerald[166]
Modern Puffing System, The Thomas Moore[106]
Modest Wit, A Selleck Osborn[112]
Mourner à la Mode, The John Godfrey Saxe[197]
Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account of the Coronation Richard Harris Barham[119]
Mr. Molony’s Account of the Ball Given to the
Nepaulese Ambassador by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company		 William Makepeace Thackeray[179]
My Lord Tomnoddy Robert Barnabas Brough[227]

Net of Law, The
James Jeffrey Roche		[277]
Nora’s Vow Sir Walter Scott[94]
Nothing to Wear William Allen Butler[213]

Of a Certain Man
Sir John Harrington		[16]
Of Propriety Charles Stuart Calverley[235]
On a Magazine Sonnet Russell Hilliard Loines[321]
On Don Surly Ben Jonson[24]
On Johnson John Wolcott (Peter Pindar)[75]
On Lytton Alfred Tennyson[177]
On Shadwell John Dryden[38]
On Smollett Charles Churchill[73]
Origin of Sin, The Samuel Walter Foss[294]
Our Village Thomas Hood[145]
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley[134]

Paradise. A Hindoo Legend
George Birdseye		[319]
Pauper’s Drive, The Thomas Noel[175]
Peace: A Study Charles Stuart Calverley[236]
Pelters of Pyramids Richard Hengist Horne[155]
Philosopher, A Samuel Walter Foss[295]
Philosopher’s Scales, The Jane Taylor[114]
Pious Editor’s Creed, The James Russell Lowell[206]
Poem to the Critic, The Richard Watson Gilder[274]
Poet and the Critics, The Austin Dobson[265]
Poet of Fashion, The James Smith[101]
Pope and the Net, The Robert Browning[188]
Positivists, The Mortimer Collins[225]
Precise Tailor, A Sir John Harrington[16]
Public Breakfast, The Christopher Anstey[67]

Quidnunckis, The
John Gay		[54]

Religion of Hudibras, The
Samuel Butler		[31]
Remedy Worse Than the Disease, The Matthew Prior[45]
Remonstrance, The Sir John Suckling[28]
Reporters George Crabbe[85]
Revelry in India Bartholomew Dowling[210]
Review, A Bayard Taylor[221]
Rich and Poor; or, Saint and Sinner Thomas L. Peacock[117]
Rich and the Poor Man, The (From the
Russian of Kremnitzer)		 Sir John Bowring[132]

Sailor’s Consolation, The
William Pitt		[152]
Saintship versus Conscience Samuel Butler[29]
Same Old Story Harry B. Smith[306]
Sandys’ Ghost Alexander Pope[57]
Satire on Edward Howard Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset[39]
Satire on the Scots John Cleiveland[32]
Sceptics, The Bliss Carman[308]
Scholar and His Dog, The John Marston[25]
Schoolmaster Abroad with His Son, The Charles Stuart Calverley[233]
Sick Man and the Angel, The John Gay[55]
Sky-Making Mortimer Collins[226]
Sleep On W. S. Gilbert[249]
Sly Lawyers George Crabbe[85]
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning[190]
Song Richard Lovelace[34]
Sonnet, A J. K. Stephen[284]
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray[178]
Soul’s Errand, The Sir Walter Raleigh[13]
St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes Abraham á Sancta-Clara[39]
Sympathy Reginald Heber[111]

There Is No God
Arthur Hugh Clough		[199]
They Said Edith M. Thomas[284]
Thought, A J. K. Stephen[283]
Three Black Crows John Byrom[63]
Thursday Frederick Edward Weatherly[280]
To Boswell John Wolcott (Peter Pindar)[76]
To Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Richard Kendall Munkittrick[287]
To R. K. J. K. Stephen[286]
To the Terrestrial Globe W. S. Gilbert[240]
To Woman Lord Byron[126]
Too Late Fitz-Hugh Ludlow[261]
Tool, The Richard Watson Gilder[273]
True to Poll Frank C. Burnand[247]
Twelve Articles Jonathan Swift[46]
Two Characters Henry Taylor[151]

Uncertain Man, The
William Cowper		[74]

V-a-s-e, The
James Jeffrey Roche		[278]
Verses on Seeing the Speaker Asleep in His
Chair During One of the Debates of the
First Reformed Parliament		 Winthrop M. Praed[154]

Wanted—A Governess
Anonymous		[346]
War Is Kind Stephen Crane[336]
Wed H. C. Bunner[289]
Wedded Bliss Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman[303]
Well of St. Keyne, The Robert Southey[99]
What Will We Do? Robert J. Burdette[272]
What’s In a Name? Richard Kendall Munkittrick[288]
Widow Malone, The Charles Lever[173]
Will, The John Donne[18]
Wish for Length of Life, The Juvenal[6]
Woman Fitz-Greene Halleck[132]
Woman’s Will John Godfrey Saxe[196]
Would-be Literary Bore, A Horace[4]