• PREFACE
• BLAKESMOOR IN H----HIRE
• POOR RELATIONS
• STAGE ILLUSION
• TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON
• ELLISTONIANA
• DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING
• THE OLD MARGATE HOY
• THE CONVALESCENT
• SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS
• CAPTAIN JACKSON
• THE SUPERANNUATED MAN
• THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING
• BARBARA S-----
• THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY IN A LETTER TO R.S., ESQ.
• AMICUS REDIVIVUS
• SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
• NEWSPAPERS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
• BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE PRODU
• REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE
• THE WEDDING
• THE CHILD-ANGEL, A Dream
• A DEATH-BED, In a letter to R. H. Esq. of B.
• OLD CHINA
• CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD
• POPULAR FALLACIES I.-THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWA
• POPULAR FALLACIES II. -- THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVE
• III. -- THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST
• IV. -- THAT SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING. -- THAT
• V. -- THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH
• VI. -- THAT ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST
• VII. -- OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALL
• VIII. -- THAT VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, BECAUS
• IX -- THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST
• X. -- THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES
• XI. -- THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE M
• XII. -- THAT HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HO
• XIII. -- THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG
• XIV. -- THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK
• XV.-THAT WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB
• XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE
• I.-THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWARD