EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. NIMMO.
EDINBURGH: MURRAY AND GIBB,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Ale, Bishop Still's Praise of 83
A Learned Young Lady 149
Alfieri's Hair 153
Authors, Hard Fate of 59
Authorship, Pains and Toils of 125
Bad's the Best--Canning's Criticism 50
"Beggar's Opera," Origin of the 140
Bell, Death of Sir Charles 46
Blue-Stocking Club, the 10
Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap, Relics of 115
Boileau's, A Carouse at 147
Bolingbroke at Battersea 112
Bolingbroke, his Creed 55
Booksellers in Little Britain 27
Boswell as the "Bear-leader" 118
Boswell's "Life of Johnson" 99
"Boz" (Dickens), Origin of the Word 99
Bottled Ale, Accidental Origin of 49
Bulwer's Pompeian Drawing-room 84
Bunyan's Copy of the "Book of Martyrs" 53
Bunyan's Escapes 57
Bunyan's Preaching 56
Burney, Miss, her "Evelina" 66
Butler and Buckingham 143
Byron, Lord, his Graceful Apology 39
Byron's "Corsair" 26
Byron and "My Grandmother's Review" 95
Byron's Personal Vanity 37
Canning, A Ludicrous Estimate of 50
Chalmers'(Dr.) Industry 103
Chalmers' Preaching in London 44
Chances for the Drama 68
Chatterton's Profit and Loss Reckoning 136
Classical Pun, A 47
"Clean Hands," Lord Brougham's 79
Clever Statesmen, Swift on 116
Cobbett's Boyhood 121
Coleridge in the Dragoons 120
Coleridge as a Unitarian Preacher 123
Coleridge's "Watchman" 32
Collins' Insanity 129
Collins' Poor Opinion of his Poems 13
Colton the Author of "Lacon" 52
Conscience, A Composition with 133
Copyrights, Value of some 65
Cowley at Chertsey 108
Cowper's "John Gilpin" 58
Cowper's Poems, First Publication of 21
Criticism, Sensitiveness to 142
Curran's Imagination 107
Dangerous Fools 84
Day and his Model Wife 109
Death-bed Revelations 49
Dennis, Conceited Alarms of 132
Devotion to Science 74
Disadvantageous Correction, Lord North's 75
Drollery must be Spontaneous 58
Dryden Drubbed 151
"Edinburgh Review," Origin of the 116
Evelyn's Diary Discovered at Wotton 7
"Felon Literature" 48
Fielding's "Tom Jones" 78
Fine Flourishes, Brougham's Rebuke of 39
Flattery, Moderate 80
Fontenelle's Insensibility 124
Foote's Wooden Leg 88
Fox and Gibbon 25
French-English Jeu-de-mot 81
Fuller's Memory 69
Gibbon's House at Lausanne 98
Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" 43
Haydn and the Ship Captain 138
Haydn's Diploma Piece at Oxford 139
Hearne's Love of Ale 22
Hervey, Lord, his wit 69
Hone's "Every-day Book" 56
Hoole, the Translator of Tasso 36
Hope's "Anastasius" 51
Ireland's Shakspearian Forgeries 33
Jerrold's Jokes, A String of 130
Jerrold's Rebuke to a Rude Intruder 155
Joe Miller at Court 128
Johnson and Hannah More 11
Johnson's Criticisms 97
Johnson's Latest Contemporaries 105
Johnson's Pretty Compliment to Mrs. Siddons 109
Johnson's Pride 26
Johnson's Residences and Resorts in London 77
Johnson's Wigs 76
Johnson and Lord Elibank 118
Johnson, Relics of, at Lichfield 119
"Junius," Rogers and 152
"Junius' Letters," Who Wrote? 89
Killing no Murder 141
Lamb, Cary's Epitaph on 67
Learning French, Brummell 102
Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle 19
Lewis's "Monk" 42
Literary Coffee-houses in last Century 93
Literary Dinners 17
Literary Localities in London 55
Literary Men, the Families of 9
Locke's Rebuke to the Card-Playing Lords 137
Lope de Vega's Popularity 29
Lope de Vega's Voluminous Writings 28
Lovelace, The Last Days of 134
Mackintosh, Sir James, and Dr. Parr 28
Mackintosh's Humour 28
Magazine, the First 117
Magazines, the Sale of 72
Magna Charta recovered 25
Mathematical Sailors 41
Mermaid Club, The 144
Milton, Relics of 113
Mitford, Miss, her Farewell to Three-Mile Cross 12
Moore's Anacreontic Invitation 70
Moore's Epigram on Abbott 130
Morris, Captain, his Songs 14
Negroes at Home 130
O'Connell's Opinion of the Authorship of "Junius" 92
Patronage of Authors 100
Patronage of Literature in France 75
Payment in Kind 135
Physiognomy of the French Revolutionists 45
Poets in a Puzzle 71
Poetry of the Sea, Campbell on the 47
Pope, A Hard Hit at 150
Popularity of the Pickwick Papers 18
Porson's Memory 146
Quid pro Quo, Turner's 51
Reconciling the Fathers 27
Regality of Genius 77
Repartee, A Smart 52
Rival Remembrance--Gilford and Hazlitt 88
Romilly and Brougham 45
Sale, the Translator of the Koran 133
Shenstone, An Odd Present to 156
Sheridans, The Two 141
Sheridan's Careful Study of his Wit 23
Silence no sure Sign of Wisdom 44
Smith, James, one of the Authors of the "Rejected Addresses" 60, 80
Smollett's Hard Fortunes 154
Smollett's History of England 24
Smollett's "Hugh Strap" 13
Snail Dinner, the 106
Southey's Wife 73
Stammering Witticism, Lamb's 49
Sterne's Sermons 85
Swift's Disappointed Life 18
Swift's Three Loves 31
Thomson's Indolence 148
Thomson's Recitation of his Poetry 42
"Times" Newspaper, Writing up the 114
"Tom Cringle's Log," Authorship of 68
Tom Hill 85
Trimmer, Mrs. 117
Tycho Brahe's Nose 87
Voltairean Relics at Ferney, Sale of 79
Waller, the Courtier-Poet 156
Walton, Izaak, Relics of 82
Washington Irving and Wilkie at the Alhambra 111
"Waverley," the Authorship of 51
Way to Win them, Walpole's 96
Wycherley's Wooing 146