INDEX OF TITLES
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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
Quidnunckis, The John Gay 54
Religion of Hudibras, The Samuel Butler 31
Remedy Worse Than the Disease, The Matthew Prior 45
Remonstrance, The Sir John Suckling 28
Reporters George Crabbe 85
Revelry in India Bartholomew Dowling 210
Review, A Bayard Taylor 221
Rich and Poor; or, Saint and Sinner Thomas L. Peacock 117
Rich and the Poor Man, The (From the Russian of Kremnitzer) Sir John Bowring 132
Sailor’s Consolation, The William Pitt 152
Saintship versus Conscience Samuel Butler 29
Same Old Story Harry B. Smith 306
Sandys’ Ghost Alexander Pope 57
Satire on Edward Howard Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset 39
Satire on the Scots John Cleiveland 32
Sceptics, The Bliss Carman 308
Scholar and His Dog, The John Marston 25
Schoolmaster Abroad with His Son, The Charles Stuart Calverley 233
Sick Man and the Angel, The John Gay 55
Sky-Making Mortimer Collins 226
Sleep On W. S. Gilbert 249
Sly Lawyers George Crabbe 85
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 190
Song Richard Lovelace 34
Sonnet, A J. K. Stephen 284
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray 178
Soul’s Errand, The Sir Walter Raleigh 13
St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes Abraham á Sancta-Clara 39
Sympathy Reginald Heber 111
There Is No God Arthur Hugh Clough 199
They Said Edith M. Thomas 284
Thought, A J. K. Stephen 283
Three Black Crows John Byrom 63
Thursday Frederick Edward Weatherly 280
To Boswell John Wolcott (Peter Pindar) 76
To Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Richard Kendall Munkittrick 287
To R. K. J. K. Stephen 286
To the Terrestrial Globe W. S. Gilbert 240
To Woman Lord Byron 126
Too Late Fitz-Hugh Ludlow 261
Tool, The Richard Watson Gilder 273
True to Poll Frank C. Burnand 247
Twelve Articles Jonathan Swift 46
Two Characters Henry Taylor 151
Uncertain Man, The William Cowper 74
V-a-s-e, The James Jeffrey Roche 278
Verses on Seeing the Speaker Asleep in His Chair During One of the Debates of the First Reformed Parliament Winthrop M. Praed 154
Wanted—A Governess Anonymous 346
War Is Kind Stephen Crane 336
Wed H. C. Bunner 289
Wedded Bliss Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman 303
Well of St. Keyne, The Robert Southey 99
What Will We Do? Robert J. Burdette 272
What’s In a Name? Richard Kendall Munkittrick 288
Widow Malone, The Charles Lever 173
Will, The John Donne 18
Wish for Length of Life, The Juvenal 6
Woman Fitz-Greene Halleck 132
Woman’s Will John Godfrey Saxe 196
Would-be Literary Bore, A Horace 4