DETAILED CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER I Misnomers
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER II The Squire and his Niece
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER III The Duke's Folly
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER IV The Forest—A Soliloquy on Hair
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER V. The Seven Sisters
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VI The Rustic Lover
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VII The Vicar and his Wife—Families of Love:— The Newspaper
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER VIII Pantopragmatics CHAPTER IX Saint Catharine
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER X The Thunderstorm
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XI Electrical Science—The Death of Philemon
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XII The Forest Dell—The Power of Love—The Lottery of Marriage
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIII Lord Curryfin—Siberian Dinners—Social Monotony
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XIV Music and Painting—Jack of Dover
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XV Expression in Music—The Dappled Palfrey—Love and Age—Competitive Examination
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVI Miss Niphet—The Theatre—The Lake—Divided Attraction —Infallible Safety
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVII Horse-Taming—Love in Dilemma—Injunctions—Sonorous Vases
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XVIII Lectures—The Power of Public Opinion—A New Order of Chivalry
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XIX A Symposium—Transatlantic Tendencies —After-Dinner Lectures—Education
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XX Algernon and Morgana—Opportunity and Repentance —The Forest in Winter
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXI Skating—Pas de deux on the Ice—Congeniality —Flints among Bones
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXII The Seven against Thebes—A Soliloquy on Christmas
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIII The two Quadrilles—Pope's Ombre—Poetical Truth to Nature—Cleopatra
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXIV Progress of Sympathy—Love's Injunctions—Orlando Innamorato
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXV Harry and Dorothy
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVI Doubts and Questions
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVII Love in Memory
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXVIII Aristophanes in London
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXIX The Bald Venus—Inez de Castro—The Unity of Love
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXX A Captive Knight—Richard and Alice
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXI A Twelfth-Night Ball—Pantopragmatic Cookery —Modern Vandalism—A Bowl of Punch
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXII Hopes and Fears—Compensations in Life—Athenian Comedy—Madeira and Music—Confidences
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIII The Conquest of Thebes
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXIV Christmas Tales—Classical Tales of Wonder—The Host's Ghost—A Tale of a Shadow—A Tale of a Bogle—The Legend of St. Laura
CHAPTER XXXV
Rejected Suitors—Conclusion
GRYLL GRANGE
Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind leading of the blind:— And like the world, men's jobbemoles Turn round upon their ears the poles, And what they're confidently told By no sense else can be controll'd.
In the following pages the New Forest is always mentioned as if it were still unenclosed. This is the only state in which the Author has been acquainted with it. Since its enclosure, he has never seen it, and purposes never to do so.
The mottoes are sometimes specially apposite to the chapters to which they are prefixed; but more frequently to the general scope, or, to borrow a musical term, the motivo of the operetta.