Essays

by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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CONTENTS
[MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.]
[INTRODUCTION.]
[PREFACE.]
[RHYME AND REASON.]
[ON THE PRACTICAL BATHOS.]
[NICKNAMES.]
[YES AND NO.]
[THOUGHTS ON THE WORDS “TURN OUT.”]
[SOLITUDE IN A CROWD.]
[POLITENESS AND POLITESSE.]
[A WINDSOR BALL.]
[LOVERS’ VOWS.]
[ON THE PRACTICAL ASYNDETON.]
[ON HAIR-DRESSING.]
[ON A CERTAIN AGE.]
[NOT AT HOME.]
[MUSÆ O’CONNORIANÆ.]
[THE KNIGHT AND THE KNAVE.]
[MAD—QUITE MAD!]
[THE BOGLE OF ANNESLIE; OR, THE THREE-CORNERED HAT.]
[ON THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY AT ETON.]
[THE MISTAKE; OR, SIXES AND SEVENS.]
[SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.]
[MR. LOZELL’S ESSAY ON WEATHERCOCKS.]
[GOLIGHTLY’S ESSAY ON BLUES.]
[OLD BOOTS.]
[ON THE DIVINITIES OF THE ANCIENTS.]
[REMINISCENCES OF MY YOUTH.]
[ON TRUE FRIENDSHIP.]
[THE COUNTRY CURATE.]
[THE WEDDING:]
[PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF PEREGRINE COURTENAY.]
[ABDICATION OF THE KING OF CLUBS.]
[THE UNION CLUB.]
[MY FIRST FOLLY.]
[POINTS.]
[LEONORA.]
[DAMASIPPUS.]
[MY FIRST FLAME.]
[THE INCONVENIENCE OF HAVING AN ELDER BROTHER.]
[TOUJOURS PERDRIX.]
[THE BEST ΒΑΤ IN THE SCHOOL.]

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ESSAYS

BY
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY
SIR GEORGE YOUNG, Bart., Μ.A.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY
LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
GLASGOW AND NEW YORK
1887

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