QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES. (continued 4)

Turnips, Mark Twain on, 19 Twain, Mark, quoted, 19, et seq. 'Twas ever thus, 198 Tweeddale, Lady, story of, 2 Twelfth Night, quoted, 10 "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat," 97 Tyndall, Professor, Collins on, 192 U. Umbrellas, on, 240 University Magazine, the, quoted, 38 "Upper G., my," 139 V. Vanity, 143, 116 Vauvenargues, quoted, 65, et seq. Veiled Prophet, the, parody on, 222 Veracity, George Eliot on, 68 Verses and Translations, quoted, 5, et seq. "Vexation of spirit," 35 Vignettes in Rhyme, quoted, 11, et seq. Virtutem, in, 196 "Voice of the lobster," 42 Voltaire, quoted, 34; Charles Lamb on, 220 W. Walpole, Horace, quoted, 2, et seq. Walrus and the Carpenter, the, 158 Ward, Artemus, quoted, 7, et seq. Warner, Charles Dudley, quoted, 47, et seq. Warrender, Sir George, story of, 239 Washington, George, Mark Twain on, 185 Water, Lord Neaves on, 181 Weather, the clerk of the, 249 Webbe, Egerton, quoted, 170 "Wedlock is a sober thing," 262 "Weed, the," Neaves on, 70 Welsh language, the, 238 Werther and Charlotte, 166 Whiting and the snail, the, 7 Whately, anecdotes of, 3, et seq. What will he do with it? quoted, 89, et seq. "When other lips," 190 "Whims and oddities," 3, et seq. Whitings or shoeblacks, 256 "Why the Dickens," 16 Wife, a, 108 "Wife who preaches, a," 135 Wife's dress, a, 227 "Wife's a widdy, his," 101 "Wilcox or Gibbs?" 21 Wit and Humour, Brooks's, quoted, 6, et seq. Wit of a family, the, 257 Within an Ace, quoted, 171 Wives, on, 167 Woman, a, with babbies, 196 ---- before marriage, 245 Woman's choice, 143 ---- self-love, 163 Women and a secret, 76 ---- and books, 217, 130 ---- and degrees, 104 ---- and fact, 41 ---- and flattery, 114, 132 ---- and insincerity, 163 ----, and men's happiness, 126 ----, and men's praise, 126 ---- and revenge, 54 ---- and spite, 107 ---- and their lovers, 13, 77 ---- and wills, 92 ----, and young and old, 120 ---- as unionists, 151 ----, Bartle Massey on, 175 ----, Congreve on, 243 ---- in a garden, 247 ----, management of, 39 ---- matched with men, 160 ----, talkativeness of, 131 ----, the two passions of, 125 Women's conversation, 49 ---- rights, 86 ---- virtue, 135, 205 Working by the hour, 139 Working-man, the, 161 World, the, quoted, 76 Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel, quoted, 138 Writing-master, on a left-handed, 173 "Wus, ever wus," 78 Y. Yates, Edmund, quoted, 106, et seq. Yesterdays with authors, quoted, 14, et seq. Young, Brigham, 157 ----, J. C., quoted, 4, et seq. ---- ladies of to-day, 137 ---- men of to-day, 93

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