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DISRAELI.FRANCIS DOUCE, ESQ.CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.PREFACE.LIBRARIES.THE BIBLIOMANIA.LITERARY JOURNALS.RECOVERY OF MANUSCRIPTS.SKETCHES OF CRITICISM.THE PERSECUTED LEARNED.POVERTY OF THE LEARNED.IMPRISONMENT OF THE LEARNED.AMUSEMENTS OF THE LEARNED.PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS.DESTRUCTION OF BOOKS.SOME NOTICES OF LOST WORKS.QUODLIBETS, OR SCHOLASTIC DISQUISITIONS.FAME CONTEMNED.THE SIX FOLLIES OF SCIENCE.IMITATORS.CICERO'S PUNS.PREFACES.EARLY PRINTING.ERRATA.PATRONS.POETS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND ARTISTS, MADE BY ACCIDENT.INEQUALITIES OF GENIUS.GEOGRAPHICAL STYLE.LEGENDS.THE PORT-ROYAL SOCIETY.THE PROGRESS OF OLD AGE IN NEW STUDIES.SPANISH POETRY.SAINT EVREMOND.MEN OF GENIUS DEFICIENT IN CONVERSATION.VIDA.THE SCUDERIES.DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT.PRIOR'S HANS CARVEL.THE STUDENT IN THE METROPOLIS.THE TALMUD.RABBINICAL STORIES.ON THE CUSTOM OF SALUTING AFTER SNEEZING.BONAVENTURE DE PERIERS.GROTIUS.NOBLEMEN TURNED CRITICS.LITERARY IMPOSTURES.CARDINAL RICHELIEU.ARISTOTLE AND PLATO.ABELARD AND ELOISA.PHYSIOGNOMY.CHARACTERS DESCRIBED BY MUSICAL NOTES.MILTON.ORIGIN OF NEWSPAPERS.TRIALS AND PROOFS OF GUILT IN SUPERSTITIOUS AGES.THE INQUISITION.SINGULARITIES OBSERVED BY VARIOUS NATIONS IN THEIR REPASTS.MONARCHS.OF THE TITLES OF ILLUSTRIOUS, HIGHNESS, AND EXCELLENCE.TITLES OF SOVEREIGNS.ROYAL DIVINITIES.DETHRONED MONARCHSFEUDAL CUSTOMS.GAMING.THE ARABIC CHRONICLE.METEMPSYCHOSIS.SPANISH ETIQUETTE.THE GOTHS AND HUNS.VICARS OF BRAY.DOUGLAS.CRITICAL HISTORY OF POVERTY.SOLOMON AND SHEBA.HELL.THE ABSENT MAN.PASQUIN AND MARFORIO.FEMALE BEAUTY AND ORNAMENTS.MODERN PLATONISM.ANECDOTES OF FASHION.A SENATE OF JESUITS.THE LOVER'S HEART.THE HISTORY OF GLOVES.RELICS OF SAINTS.PERPETUAL LAMPS OF THE ANCIENTS.NATURAL PRODUCTIONS RESEMBLING ARTIFICIAL COMPOSITIONS.THE POETICAL GARLAND OF JULIA.TRAGIC ACTORS.JOCULAR PREACHERS.MASTERLY IMITATORS.EDWARD THE FOURTH.ELIZABETH.THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.MEDICAL MUSIC.MINUTE WRITING.NUMERICAL FIGURES.ENGLISH ASTROLOGERS.ALCHYMY.TITLES OF BOOKS.LITERARY FOLLIES.LITERARY CONTROVERSY.LITERARY BLUNDERS.A LITERARY WIFE.DEDICATIONS.PHILOSOPHICAL DESCRIPTIVE POEMS.PAMPHLETS.LITTLE BOOKS.A CATHOLIC'S REFUTATION.THE GOOD ADVICE OF AN OLD LITERARY SINNER.MYSTERIES, MORALITIES, FARCES, AND SOTTIES.LOVE AND FOLLY, AN ANCIENT MORALITY.RELIGIOUS NOUVELLETTES."CRITICAL SAGACITY," AND "HAPPY CONJECTURE;" OR, BENTLEY'S MILTON.A JANSENIST DICTIONARY.MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS.THE TURKISH SPY.SPENSER, JONSON, AND SHAKSPEARE.BEN JONSON, FELTHAM, AND RANDOLPH.ARIOSTO AND TASSO.BAYLE.CERVANTES.MAGLIABECHI.ABRIDGERS.PROFESSORS OF PLAGIARISM AND OBSCURITY.LITERARY DUTCH.THE PRODUCTIONS OF THE MIND NOT SEIZABLE BY CREDITORS.CRITICS.ANECDOTES OF CENSURED AUTHORS.VIRGINITY.A GLANCE INTO THE FRENCH ACADEMY.POETICAL AND GRAMMATICAL DEATHS.SCARRON.PETER CORNEILLE.POETS.ROMANCES.THE ASTREA.POETS LAUREAT.ANGELO POLITIAN.ORIGINAL LETTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.ANNE BULLEN.JAMES THE FIRST.GENERAL MONK AND HIS WIFE.PHILIP AND MARY.BY← Front matterISAAC DISRAELI. →