Jenkins, Mrs., quoted, 171
Jenner, lines on, 6
Jerdan, William, quoted, 135
Jerrold, Douglas, _mot_ by, 14
"John P. Robinson, he," 30
Johnson, Dr., quoted, 50
"Juliet was a fool," 53
"Jure mariti," 57
Juxtaposition, Clough on, 113
K.
Kean, B. Smith and, 9
"Keep all you have," 17
Kemble, Fanny, quoted, 1, _et seq._
_Kenelm Chillingly_, quoted, 39
Kenny, _mot_ by, 156
"Kill him where he is," 147
_King Arthur_, quoted, 17
Kingsley and Froude, 111
Knowles, Sheridan, anecdotes of, 9, _et seq._
L.
_Ladies in Parliament_, quoted, 13, _et seq._
Ladies' accomplishments, on, 132
_Lady of Lyons, the_, quoted, 130
Lafayette, Heine on, 227
Lake poets, the, 130
Lamb, Charles, _mots_ by, 22, _et seq._
Landor, Walter Savage, quoted, 64, _et seq._
Lang, Andrew, quoted, 20, _et seq._
La Rochefoucauld, quoted, 20, _et seq._
_Las Alforgas_, quoted, 160
Latest Decalogue, the, 218
_Latter-Day Lyrics_, quoted, 101
Laughter, Byron on, 96
"Lays of now-a-days," 67
Leigh, H. S., quoted, 44, _et seq._
Leland, C. G., quoted, 86, _et seq._
_Letters to Julia_, quoted, 39
Lettuce and conversation, 169
Life described, 203
Lindsay, Lady Charlotte, _mots_ by, 70, _et seq._
Lingendes, Jean de, quoted, 151
_Literary Gazette, the_, quoted, 97
"Literature suited to desolate islands", 178
"Little Billee," quoted, 217
"Little knowledge, a," 95
"Livy was Tacitus," 122
Locker, Frederick, quoted, 8, _et seq._
Lockhart, J. G., quoted, 141
London, Morris on, 4
_---- Lyrics_, quoted, 8, _et seq._
Longfellow, quoted, 117
"Look to settlements," 145
_Lothair_, quoted, 6, _et seq._
Lot's wife, Hicks on, 2
Love and marriage, 31, 99, 159, 168
---- and wisdom, 174
----, Chamfort on, 55
----, Corporal Bunting on, 152
----, first and second, 195
----, first, Bernal on, 112
_---- for Love_, quoted, 77
---- -letters, 158
"---- levels all," 239
---- -making, Balzac on, 4
----, manifestations of, 127
---- song, by H. Smith, 18
"Lovely woman, lump of folly," 184
"Love's but a dance," 27
Lowell, J. R., quoted, 30, _et seq._
Lucilius, quoted, 208
Luck, good and bad, 150
"Luke-warm," 117
Luttrell, Henry, _mots_ by, 23, _et seq._;
quoted, 39
Lying and good breeding, 77
_Lyra Urbanica_, quoted, 4, _et seq._
Lytton, Lord, quoted, 8, _et seq._
M.
"Macadamnable," 254
Macaulay, Lord, quoted, 2, _et seq._
MacCulloch, _mot_ by, 219
Mackay, Charles, quoted, 68
_Macmillan's Magazine_, quoted, 33, _et seq._
Macready, W. C., quoted, 75
Magnanimity, Hazlitt on, 15
"Maidens of the mart," 19
Mallock, W. H., quoted, 46, _et seq._
Man of business, the, 75
_---- of Taste, the_, quoted, 48
Man's end, 30
_Margaret Percival_, quoted, 15
Marie-Louise, 227
Marriage, Shirley Brooks on, 55;
Mrs. Steele on, 58;
Selden on, 71, 95;
Chamfort on, 79
Martial, in London, 169;
quoted, 221
Matrimony, Heine on, 171
Matter, the laws of, 46
_Maximes_, Chamfort's, quoted, 13, _et seq._
Men, George Eliot on, 249
Men's nature, Buxton on, 27
Mendelssohn, anecdote of, 133
Meredith, George, quoted, 31
Merit, how treated, 28
Merry Wives of Windsor, the, 186
_Middlemarch_, quoted, 21, _et seq._
Middleton, Lord, anecdote of, 172
_Mill on the Floss, the_, quoted, 17, _et seq._
Mind and Matter, Neaves on, 140
Minorities, the rights of, 208
_Mistura Curiosa_, quoted, 147, _et seq._
Mitford, Miss, quoted, 67, _et seq._
"Mixture as before, the," 244
_Modern Love_, quoted, 31
_Money_, quoted, 60
----, Clough on, 163
Monk Lewis, anecdote of, 54
Montrond, _mots_ by, 168, _et seq._
Moore, Thomas, quoted, 9, _et seq._
Morality, H. Smith on, 51
Mormons, on the, 197
Morris, Charles, quoted, 4, _et seq._
"Most music-hall," 243
Mothers-in-law, 146, 247
_Musa Burschicosa_, quoted, 45, _et seq._
"My Lord," 183
_My Summer in a Garden_, quoted, 47, _et seq._
N.
Narrow-souled people, 264
Neaves, Lord, quoted, 8, _et seq._
Neilson, Miss, on, 67
"Never read," 89
Newell, R. H., quoted, 26, _et seq._
Newgate Windows, on, 229
_New Paul and Virginia_, quoted, 46, _et seq._
_---- Republic, the_, quoted, 92, _et seq._
Newspapers, Lord Beaconsfield on, 152
Nice, on the word, 229
North, Lord, _mot_ by, 67
Northern lights, on, 58
_Notes of thought_, quoted, 27, _et seq._
"Nothing is, and nothing's not," 53
"---- new," 47
"---- particular on my mind," 40
Novel, A Nutshell, 119
----, a sensation, described, 93
November, Planché on, 203
Number One, Lytton on, 50
O.
O'Connell, Morgan John, _mot_ by, 70
_Old Bachelor, the_, quoted, 178
_Old Times and Distant Places_, quoted, 34
Oliphant, Lawrence, quoted. 35, _et seq._
_Once a Week_, quoted, 9, _et seq._
Onion, the, 47
"---- is strength," 105
Orange, the, 156
_Orpheus C. Kerr Papers_, quoted, 26, _et seq._
Original sin, 231
Outram, George, quoted, 179
Overbury, Sir Thomas, quoted, 104
_Owl, the_, quoted, 64
P.
Palladas, quoted, 59, _et seq._
_Pall Mall Gazette, the_, quoted, 53, _et seq._
Palmerston, Lord, _mot_ by, 85
_Paradise of Birds, the_, quoted, 153
"_Parcus_ deorum cultor," 73
Parr, Dr., Basil Montague on, 129
Pascal, quoted, 240
_Patchwork_, quoted, 45, _et seq._
_Patience_, quoted, 88, _et seq._
Patrons' promises, Lord Holland on, 51
_Paul Clifford_, quoted, 8
Peel, Sir Robert, _mot_ by, 111
_Pelham_, quoted, 18
Pennell, H. Cholmondeley, quoted, 16, _et seq._
_Pensées_, Pascal's, quoted, 240
Permissive Bill, the, 203
"Personal" and "real," 32
_Phantasmagoria_, quoted, 85, _et seq._
Phoebe, to, 187
Phryne, Donne on, 48
_Physiologie du Mariage_, quoted, 4, _et seq._
_Piccadilly_, quoted, 35, _et seq._
"Pickle your lordship!" 247
Picnic party, a, 15, 86
Pictures, seeing, 151
Piety and cooking, 112
_Pirates of Penzance, the_, quoted, 58
"Plain leg of mutton," 55
Planché, J. R., quoted, 9, _et seq._
Pleasing, the art of, 31
Pleasure of not going to church, the, 254
Pleasures of the people, the, 234
Plunket, _mots_ by, 32, _et seq._
_Poems and Music_, quoted, 49, _et seq._
_Poetical Farrago, the_, quoted, 154
Poets' meaning, Byron on, 21
Poisoners, social, 110
"Policeman's lot, the," 209
Pommery Gréno, 193
Poole, _mot_ by, 161
Poor relations, George Eliot on, 43
Pope, Alexander, quoted, 42, _et seq._
Popular man, a, 122
Positivists, the, Collins on, 108, 138
Poverty, on, 85;
the ancients on, 8
Practical man, a, 49
"Practising all night," 35
Praed, W. M., quoted, 128
Praise, La Rochefoucauld on, 20
Preaching, Baron Alderson on, 174
Preoccupied man, a, 129
Presbyterian singing, 215
Pride of talent, 73
"Priest's orders," 61
Prigs, 120
Prima donna, the, and stout, 5
Primitive man, Lang on, 20
---- tongue, the, 49
Princess-robe, the, 84
Privileged person, a, 250
"Pro conibus calidis," 68
Procter, Bryan Waller, quoted, 35
Property in England, 165
Prophecy, a mistake, 239
Prospectus, 41
_Proverbs in Porcelain_, quoted, 27, _et seq._
Public dinners, Helps on, 44
Public-house, on a, 90
_Puck on Pegasus_, quoted, 16, _et seq._
_Punch_, quoted, 228, _et seq._
Punsters, Lamb on, 246
Pygmalion, on, 5
Q.
_Question d'Argent, la_, quoted, 87
R.
Radical, on a certain, 215
---- reformer, on a, 23
Rank and trade, on, 5
Recognition, the, 183
_Recollections_, Berkeley's, quoted, 142
----, Gronow's, quoted, 10, _et seq._
----, Mackay's, quoted, 68, _et seq._
----, Planché's, quoted, 9, _et seq._
_Record of a Girlhood_, quoted, 1, _et seq._
Reece, Robert, quoted, 57, _et seq._
_Réflexions_, Deshoulières', quoted, 37
----, La Rochefoucauld's, 20, _et seq._
----, Vauvenargues', quoted, 65, _et seq._
Reliable, on the word, 170
Religion, Selden on, 176
---- of humanity, the, 242
_Reminiscences_, Boyd's, quoted, 56, _et seq._
----, Teignmouth's, 36, _et seq._
Repentance, La Rochefoucauld on, 59;
Hazlitt on, 60
Retz, Cardinal de, quoted, 96
Reynolds, Hamilton, _mot_ by, 133
_Richelieu_, quoted, 76
"Rise up, cold reverend," 83
Robinson, Crabb, quoted, 24, _et seq._
Rogers, Samuel, quoted, 1, _et seq._;
_mots_ by, 21, _et seq._
Romances, Byron on, 177
_Romola_, quoted, 6, _et seq._
"Rose kissed me to-day," 48
Rose, Sir George, _mots_ by, 33, _et seq._
Rossini, anecdotes of, 76, _et seq._
Routh, Dr., _mot_ by, 86
"Rum and true religion," 159
S.
"Saddest when I sing," 16
Safety in numbers, 98
Saints and sinners, 81
Salad, Mortimer Collins on, 236
Satan a blunderer, 225
Saunders and Otley, 94
Savile Clarke, H., quoted, 125, _et seq._
Sawyer, William, quoted, 65, _et seq._
Saxe, John Godfrey, quoted, 10, _et seq._
Scandal, on, 196
Scotch economy, 40
Scotch tunes, 152
Scotch weather, on, 205
_Season, the_, quoted, 19, _et seq._
Sègur, Comte de, quoted, 87
Selden, John, quoted, 11, _et seq._
Self-satisfaction, 235
Sensible men, the religion of, 146
Sermons, stolen, 258, 259
"Sermons and soda-water," 150
Sewell, Miss, quoted, 15
"Shade over, a," 226
Shakespeare, quoted, 10
Shelburne, Lord, _mot_ by, 159
Shenstone, William, quoted, 44, _et seq._
Sheridan, R. B., quoted, 37;
_mot_ by, 65
"Shickspur," 37
_Shotover Papers, the_, quoted, 83, _et seq._
Sidey, J. A., quoted, 147
Sinclair, Archdeacon, quoted, 34
"Sing for the garish eye," 14
Singer, on a bad, 76
"Singing singers, the," 87
_Sketches and Characters_, quoted, 23, _et seq._
Smith, Horace, quoted, 18, _et seq._;
_mot_ by, 25
----, James, _mot_ by, 213;
quoted, 34, _et seq._
----, Robert, _mots_ by, 2, _et seq._
----, Sydney, _mots_ by, 1, _et seq._
Societies, Chesterfield on, 208
Society, a state of war, 231
Society, two classes in, 120
_Songs and Poems_, Planché's, quoted, 75, _et seq._
_Songs and Verses_, Neaves's, quoted, 8, _et seq._
_---- of many Seasons_, quoted, 5, _et seq._
_---- of Singularity_, quoted, 32, _et seq._
_Sorcerer, the_, quoted, 61
Southesk, Lord, quoted, 230
Speculation, George Eliot on, 52
---- and peculation, 210
"Splendid shilling, the," 260
Squinted, on one who, 207
Steele, Mrs. A. C., quoted, 5, _et seq._
Stephens, H. P., quoted, 127, _et seq._
Stuart Mill on Mind and Matter, 140
Stupid people, on, 179
Stupidity, Heine on, 159
Suckling, Sir John, quoted, 98
Sunday dismality, 123
Swift, Jonathan, quoted, 49, _et seq._
T.
_Table Talk_, Selden's, quoted, 11, _et seq._
Tailors, Overbury on, 104
"Take him for half and half," 68
Talleyrand, _mot_ by, 10
Teignmouth, Lord, quoted, 36, _et seq._
Temper, on losing, 138
"Tender ten," 53
Tennyson, Alfred, quoted, 148;
anecdote of, 132
----, after, 260
Thackeray, _mots_ by, 46, _et seq._;
quoted, 55
Theatrical nuisance, on a, 220
Theophilus, Rogers on, 1
Theory, a favourite, 248
Thurlow, Lord, _mot_ by, 72
"Tide of time, the," 107
Tierney, _mot_ by, 136
Time, on, 253
_Tin Trumpet, the_, quoted, 18, _et seq._
"Tommy Onslow", 46
Tom Thumb, 258
_Tom Thumb_, quoted, 56
"Too much--too much," 136
"To sniggle or to dibble," 175
"To urn or not to urn," 65
Town and country, 128
Townshend, Henry, quoted, 130
Tradition, George Eliot on, 76
Tragedies and comedies, 124
Trapp, Dr., epigram on, 154
Traveller, the, and the gorilla, 60
Travelling, on, 180
Trevelyan, G. O., quoted, 13, _et seq._
_Trial by Jury_, quoted, 43
"Trifles," on, 214
Turner, Godfrey, quoted, 20
Turnips, Mark Twain on, 19
Twain, Mark, quoted, 19, _et seq._
'Twas ever thus, 198
Tweeddale, Lady, story of, 2
_Twelfth Night_, quoted, 10
"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat," 97
Tyndall, Professor, Collins on, 192
U.
Umbrellas, on, 240
_University Magazine, the_, quoted, 38
"Upper G., my," 139
V.
Vanity, 143, 116
Vauvenargues, quoted, 65, _et seq._
_Veiled Prophet, the_, parody on, 222
Veracity, George Eliot on, 68
_Verses and Translations_, quoted, 5, _et seq._
"Vexation of spirit," 35
_Vignettes in Rhyme_, quoted, 11, _et seq._
Virtutem, in, 196
"Voice of the lobster," 42
Voltaire, quoted, 34;
Charles Lamb on, 220
W.
Walpole, Horace, quoted, 2, _et seq._
Walrus and the Carpenter, the, 158
Ward, Artemus, quoted, 7, _et seq._
Warner, Charles Dudley, quoted, 47, _et seq._
Warrender, Sir George, story of, 239
Washington, George, Mark Twain on, 185
Water, Lord Neaves on, 181
Weather, the clerk of the, 249
Webbe, Egerton, quoted, 170
"Wedlock is a sober thing," 262
"Weed, the," Neaves on, 70
Welsh language, the, 238
Werther and Charlotte, 166
Whiting and the snail, the, 7
Whately, anecdotes of, 3, _et seq._
_What will he do with it?_ quoted, 89, _et seq._
"When other lips," 190
"Whims and oddities," 3, _et seq._
Whitings or shoeblacks, 256
"Why the Dickens," 16
Wife, a, 108
"Wife who preaches, a," 135
Wife's dress, a, 227
"Wife's a widdy, his," 101
"Wilcox or Gibbs?" 21
_Wit and Humour_, Brooks's, quoted, 6, _et seq._
Wit of a family, the, 257
_Within an Ace_, quoted, 171
Wives, on, 167
Woman, a, with babbies, 196
---- before marriage, 245
Woman's choice, 143
---- self-love, 163
Women and a secret, 76
---- and books, 217, 130
---- and degrees, 104
---- and fact, 41
---- and flattery, 114, 132
---- and insincerity, 163
----, and men's happiness, 126
----, and men's praise, 126
---- and revenge, 54
---- and spite, 107
---- and their lovers, 13, 77
---- and wills, 92
----, and young and old, 120
---- as unionists, 151
----, Bartle Massey on, 175
----, Congreve on, 243
---- in a garden, 247
----, management of, 39
---- matched with men, 160
----, talkativeness of, 131
----, the two passions of, 125
Women's conversation, 49
---- rights, 86
---- virtue, 135, 205
Working by the hour, 139
Working-man, the, 161
_World, the_, quoted, 76
Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel, quoted, 138
Writing-master, on a left-handed, 173
"Wus, ever wus," 78
Y.
Yates, Edmund, quoted, 106, _et seq._
_Yesterdays with authors_, quoted, 14, _et seq._
Young, Brigham, 157
----, J. C., quoted, 4, _et seq._
---- ladies of to-day, 137
---- men of to-day, 93
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