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ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE
RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS _Robert Burns_ 86
Advanced Thinker, An _Brander Matthews_ 282
Æsthete, The _W. S. Gilbert_ 260
All-Saints _Edmund Yates_ 237
Anglicised Utopia _W. S. Gilbert_ 252
Annuity, The _George Outram_ 156
Ape and the Lady, The _W. S. Gilbert_ 250
Ass’s Legacy, The _Rutebœuf_ 7
Atlantic City _H. C. Bunner_ 290
BALLADE OF EXPANSION _Hilda Johnson_ 331
Ballade of Literary Fame _Andrew Lang_ 274
Ballade of Old-Time Ladies, A
(Translated by John Payne) _François Villon_ 11
Battle of Blenheim, The _Robert Southey_ 97
Beauties of Nature, The _Anthony C. Deane_ 317
Bird in the Hand, A _Frederick E. Weatherly_ 281
Boston Lullaby, A _James Jeffrey Roche_ 277
British Visitor, The _From the Trollopiad_ 343
Butterfly of Fashion, A _Oliver Herford_ 322
CACOËTHES SCRIBENDI _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 166
Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit, A _Sir David Lyndsay_ 12
Certain Cure, A _Anthony C. Deane_ 316
Character of Holland, The _Andrew Marvell_ 35
Chorus of Anglomaniacs (From “The
Buntling Ball”) _Edgar Fawcett_ 275
Chorus of Women _Aristophanes_ 3
Christmas Out of Town _James Smith_ 103
Cockle v. Cackle _Thomas Hood_ 140
Cologne _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 96
Conservative, A _Charlotte Perkins
(Stetson) Gilman_ 304
Constant Lover, The _Sir John Suckling_ 27
Contentment _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 171
Conundrum of the Workshops, The _Rudyard Kipling_ 326
Country House Party, A _Lord Byron_ 127
Country Squire, The _Tomas Yriarte_ 80
Critics _Elizabeth Barrett
Browning_ 164
Cui Bono? _Thomas Carlyle_ 135
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical
Public _Charles Mackay_ 192
DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS _William Makepeace
Thackeray_ 182
Description of Holland _Samuel Butler_ 30
Devil at Home, The _Thomas Kibble Hervey_ 149
Diamond Wedding, The _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 240
Distiches _John Hay_ 264
Dr. Delany’s Villa _Thomas Sheridan_ 52
Duke of Buckingham, The _John Dryden_ 37
EARTH _Oliver Herford_ 321
Eggs, The _Tomas Yriarte_ 83
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An _Oliver Goldsmith_ 72
Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole, An _Henry Fielding_ 65
Epitaph, An _George John Cayley_ 64
Epitaph, An _Matthew Prior_ 43
Eternal London _Thomas Moore_ 105
Etiquette _W. S. Gilbert_ 254
Evolution of a “Name,” The _Charles Battell Loomis_ 310
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar
Cayenne _Gelett Burgess_ 328
FAITHFUL PICTURE OF ORDINARY SOCIETY,
A _William Cowper_ 74
Fame _James Herbert Morse_ 269
Fame’s Penny Trumpet _Lewis Carroll_ 238
Familiar Letter to Several
Correspondents, A _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 167
Fate of Pious Dan, The _Samuel Walter Foss_ 298
Father-Land and Mother-Tongue _Samuel Lover_ 135
Father Molloy _Samuel Lover_ 136
Five Lives _Edward Rowland Sill_ 270
Font in the Forest, The _Herman Knickerbocker
Vielé_ 294
Fragment, A _Grace Greenwood_ 212
Friar of Orders Gray, The _John O’Keefe_ 79
Friday Afternoon at the Boston
Symphony Hall _Faulkner Armytage_ 332
Friend of Humanity and the
Knife-Grinder, The _George Canning_ 92
From “A Fable for Critics” _James Russell Lowell_ 201
From “As You Like It” _Shakespeare_ 22
From “English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers” _Lord Byron_ 125
From “King Henry IV.” _Shakespeare_ 20
From “Love’s Labour’s Lost” _Shakespeare_ 21
From “The Devil’s Drive” _Lord Byron_ 123
From “The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” _Alexander Pope_ 60
From “The Feast of the Poets” _James Henry Leigh Hunt_ 116
From “The House of a Hundred Lights” _Frederic Ridgely
Torrence_ 340
From “The Love of Fame” _Edward Young_ 50
Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The _Jonathan Swift_ 48
GAFFER GRAY (FROM “HUGH TREVOR”) _Thomas Holcroft_ 139
General Summary _Rudyard Kipling_ 324
Giles’ Hope _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 96
Give Me a Theme _Richard Watson Gilder_ 274
Great Critics, The _Charles Mackay_ 193
Greediness Punished _Friedrich Rückert_ 130
HE AND SHE _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 272
Hem and Haw _Bliss Carman_ 307
Hen, The _Matthew Claudius_ 77
Hiding the Skeleton _George Meredith_ 229
Hoch! der Kaiser _Rodney Blake_ 320
Holy Willie’s Prayer _Robert Burns_ 88
Horace Concocting an Ode _Thomas Dekker_ 23
How to Make a Man of Consequence _Mark Lemon_ 173
How To Make a Novel _Lord Charles Neaves_ 150
“Hurt that Honour Feels, The” _Owen Seaman_ 310
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE-BORN
ENGLISHMAN _Daniel Defoe_ 41
JOB _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 95
John Jenkins _Anthony C. Deane_ 313
KING OF YVETOT, THE (VERSION OF
W. M. THACKERAY) _Pierre Jean De Béranger_ 109
Kitty of Coleraine _Edward Lysaght_ 91
LATEST DECALOGUE, THE _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 200
Laureate, The _William E. Aytoun_ 194
Let Us All Be Unhappy Together _Charles Dibdin_ 78
Life in Laconics _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 263
Lines _Stephen Crane_ 337
Lines by an Old Fogy _Anonymous_ 348
Literary Lady, The _Richard Brinsley
Sheridan_ 84
Lost Leader, The _Robert Browning_ 186
Love-Letter, The _Austin Dobson_ 267
Lying _Thomas Moore_ 108
MALBROUCK _Translated by Father
Prout_ 161
Manly Heart, The _George Wither_ 26
Man’s Requirements, A _Elizabeth Barrett
Browning_ 163
Match, A _Punch_ 343
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The _Samuel Walter Foss_ 300
Midges _Robert Bulwer Lytton_ 230
Miser, The _Edward Fitzgerald_ 166
Modern Puffing System, The _Thomas Moore_ 106
Modest Wit, A _Selleck Osborn_ 112
Mourner à la Mode, The _John Godfrey Saxe_ 197
Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account of
the Coronation _Richard Harris Barham_ 119
Mr. Molony’s Account of the Ball
Given to the Nepaulese
Ambassador by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company _William Makepeace
Thackeray_ 179
My Lord Tomnoddy _Robert Barnabas Brough_ 227
NET OF LAW, THE _James Jeffrey Roche_ 277
Nora’s Vow _Sir Walter Scott_ 94
Nothing to Wear _William Allen Butler_ 213
OF A CERTAIN MAN _Sir John Harrington_ 16
Of Propriety _Charles Stuart
Calverley_ 235
On a Magazine Sonnet _Russell Hilliard Loines_ 321
On Don Surly _Ben Jonson_ 24
On Johnson _John Wolcott_ (_Peter
Pindar_) 75
On Lytton _Alfred Tennyson_ 177
On Shadwell _John Dryden_ 38
On Smollett _Charles Churchill_ 73
Origin of Sin, The _Samuel Walter Foss_ 294
Our Village _Thomas Hood_ 145
Ozymandias _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 134
PARADISE. A HINDOO LEGEND _George Birdseye_ 319
Pauper’s Drive, The _Thomas Noel_ 175
Peace: A Study _Charles Stuart
Calverley_ 236
Pelters of Pyramids _Richard Hengist Horne_ 155
Philosopher, A _Samuel Walter Foss_ 295
Philosopher’s Scales, The _Jane Taylor_ 114
Pious Editor’s Creed, The _James Russell Lowell_ 206
Poem to the Critic, The _Richard Watson Gilder_ 274
Poet and the Critics, The _Austin Dobson_ 265
Poet of Fashion, The _James Smith_ 101
Pope and the Net, The _Robert Browning_ 188
Positivists, The _Mortimer Collins_ 225
Precise Tailor, A _Sir John Harrington_ 16
Public Breakfast, The _Christopher Anstey_ 67