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never a deserter, and without whom life would lose one of its fondest companionships.

CONTENTS
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON: The Lost Ornament 191
ANONYMOUS: The Gentle Reader 14 King David and the Gardener 198 Sabbath Bells 275 From the Greek Anthology 313 Letter from an Indian Gentleman to an English Friend 324 A Babu Letter 327 Mary Powell 341 A Tur'ble Chap 374 After Mr. Masefield 384 Hits and Misses 443 The Broken Window 443
BAGEHOT, WALTER: Letters 212
BALMANNO, MRS.: Charles and his Sister 193
BETHAM, M.M.: Miss Pate 190
BOSWELL: Dr. Johnson at Court 346
BROOKFIELD, W.H.: Mr. Brookfield in his Youth 376
BROWN, T.E.: Letters of T.E. Brown 85
BUTLER, SAMUEL: Clergyman and Chickens 15 Melchisedec 15 Eating and Proselytising 15 Sea-sickness 17 Assimilation and Persecution 17 Night-shirts and Babies 17 Does Mamma Know? 18 Croesus and his Kitchen-maid 19 Adam and Eve 24 Fire 24 The Electric Light in its Infancy 25 New-laid Eggs 25 Snapshotting a Bishop 26
BYRON: Apples 359
CALVERLEY, CHARLES: Visions 99 The Schoolmaster Abroad with his Son 174 Motherhood 257 "Forever" 337
CARLYLE: Richter 1
CARROLL, LEWIS: The Author of "Alice" 378
CHESTERTON, G.K.: The Wisdom of G.K.C. 140
COBBETT, WILLIAM: His Marriage 230 Life at Botley 233 His Children 237
DAUDET, ALPHONSE:
Tartarin de Tarascon 176
DICKENS, CHARLES: Shy Neighbourhoods 70 The Calais Night-boat 200 Mr. Testator 329
DOBSON, AUSTIN: The Secrets of the Heart 34 To "Lydia Languish" 137 The Cap that Fits 240 A Garden Idyll 286 Love in Winter 353 From the Ballad à-la-Mode 417
FITZGERALD, EDWARD: Letters of Fitz 127
GASKELL, MRS.: Cranford 291
GRONOW, CAPTAIN: Sir John Waters 47 Lord Westmoreland 51 Colonel Kelly and his Blacking 52 John Kemble 53 Rogers and Luttrell 54 The Pig-faced Lady 57 Hoby, the Bootmaker, of St. James's Street 58 Harrington House and Lord Petersham 60 Lord Alvanley 61 Sally Lunn 66 "Monk" Lewis 67
HAYDON, B.R.: Haydon's Immortal Night 181
H.B.: Miss Stipp of Plover's Court 385 Two Old Gentlemen 424
HAZLITT: Persons one would wish to have seen 180 Hobson's Choice 279 Wit and Laughter 351
HOLE, DEAN: "The Vulgar Tongue" 146 The Happy Dean 249
HOOD: The Carelesse Nurse Mayd 69 "Please to Ring the Belle" 248 Sally Simpkin's Lament; or John Jones's Kit-cat-astrophe 307 "Love, with a Witness!" 328 Ode to Peace 404
INGOLDSBY: Hints for an Historical Play; to be called William Rufus; or, the Red Rover 122 The Tragedy 214 New-made Honour 312
J.B.: Elia's Tail 192
JOHNSON, SAMUEL: Music 402 Neatness in Excess 402 A Young Lady's "Needs" 403 "Irene" 403
JONSON, BEN: The Woodcraft of Jonson 253
KEATS: To his Brother 186
LAMB, CHARLES: "Sixpenny Jokes" 185 Lamb's Task 186 In a Coach 197
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE: Landorisms 350
LEIGH, HENRY S.: Where--and oh! Where? 33 The Answer of Lady Clara Vere de Vere 252
LEWES, G.H.: Goethe's Mother 28
MACAULAY, LORD: "Boswell and Johnson" 102 Macaulay's Wit 290
MERIVALE, CHARLES: From the Greek Anthology 313
MONTAIGNE: Odours and Moustaches 415
PERCY ANECDOTES: The Great Condé 2 A Classical Ass 3 Memory 4 "Come in Here" 4 A Pope Innocent 5 A Good Paraphrase 5 Irish Priest 6 A Digression 7 Fortune-teller 7 Gasconades 8 Tribute to Beauty 8 Begging Quarter 9 Gascon Reproved 9 Absent Man 11 Pride 12 Witty Coward 12 Valuing Beauty 12 Pro Aris et Focis 14
PRIOR, MATTHEW: Epigrams 345
RELIGIO MEDICI: The Happiness of Sir Thomas Browne 244
RICHTER: Theisse 1 Broken Studies 1
ROBINSON, CRABB: Your Hat, Sir 191
SAINTE-BEUVE: The Charming Frenchman: Bossuet, Rousseau, Joubert, Mme D'Houdetot, Mme de Rémusat, Diderot, La Bruyère 269
SELDEN, JOHN: Table-talk of John Selden 309
SMITH, ALEXANDER: Dreamthorp 418
SMITH, SYDNEY: A Little Moral Advice 360 Mrs. Partington 363
STEPHEN, J.K.: In a Visitor's Book 126 A Sonnet 345
STERNE: The Supper 118 The Grace 120 Uncle Toby and the Fly 277
STOW: Old London Sports 314
THACKERAY: Letters from Thackeray 406
THOMSON, MISS E.G.: Lewis Carroll 380
THOREAU: Open Air 339
TWAIN, MARK: British Festivities 38 Mark's Baby 139 Enigma 243 The Jumping Frog 259 How Mark was Sold 310 A Newspaper Paragraph 335 Mental Photographs 354 How Mark edited an Agricultural Paper 365
WALPOLE, HORACE: Chatter of a Dilettante 221
WALTON, IZAAK: Angling Cheer 356
WELLESLEY: From the Greek Anthology (altered) 313
WIT ON OCCASION 444

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THEISSE [Sidenote: _Richter_]
In his seventy-second year his face is a thanksgiving for his former life, and a love-letter to all mankind.
RICHTER [Sidenote: _Carlyle_]
We have heard that he was a man universally loved, as well as honoured ... a friendly, true, and high-minded man; copious in speech, which was full of grave, genuine humour; contented with simple people and simple pleasures; and himself of the simplest habits and wishes.
BROKEN STUDIES [Sidenote: _Richter_]
I deny myself my evening meal in my eagerness to work; but the interruptions by my children I cannot deny myself.
THE GREAT CONDé [Sidenote: _Percy Anecdotes_]
The Great Condé passing through the city of Sens, which belonged to Burgundy, and of which he was the governor, took great pleasure in disconcerting the different companies who came to compliment him. The Abbé Boileau, brother of the poet, was commissioned to