Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta

by Unknown

Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset,

Eternæ vitæ Janua clausa foret.

INDEX.

• Alphabetical Whims, [25].
  • Alphabetical advertisement, [29].
  • Enigmas, [30].
  • Eve’s Legend, [28].
  • Jacobite toast, [30].
  • Letter H, [31].
  • Lipogrammata and pangrammata, [25].
  • Marriage of a lady to Mr. Gee, [32].
  • On sending a pair of gloves, [32].
  • The three initials, [30].
  • Univocalic verses, [32].
• Acrostics, [39].
  • Alliterative on Miss Stephens, [45].
  • Brevity of human life, [48].
  • Burke, [42].
  • Chronogrammatic pasquinade, [45].
  • Crabbe, [42].
  • Death of Lord Hatherton, [40].
  • Dryden, [42].
  • Emblematic fish, [46].
  • Hempe, [47].
  • Herbert, George, [41].
  • Huber, [42].
  • Irving, [43].
  • Longfellow, [43].
  • Macaulay, [44].
  • Macready, [43].
  • Masonic memento, [47].
  • Monastic verse, [45].
  • Napoleon family, [46].
  • Oliver’s impromptu on Arnold, [44].
  • Rachel, [46].
  • Reynolds, [42].
  • Scott, Walter, [42].
  • Southey, [44].
  • Valentine, a, [49].
  • Wordsworth, [43].
• Alliteration, [34].
  • Alphabetical, [34].
    • Address to the Aurora, [36].
    • Belgrade, siege of, [34].
    • Bunker Hill Monument, [34].
    • Prince Charles protected by Flora Macdonald, [35].
    • Title-page for Book of Extracts, [37].
  • Bevy of belles, [39].
  • Complimentary of chess, [37].
  • Couplet on Cardinal Wolsey, [35].
  • Felicitous flight of fancy, [38].
  • Hood’s Ode to Perry, [38].
  • Motives to gratitude, [39].
  • Pulci’s double alliterations, [36].
  • Stanza from Drury’s Dirge, [36].
• Anagrams, [49].
  • Epitaphial inscriptions, [56].
  • Telegram anagrammatized, [56].
• Bible, the, [103].
  • Accuracy of the Bible, [103].
  • Bibliomancy, [126].
  • Books belonging to, lost or unknown, [114].
  • Dissection of Old and New Testaments, [112].
  • Distinctions in the gospels, [113].
  • English Bible translations, [108].
  • Hexameters in the Bible, [115].
  • Misquotations from Scripture, [123].
  • Old and New Testament, names, [125].
  • Parallelism of the Hebrew poetry, [116].
  • Parallel passages between Shakspeare and the Bible, [119].
  • Scriptural bull, [124].
  • Scriptural sum, [126].
  • Selah, [114].
  • Similarity of sound, [118].
  • Testimony of learned men, [106].
  • True gentleman, the, [122].
  • Wit and humor in the Bible, [124].
• Blunders, [259].
  • Blunders of translators, [263].
  • Mistakes of misapprehension, [262].
  • Serial inconsistency, [262].
  • Slips of the press, [259].
  • Slips of the telegraph, [261].
• Bouts Rimés, [88].
  • Bogart’s Impromptu, [89].
  • Reversed rhyming ends, [90].
• Cento, the, [73].
  • Biblical cento, [76].
  • Cento from Pope, [76].
  • Life, [75].
  • Mosaic poetry, [73].
  • Return of Israel, the, [77].
• Chronograms, [57].
• Churchyard Literature, [564].
  • Advertising notices, [583].
  • Antithesis extraordinary, [606].
  • Bathos, [600].
  • Brevity, [607].
  • Cento, [601].
  • Earth to earth, [612].
  • Epitaph, historical, [578].
    • on a chemist, [609],
      • dog, Byron’s, [614].
      • printer, [607].
    • transcendental, [600].
  • Epitaphs, aboriginal, [602].
    • acrostical, [601].
    • African, [602].
    • biographical, [578].
    • curious and puzzling, [596].
    • eulogistic, apt, appropriate, [570].
    • Greek, [603].
    • Hibernian, [602].
    • laudatory, [608].
    • miscellaneous, [610].
    • moralizing and admonitory, [581].
    • on eminent men, [564].
    • on infants and children, [575].
    • self-written, [580].
    • unique and ludicrous, [583].
  • Mortuary puns, [591].
  • Parallels without a parallel, [600].
• Concatenation, or Chain Verse, [85].
  • Lasphrise’s novelties, [85].
  • Ringing Song, [87].
  • To Death, [86].
  • Truth, [86].
  • Trying skying, [87].
• Conformity of Sense to Sound, [554].
  • Articulate imitation of inarticulate sounds, [554].
  • Imitation of difficulty and ease, [555].
    • time and motion, [554].
• Curious Books, [720].
  • Book-amateurs, [722].
  • Most curious book in the world, [722].
  • Odd titles of old books, [720].
  • Silver book, [722].
• Customs, Singular, [477].
  • Abyssinian beefsteaks, [478].
  • Beautiful superstition, [477].
  • Foundations of Druidical temples, [478].
  • Hair in seals, [481].
  • High life in the 15th century, [480].
  • Lion-catching in South Africa, [479].
  • Making noses, [479].
  • Matrimonial advertisement, [481].
  • Memento mori, [477].
  • Ostiak regard for boars, [478].
  • Scorning the church, [481].
  • Strange fondness for beauty, [477].
• Ecclesiasticæ, [143].
  • Excessive civility, [143].
  • Bascom, eloquence of, [145].
  • Clerical blunders, [148].
  • Lord Bishop, the, [146].
  • Origin of texts, [147].
  • Preachers of Cromwell’s time, [147].
  • Protestant excommunication, [149].
  • Proving an alibi, [148].
  • Sermon on malt, [144].
  • Short sermons, [143].
  • Whitefield and the sailors, [149].
• Echo Verse, [281].
  • Acoustics, extraordinary facts in, [289].
  • Bonaparte and echo, [286].
  • Critic’s excuse, [287].
  • Echo answering, [287].
    • and the lover, [284].
    • on woman, [285].
  • Echoes, remarkable, [288].
  • Gospel echo, [283].
  • London before the Restoration, [282].
  • Pasquinade, [283].
  • Queen Elizabeth, [282].
  • Song by Addison, [283].
  • Synod of Dort, [287].
• Emblematic Poetry, [92].
  • Altar inscription, [96].
  • Cross, the, [94].
  • Crucifixion, curious piece of antiquity on, [95].
  • Cypher, ingenious, [96].
  • Essay to Miss Catharine Jay, [97].
  • Hindu triplet, [93].
  • Oxford joke, [96].
  • Rhomboidal dirge, [94]
  • Typographical, [96].
  • Wine-glass, the, [93].
• English Words and Forms of Expression, [182].
  • Compound epithets, [211].
  • Dictionary English, [182].
  • Disraelian English, [184].
  • Eccentric etymologies, [195].
  • Excise, [189].
  • Forlorn hope, [193].
  • Influence of names, [209].
  • I say, [186].
  • Its, [185].
  • No love lost, etc., [193].
  • Not Americanisms, [191].
  • Nouns of multitude, [184].
  • Odd changes of signification, [205].
  • Our vernacular in Chaucer’s time, [211].
  • Pathology, [186].
  • Pontiff, [190].
  • Pronunciation of ough, [186].
  • Quiz, [194].
  • Rough, [190].
  • Sources of the language, [183].
  • Tennyson’s English, [194].
  • That, [185].
  • That mine adversary, [195].
  • Ye for the, [185].
• Epigrams, [515].
  • Affinities, [524].
  • Apollo, in return for a sketch of, [525].
  • Author, to a living, [518].
  • Bed, to our, [517].
  • Blades of the shears, [523].
  • Bonnets, [521].
  • Butler’s monument, [518].
  • Campbell’s album verse, [521].
  • Clock, the, [525].
  • Commissary Goldie’s brains, [519].
  • Compliment, overdrawn, [518].
  • Crier who could not cry, [524].
  • Dentist, definition of, [522].
  • Determination, a funny, [526].
  • Double vision utilized, [527].
  • Dum vivimus, vivamus, [516].
  • D.D., on a certain, [521].
  • Eternity, [518].
  • Eve and the apple, [523].
  • Fell, [520].
  • Fiddler, on a bad, [521].
  • Fool and poet, [516].
  • Fools, abundance of, [527].
  • Friend, to Dr. Robert, [516].
  • Friend, to a capricious, [519].
  • Friend in distress, [522].
  • German tourist, suggested by a, [518].
  • Giving and taking, [519].
  • Goodenough, [523].
  • Hog vs. Bacon, [522].
  • Hot corn, [521].
  • Impersonal, [524].
  • Invisible, [524].
  • Lady who married a footman, [521].
  • Late repentance, [517].
  • Law, after going to, [526].
  • Lawyer, on an ill-read, [520].
  • Lover to his mistress, with a mirror, [519].
  • Marriage à la mode, [526].
  • Marriage of Webb & Gould, [526].
  • Martial’s, on Epigrams, [515].
  • Masculine, [525].
  • Medical advice, [522].
  • Mendax, [520].
  • Midas and modern statesmen, [515].
  • Molly Aston, to, [516].
  • One good turn deserves another, [520].
  • One ignorant and arrogant, on, [516].
  • Pale lady with red-nosed husband, [517].
  • Parson and butcher, [525].
  • Portmanteau, clergyman’s, loss of, [518].
  • Queen Bess on Drake’s ship, [524].
  • Queen, the frugal, [519].
  • Quid pro quo, [527].
  • Reception, a warm, [522].
  • Reflection, a, [523].
  • Rogers on Ward’s speeches, [526].
  • Same jawbone, [526].
  • Selvaggi’s distich to Milton, [517].
    • Amplification, by Dryden, [517].
  • Simplicity, prudent, [522].
  • Sleep, inscription on a statue of, [516].
  • Snow, that melted on a lady’s breast, [517].
  • Songsters, bad, [520].
  • Terminer sans oyer, [527].
  • To ——, [519].
  • Wellington’s nose, [520].
  • What might have been, [523].
  • Widows, [525].
  • Woman,—contra, [527].
    • pro, [527].
  • Woman’s will, [520].
  • World, the, [527].
• Equivoque, [64].
  • Age of French actresses, [71].
  • Double-faced creed, [66].
  • Fatal double meaning, [68].
  • Handwriting on the wall, [71].
  • Houses of Stuart and Hanover, [68].
  • Ingenious subterfuge, [65].
  • Love-letter, [65].
  • Loyalty or Jacobinism, [69].
  • Neat evasion, [70].
  • New Regime, [68].
  • Patriotic toast, [70].
  • Revolutionary verses, [67].
  • Richelieu’s letter to the French ambassador, [64].
  • Triple platform, [61].
• Facetiæ, [482].
  • Association of ideas, [491].
  • Brevity, [484].
  • False friend, a, [488].
  • Gasconade and hoaxing, [489].
  • Jack Robinson, [492].
  • Jests of Hierocles, [482].
  • Mathews and the silver spoon, [489].
  • Old Nick, [488].
  • P. and Q., [491].
  • Relics, [490].
  • Royal quandary, [490].
  • Russian jester and his jokes, [492].
  • Same joke diversified, [486].
  • Syllogism, [488].
  • Titles for library-door, [482].
• Fabrications, [269].
  • Ballad literature, [274].
  • Description of the Saviour’s person, [269].
  • Franklin’s parable, [275].
  • Hoax on Walter Scott, [269].
  • Ireland’s forgeries, [276].
  • Literary sell, [271].
  • Moon hoax, [270].
  • Mrs. Hemans’s forgeries, [271].
  • Sheridan’s Greek, [273].
• Familiar Quotations from Unfamiliar Sources, [556].
• Fancies of Fact, the, [406].
  • Aerolites, [443].
  • Alligators swallowing stones, [418].
  • America’s discoverers, fate of, [445].
  • Amount of gold in the world, [423].
  • Antipathies, [471].
  • Army of women, [446].
  • Auditoriums of last century, [409].
  • Back action, [408].
  • Beer-casks, capacious, [425].
  • Bills for strange services, [407].
  • Black hole at Calcutta, [427].
  • Broken heart, a, [467].
  • Chick in the egg, [416].
  • Cloth-manufacture, celerity of, [421].
  • Coincidences, singular, [412].
  • Colors, diversity of, [442].
  • Composition in dreams, [455].
  • Cross, true form of the, [409].
  • Crown of England, [446].
  • Crude value vs. industrial value, [422].
  • Devonshire superstition, [475].
  • Diameter to circumference, ratio of, [431].
  • Difference between English poets, [426].
  • Diplomatic costume, [448].
  • Equestrian expeditions, remarkable, [419].
  • Facial expression, [466].
  • Fear, effects of, [465].
  • Feline clocks, [474].
  • Heaven, dimensions of, [435].
  • Horse, wonderful, [420].
  • Indian and his tamed snake, [417].
  • Innate appetite, [417].
  • Kaleidoscope, changes of, [441].
  • Law logic, [407].
  • Lock, wonderful, [421].
  • Longevity, instances of remarkable, [449].
  • Marriage vow, [455].
  • Mathematical prodigies, [432].
  • Means of recognition, [454].
  • Melrose by sunlight, [408].
  • Memory extraordinary, [433].
  • Minute mechanism, [430].
  • Need of Providence, [434].
  • Noah’s ark and the Great Eastern, [442].
  • Number nine, [441].
    • seven, [436].
    • three, [440].
  • Opium and East Indian hemp, [461].
  • Painters, blunders of, [429].
  • Perils of precocity, [427].
  • Presidents, facts about the, [445].
  • Pithy prayer, [408].
  • Quantity and value, [422],
  • Reciprocal conversion, [407].
  • Romans, immense wealth of the, [424].
  • Romantic highwayman, [476].
  • Salt as a luxury, [428].
  • Self-immolation, [434].
  • Sensation and intelligence after decapitation, [469].
  • Sheep, habits of, [418].
  • Silent compliment, [434].
  • Skull that had a tongue, [475].
  • Sleep, facts about, [456].
  • Solomon’s temple, cost of, [435].
  • Star in the East, [447].
  • Stone barometer, [428].
  • Strychnia, bitterness of, [428].
  • Sympathy, strange instance of, [473].
  • Taste, singular change of, [429].
  • Walking blindfolded, [473].
  • Wine at two millions a bottle, [425].
  • Wounds of Julius Cæsar, [406].
• Flashes of Repartee, [495].
• Hiberniana, [252].
• Historical Memoranda, [782].
  • American monarchy, [786].
  • Amy Robsart, [808].
  • Annie Laurie, [804].
  • Biter bit, [818].
  • Blücher, [794].
  • Contemporary criticism, [798].
  • Discovery of America, [803].
  • Empire (the) is peace, [794].
  • First blood of the Revolution, [782].
  • Flight of Eugenie, [789].
  • French tricolor, [788].
  • Great events from little causes, [800].
  • History and fiction, [797].
  • Jefferson on Marie Antoinette, [794].
  • Joan of Arc, [807].
  • Last night of the Girondists, [819].
  • Mary Magdalene, the traditional, [796].
  • Mother Goose, [797].
  • Mother of Charles, V., [795].
  • Napoleon III., [793].
  • Political gamut, [788].
  • Quaker malignants, [786].
  • Queen Elizabeth’s ring, [822].
  • Robin Adair, [805].
  • Signing Declaration of Independence, [802].
  • Star-spangled banner, [787].
  • Tea-party and tea-burning, [783].
  • Time of Le Grand Monarque, [815].
  • United States Navy, [784].
  • William Tell, [810].
• Historical Similitudes, [679].
  • Art stories, [689].
  • Ballads and legends, [690].
  • Battles, [697].
  • Bishop Hatto, [698].
  • Burial alive, [692].
  • Death prophecies, [696].
  • History repeating itself, [681].
  • Judgment of Solomon, [685].
  • Legend of Beth Gelert, [686].
  • Precedency, [685].
  • Refusal to separate from kindred, [679].
  • Ring stories, [695].
  • Two statesmen, the, [683].
• Humors of Versification, [230].
  • Bryant as a humorist, [235].
  • Curse of O’Kelly, [250].
  • Elegy on Buckland, [233].
  • Human ear, the, [238].
  • Lovers, the, [230].
  • Ologies, the, [244].
  • Receipt of a rare pipe, [236].
  • Reiterative vocal music, [248].
  • Reminiscence of Troy, [234].
  • Sir Tray, [240].
  • Song with variations, [231].
  • Stammering wife, [231].
  • Thoughts while rocking the cradle, [232].
  • Variation humbug, [246].
• I. H. S., [130].
  • Anticipatory use of the cross, [135].
  • Beautiful legend, [131].
  • Death-warrant of Jesus Christ, [134].
  • De nomine Jesu, [130].
  • Description of the Saviour’s person, [133].
  • Double hexameter, [135].
  • Flower of Jesse, the, [131].
  • Persian apologue, [132].
• Impromptus, [528].
• Inscriptions, [615].
  • Beer-jug, inscription on, [621].
  • Bells, inscriptions on, [623].
  • Books, fly-leaf inscriptions in, [627].
  • English inns in olden time, [622].
  • Æolian harp, inscription on, [633].
  • Francke’s discovery, [636].
  • Golden mottoes, [636].
  • House inscriptions, [634].
  • Memorials, [635].
  • Motto on a clock, [631].
  • Posies from wedding-rings, [636].
  • Spring, inscription over, [633].
  • Sun-dial inscriptions, [632].
  • Tavern-signs, [615].
  • Watch-paper inscription, [631].
  • Wedding ring, Lady Grey’s, [639].
  • Window-pane inscriptions, [622].
• Interrupted Sentences, [277].
• Life and Death, [826].
  • After, [850].
  • Beautiful thought, [848].
  • Bodies, preserved, [836].
  • Bone not described by modern anatomists, [832].
  • Charter, rhyming, [830].
  • Common heritage, the, [851].
  • Corpses, folly of embalming, [839].
  • Death’s final conquest, [851].
  • Definitions, rhyming, [830].
  • Destiny, [849].
  • Dying words of distinguished persons, [833].
  • Earth, [830].
  • Evening prayer, [848].
  • Fleur-de-lis, the, [843].
  • Futurity, [847].
  • Heart, the, [848].
  • Ill success in life, [847].
  • Imprecatory epitaph, [843].
  • Lawyers, nice questions for, [831].
  • Life, beautiful illustrations of 826.
  • Life’s parting, [849].
  • Living life over again, [829].
  • Mary, Queen of Scots, last prayer of, [835].
  • Moral code, Dr. Franklin’s, [828].
  • Plagues of Egypt, [843].
  • Questions for discussion, [836].
  • Remarkable trance, [835].
  • Round of life, the, [827].
  • Rules of living, [828].
  • Story of long ago, [844].
  • Sympathy, [850].
  • This is not our home, [846].
  • Time, employment of, [829].
  • Tripod, the, [843].
  • Whimsical will, [843].
• Literariana, [723].
  • Additional verses to Sweet Home, [746].
  • Anachronisms of Shakspeare, [742].
  • Books and studies, [755].
  • Comfort for book lovers, [753].
  • Conflicting testimony of eye-witnesses, [750].
  • Gray’s elegy, [729].
  • Hamlet’s age, [745].
  • Hamlet’s insanity, [746].
  • Heraldry, Indian, [741].
  • Letters and their endings, [754].
  • Letters of Junius, [723].
  • Old paper, an, [753].
  • Parting interview of Hector and Andromache, [734].
  • Pope’s versification, [737].
  • Punctuation, importance of, [738].
  • Shakspeare and typography, [744].
  • Shakspeare’s heroines, [744].
  • Shakspeare’s sonnets, [745].
  • Stereotyped falsehoods of history, [747].
  • Wit and humor, [751].
• Literati, [756].
  • Attainments of linguists, [756].
  • Culture and sacrifice, [761].
  • Dryden and his publisher, [762].
  • Literary oddities, [758].
  • Literary screw, [762].
• Lord’s Prayer, the, [136].
  • Acrostical paraphrase, [139].
  • Echoed, [141].
  • Gothic version, [136].
  • Illustrated, [138].
  • In an acrostic, [142].
  • Metrical versions, [137].
  • Spirit of the prayer, [136].
  • Thy and us, [136].
• Macaronic Verse, [78].
  • Am Rhein, [83].
  • Cat and rats, [82].
  • Contenti abeamus, [81].
  • Death of the sea serpent, [84].
  • Fly-leaf scribbling, [82].
  • Maginn’s alternations, [80].
  • Parting address to a friend, [83].
  • Polyglot inscription, [83].
  • Suitor with nine tongues, [80].
  • Treatise of wine, [78].
• Memoria Technica, [327].
  • Books of the old Testament, [327].
    • New Testament, [327].
  • Days in each month, [330].
  • Decalogue, the, [329].
  • English sovereigns, [328].
  • Metrical Grammar, [330].
  • Presidents of the United States, [328].
  • Shakspeare’s plays, [328].
• Metric Prose, [223].
  • Cowper’s letter to Newton, [223].
  • Disraeli’s Tale of Alvoy, [224].
  • Example in Irving’s New York, [224].
  • Involuntary versification in the scriptures, [228].
  • Johnson on involuntary metre, [229].
  • Kemble and Siddons, [229].
  • Lincoln’s second inaugural, [229].
  • Nelly’s funeral, [225].
  • Niagara, [227].
  • Night, [227].
  • Unintentional rhymes of prosers, [228].
• Misquotations, [266].
• Monosyllables, [98].
  • Power of short words, [102].
• Moslem Wisdom, [508].
  • Alexandrian Library, the, [510].
  • Mohammedan logic, [509].
  • Shrewd decision of Ali, [508].
  • Turkish expedients, [510].
  • Wisdom of Ali, [508].
• Multum in Parvo, [823].
• Name of God, the, [127].
  • God in Shakspeare, [128].
  • Jehovah, [128].
  • Orthography, [127].
  • Parsee, Jew, and Christian, [129].
• Nothing New under the Sun, [375].
  • Ærial navigation, [382].
  • Anæsthesia, [383].
  • Attraction of gravitation, [390].
  • Auscultation and Percussion, [392].
  • Boomerang, the, [389].
  • Circulation of the blood, [382].
  • Discovery of America, predictions of, [393].
  • Early invention of rifling, [390].
  • Magnetic telegraph, foreshadowings of, [375].
  • Steam-power, first discoveries of, [378].
  • Stereoscope, the, [393].
  • Table-moving and alphabet-rapping, [391].
• Origin of Things Familiar, [331].
  • All Fools’ day, [332].
  • American flag, [355].
  • Bottled ale, [343].
  • Blue stocking, [366].
  • Brother Jonathan, [356].
  • Bumper, [340].
  • Cards, [336].
  • Cock fighting, [364].
  • Dollar-mark, [357].
  • Drinking healths, [346].
  • Dun, [340].
  • Earliest newspapers, [372].
  • Feather in one’s cap, [346].
  • First doctors, [368].
    • epigram, [371].
    • forged bank-note, [367].
    • piano-forte, [367].
    • prayer in Congress, [370].
    • printing by steam, [373].
    • reporters, [371].
    • telegraphic message, [373].
    • thanksgiving proclamation, [368].
  • Flag of England, [365].
  • Foolscap paper, [366].
  • Friction matches, [365].
  • Humbug, [340].
  • India-rubber, [364].
  • Kicking the bucket, [340].
  • La Marseillaise, [350].
  • Mind your P’s and Q’s, [331].
  • News, [372].
  • Nine tailors make a man, [346].
  • Old Hundred, [349].
  • Order of the garter, [345].
  • Over the left, [339].
  • Pasquinades, [341].
  • Postpaid envelopes, [349].
  • Potato, the, [343].
  • Royal saying, [340].
  • Signature of the cross, [348].
  • Skedaddle, [366].
  • Stockings, [344].
  • Sub rosa, [338].
  • Tarring and feathering, [344].
  • Turkish crescent, [348].
  • Turncoat, [364].
  • Uncle Sam, [357].
  • Various inventions and customs, [358].
  • Viz., [347].
  • Word Book, [346].
  • Yankee Doodle, [353].
• O. S. and N. S., [325].
  • Gregorian calendar, [325].
  • Results of change in style, [326].
• Palindromes, [59].
• Parallel Passages, [640].
  • Historical similitudes, [679].
  • Shaksperean Resemblances, [677].
  • Plagiarism of Charles Reade, [677].
• Paronomasia, [155].
  • Ben, the sailor, [162].
  • Book-larceny, [164].
  • Classical puns and mottoes, [172].
  • Court-fool’s pun on Laud, [181].
  • Dr. Johnson’s pun, [160].
  • Epitaph on an old horse, [165].
  • Erskine’s toast, [160].
  • Holmes on Achilles, [162].
  • Grand scheme of emigration, [166].
  • Marionettes, [168].
  • Miss-nomers, the, [180].
  • Mottoes of English peerage, [174].
  • Old joke versified, [161].
  • Perilous practice of punning, [167].
  • Plaint of the old pauper, [163].
  • Printer’s epitaph, [161].
  • Pungent chapter, [157].
  • Russian double entendre, [171].
  • Sheridan’s compliment, [162].
  • Short road to wealth, [159].
  • Sonnet, [168].
  • Sticky, [162].
  • Swift’s Latin puns, [169].
  • Sydney Smith’s pun, [160].
  • Tom Moore, [161].
  • To my nose, [163].
  • Top and bottom, [161].
  • Unconscious puns, [171].
  • Vegetable girl, the, [164].
  • Whiskers vs. razor, [162].
  • Winter, [160].
  • Women, [162].
• Jeux de Mots, [175].
  • Anagrammatic, [175].
  • Iterative, [175].
    • Bees of the Bible, [179].
    • Catalectic monody, [177].
    • Crooked Coincidences, [181].
    • Fair letter, [176].
    • Franklin’s Re’s, [179].
    • November, [178].
    • On the death of Kildare, [177].
    • Schott and Willing, [177].
    • Swarm of Bees, [179].
    • Turn to the left, [177].
    • Write written right, [177].
  • Spiritual, [175].
• Persian Poetry, excerpta from, [511].
  • Beauty’s prerogative, [511].
  • Broken hearts, [511].
  • Caliph and Satan, [513].
  • Double plot, [512].
  • Earth an illusion, [511].
  • Folly for one’s self, [512].
  • Fortune and worth, [511].
  • From Mirtsa Schaffy, [512].
  • Generous man, to a, [511].
  • Heaven an echo of earth, [511].
  • Impossibility, the, [512].
  • Moral atmosphere, a, [511].
  • Proud humility, [512].
  • Sober drunkenness, [512].
  • Wine-drinker’s metaphors, [512].
  • World’s unappreciation, the, [513].
• Personal Sketches and Anecdotes, [763].
  • André Major, [767].
  • André and Arnold, [768].
  • Bonaparte, name in Greek, [764].
    • personal appearance of, [765].
    • Milton and Napoleon, [764].
    • opinion of suicide, [765].
  • Cromwell, Oliver, [776].
  • Elizabeth, Queen, [774].
  • Flamsteed, the astronomer, [769].
  • Franklin’s wife, [766].
  • Lafayette’s republicanism, [764].
  • Luther, [771].
  • Nelson’s sang-froid, [769].
  • Pope’s skull, [779].
  • Porson, [781].
  • Shakspeare’s orthodoxy, [776].
  • Talleyrandiana, [780].
  • Washington’s dignity, [763].
  • Wickliffe’s ashes, [779].
• Prototypes, [699].
  • Air cushions, [702].
  • Cat in the adage, [702].
  • Charge of Light Brigade, [700].
  • Cinderella’s slipper, [699].
  • Consequential damages, [705].
  • Cork-legs, [702].
  • Curtain lectures, [700].
  • Excommunication, [706].
  • Falls of Lanark, [706].
  • Faust legends, [701].
  • Franklin, Turgot’s epigraph on, [707].
  • Know-Nothings, the, [709].
  • Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, [708].
  • Napoleon I., [706].
  • Oldest proverb, [699].
  • Old ballads, [715].
  • Original Shylock, [705].
  • Pilgrim’s Progress, original of, [710].
  • Plagiarism, great literary, [715].
  • Pope’s bull against the comet, [703].
  • Proverb misascribed to Defoe 713.
  • Robinson Crusoe: who wrote it, [712].
  • Scandinavian skull-cups, [714].
  • Shakspeare said it first, [699].
  • Swapping horses, [703].
  • Trade-unions, [704].
  • Use of language, [714].
  • Wandering Jew, [716].
  • Wooden nutmegs, [703].
• Puritan Peculiarities, [150].
  • Baptismal names, [150].
  • Connecticut Blue Laws, extracts from, [153].
  • Punishments, [151].
  • Similes, [151].
  • Virginia penalties in old times, [152].
• Puzzles, [290].
  • Bonapartean cypher, [292].
  • Book of riddles, [299].
  • Canning’s riddle, [294].
  • Case for the lawyers, [293]
  • Chinese tea-song, [298].
  • Cowper’s riddle, [294].
  • Curiosities of cipher, [301].
  • Death and life, [298].
  • Galileo’s logograph, [297].
  • Newton’s riddle, [294].
  • Number of the beast, [297].
  • Persian riddles, [298].
  • Prize enigma, [294].
  • Prophetic distich, [296].
  • Quincy’s comparison, [295].
  • Rebus, the, [299].
    • Bacon motto, [299].
    • French, [291].
  • Singular intermarriages, [296].
  • What is it? 299.
  • Wilberforce’s puzzle, [301].
• Reason Why, [310].
  • Boston, [311].
  • Cardinal’s red hat, [312].
  • Cutting off with a shilling, [312].
  • Genealogy, [313].
  • Huguenots, [311].
  • Juggler’s mystery, [314].
  • Roast beef of England, [313].
  • Royal demise, [311].
  • Sensible quack, [313].
  • Weathercocks, [312].
  • Why Germans eat sauer-kraut, [310].
  • Why Pennsylvania settled, [311].
• Refractory Rhyming, [534].
• Sexes, the, [501].
  • Female society, [505].
  • Happy woman, character of, [502].
  • Letter to a Bride, [507].
  • My Mother, [506].
  • Parallel of the sexes, [505].
  • Praise of women, [504].
  • Wife,—mistress,—lady, [505].
• Sonnets, [551].
  • Ave Maria, [553].
  • Dyspepsia, [552].
  • Humility, [553].
  • In a fashionable church, [551].
  • Nose, about a, [552].
  • Proxy saint, the, [552].
  • Writing a sonnet, [551].
• Tall Writing, [212].
  • Anatomist to his dulcinea, [221].
  • Borde’s prologue, [215].
  • Burlesque of Dr. Johnson’s style, [217].
  • Chemical valentine, [220].
  • Clear as mud, [218].
  • Domicile erected by John, [212].
  • Foote’s farrago, [216].
  • From the Curiosities of Advertising, [213].
  • From the Curiosities of the Post-office, [214].
  • Indignant letter, [219].
  • Intramural æstivation, [220].
  • Mad poet, the, [216].
  • Newspaper eulogy, [218].
  • Ode to Spring, [221].
  • Pristine proverbs for precocious pupils, [222].
  • Spanish play-bill, [215].
  • Transcendentalism, definition of, [212].
• Triumphs of Ingenuity, [395].
  • Choosing a king, [402].
  • Discovery of the planet Neptune, [395].
  • Discovery of Vulcan, [396].
  • King John and the abbot, [403].
  • Lesson worth learning, [402].
  • Stratagem of Columbus, [399].
• Valentines, [544].
  • Burns, verses of, [546].
  • Cardiac effusion, [547].
  • Colored man’s valentine, [549].
  • Cryptographic correspondence, [544].
  • Digby to Archabella, [548].
  • Egyptian serenade, [549].
  • Lover to his sweetheart, [547].
  • Macaronic, [548].
  • Macaulay’s valentine, [545].
  • Moore, verses of, [549].
  • Strategic love-letter, [544].
  • Teutonic alliteration, [546].
  • Written in sympathetic ink, [544].
    • Petitions, [550].
    • Maids and widows, the, [550].
    • Maladroit appeal, [550].
• Weather-Wisdom, [317].
  • Davy on weather-omens, [317].
  • Sheridan’s rhyming calendar, [317].
  • Signs of the weather, [320].
  • Unlucky days, [324].

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[1]. The relative proportions of the letters, in the formation of words, have been pretty accurately determined, as follows:—

A	85
B	16
C	30
D	44
E	120
F	25
G	17
H	64
I	80
J	4
K	8
L	40
M	30
N	80
O	80
P	17
Q	5
R	62
S	80
T	90
U	34
V	12
W	20
X	4
Y	20
Z	2

[2]. Now known to have been written by Miss Catherine Fanshawe.

[3]. The Sandwich Island alphabet has twelve letters; the Burmese, nineteen; the Italian, twenty; the Bengalese, twenty-one; the Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, and Samaritan, twenty-two each; the French, twenty-three; the Greek, twenty-four; the Latin, twenty-five; the German, Dutch, and English, twenty-six each; the Spanish and Sclavonic, twenty-seven each; the Arabic, twenty-eight; the Persian and Coptic, thirty-two; the Georgian, thirty-five; the Armenian, thirty-eight; the Russian, forty-one; the Muscovite, forty-three; the Sanscrit and Japanese, fifty; the Ethiopic and Tartarian, two hundred and two each.