1. A Printer's Prologue
Wm. Caxton, _Morte D'Arthur_ 1
2. Dame Prudence on Riches
Geoffrey Chaucer, _Tale of Melibeus_ 4
3. Of Painting the Face
T.T., _New Essays_, 1614 8
4. Hamlet's Advice to the Players
Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ 10
5. Of Adversity
Francis Bacon, _Essays_ 11
6. Of Travel
" " " 12
7. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
" " " 14
8. Of Ambition
" " " 15
9. Of Gardens
" " " 17
10. Of Studies
" " " 22
11. The Good Schoolmaster
Thomas Fuller, _Holy and Profane States_ 24
12. On Death
Jeremy Taylor, _Holy Living and Holy Dying_ 27
13. Of Winter
Thomas Dekker 30
14. How a Gallant should behave himself in a Play-house
Thomas Dekker, _Gull's Horn Book_ 31
15. Of Myself
Abraham Cowley, _Discourses_ 35
16. The Grand Elixir
Pope, _The Guardian_, No. 11 39
17. Jack Lizard
Steele, _The Guardian_, No. 24 43
18. A Meditation upon a Broomstick, According to the Style and
Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations
Swift, _Prose Writings_ 47
19. Pulpit Eloquence
Swift, _The Tatler_, No. 66 48
20. The Art of Political Lying
Swift, _The Examiner_, No. 15 51
21. A Rural Ride
Wm. Cobbett, _Rural Rides_ 56
22. The Man in Black (1)
Goldsmith, _Citizen of the World_, No. 25 58
23. " " " (2)
" " " " No. 26 61
24. Old Maids and Bachelors
" " " " No. 27 66
25. The Important Trifler
" " " " No. 53 69
26. The Trifler's Household
" " " " No. 54 72
27. Westminster Hall
" " " " No. 97 75
28. The Little Beau
" " " " No. 98 78
29. The Club
Steele, _The Spectator_ 80
30. The Meeting of the Club
Addison " " 85
31. Sir Roger de Coverley at Home (1)
" " " 88
32. " " " " (2)
" " " 91
33. " " " " (3)
Steele " " 94
34. " " " " (4)
Addison " " 97
35. Sir Roger at Church
" " " 100
36. Sir Roger on the Widow
Steele " " 103
37. Sir Roger in the Hunting Field
Addison " " 107
38. Sir Roger at the Assizes
" " " 110
39. Gipsies
" " " 114
40. Witches
" " " 117
41. Sir Roger at Westminster Abbey
" " " 120
42. Sir Roger at the Play
" " " 123
43. Sir Roger at Spring-Garden
" " " 126
44. Death of Sir Roger
" " " 129
45. A Stage Coach Journey
Steele " " 131
46. A Journey from Richmond
" " " 135
47. A Prize Fight
" " " 139
48. Good Temper
" " " 144
49. The Employments of a Housewife in the Country
Samuel Johnson, _The Rambler_, No. 51 147
50. The Stage Coach
" " _The Adventurer_, No. 84 152
51. The Scholar's Complaint of His Own Bashfulness
Johnson, _The Rambler_, No. 157 156
52. The Misery of a Modish Lady in Solitude
Johnson, _The Rambler_, No. 42 160
53. The History of an Adventurer in Lotteries
Johnson, _The Rambler_, No. 181 164
54. Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
Lamb, _Essays of Elia_ 168
55. All Fools' Day
" " 180
56. Witches, and Other Night-Fears
" " 184
57. My First Play
" " 190
58. Dream-Children; a Reverie
" " 194
59. The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
" " 198
60. A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
" " 205
61. Poor Relations
" " 211
62. The Child Angel
" " 218
63. Old China
" " 220
64. Popular Fallacies (I)
" " 226
65. " " (II)
" " 227
66. " " (III)
" " 228
67. Whitsun-Eve
Mary Russell Mitford, _Our Village_ 230
68. On Going a Journey
Hazlitt, _Essays_ 234
69. On Living to One's-Self
" " 244
70. Of Persons One would wish to have seen
" " 257
71. On a Sun-Dial
" " 271
72. Of the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
Hazlitt, _The New Monthly Magazine_ 280
73. A Vision
Coleridge, _A Lay Sermon_, 1817 292
74. Upon Epitaphs
Wordsworth 297
75. Jeems the Doorkeeper
John Brown, _Rab and His Friends_ 311
76. On Life
Shelley, _Essays_ 323
77. Walking Stewart
De Quincey, _Notes of an Opium Eater_ 327
78. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
De Quincey, _Collected Essays_ 340
79. The Daughter of Lebanon
" " " 345
80. Getting up on Cold Mornings
Leigh Hunt, _Essays_, _Indicator_, 1820 351
81. The Old Gentleman
" " " " 355
82. The Old Lady
" " " " 359
83. The Maid-Servant
" " " " 363
84. Characteristics
Carlyle, _Miscellanies_ 366
85. Tunbridge Toys
Thackeray, _Roundabout Papers_ 404
86. Night Walks
Dickens, _The Uncommercial Traveller_ 410
87. "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured"
R. L. Stevenson, _Memories and Portraits_ 419
88. July Grass
Richard Jefferies, _Field and Hedgerow_ 425
89. Worn-out Types
Augustine Birrell, _Obiter Dicta_ 428
90. Book-buying
" " " " 433
91. The Whole Duty of Woman
Edmund Gosse, _The Realm_, 1895 436
92. Steele's Letters
Austin Dobson, _Eighteenth Century Vignettes_ 441
93. A Defence of Nonsense
G. K. Chesterton, _The Defendant_ 446
94. The Colour of Life
Alice Meynell, _The Colour of Life_ 450
95. A Funeral
E. V. Lucas, _Character and Comedy_ 453
96. Fires
" " _Fireside and Sunshine_ 456
97. The Last Gleeman
W. B. Yeats, _The Celtic Twilight_ 462
98. A Brother of St. Francis
Grace Rhys, _The Vineyard_ 467
99. The Pilgrim's Way
Edward Thomas, _The South Country_ 469
100. On a Great Wind
H. Belloc, _First and Last_ 471