Introductory material
Reading edition
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON: The Lost Ornament 191
ANONYMOUS: The Gentle Reader 14 King David and the Gardener 198 Sabbath Bells 275 From the Greek Anthology 313 Letter from an Indian Gentleman to an English Friend 324 A Babu Letter 327 Mary Powell 341 A Tur'ble Chap 374 After Mr. Masefield 384 Hits and Misses 443 The Broken Window 443
BAGEHOT, WALTER: Letters 212
BALMANNO, MRS.: Charles and his Sister 193
BETHAM, M.M.: Miss Pate 190
BOSWELL: Dr. Johnson at Court 346
BROOKFIELD, W.H.: Mr. Brookfield in his Youth 376
BROWN, T.E.: Letters of T.E. Brown 85
BUTLER, SAMUEL: Clergyman and Chickens 15 Melchisedec 15 Eating and Proselytising 15 Sea-sickness 17 Assimilation and Persecution 17 Night-shirts and Babies 17 Does Mamma Know? 18 Croesus and his Kitchen-maid 19 Adam and Eve 24 Fire 24 The Electric Light in its Infancy 25 New-laid Eggs 25 Snapshotting a Bishop 26
BYRON: Apples 359
CALVERLEY, CHARLES: Visions 99 The Schoolmaster Abroad with his Son 174 Motherhood 257 "Forever" 337
CARLYLE: Richter 1
CARROLL, LEWIS: The Author of "Alice" 378
CHESTERTON, G.K.: The Wisdom of G.K.C. 140
COBBETT, WILLIAM: His Marriage 230 Life at Botley 233 His Children 237
DAUDET, ALPHONSE:
Tartarin de Tarascon 176
DICKENS, CHARLES: Shy Neighbourhoods 70 The Calais Night-boat 200 Mr. Testator 329
DOBSON, AUSTIN: The Secrets of the Heart 34 To "Lydia Languish" 137 The Cap that Fits 240 A Garden Idyll 286 Love in Winter 353 From the Ballad à-la-Mode 417
FITZGERALD, EDWARD: Letters of Fitz 127
GASKELL, MRS.: Cranford 291
GRONOW, CAPTAIN: Sir John Waters 47 Lord Westmoreland 51 Colonel Kelly and his Blacking 52 John Kemble 53 Rogers and Luttrell 54 The Pig-faced Lady 57 Hoby, the Bootmaker, of St. James's Street 58 Harrington House and Lord Petersham 60 Lord Alvanley 61 Sally Lunn 66 "Monk" Lewis 67
HAYDON, B.R.: Haydon's Immortal Night 181
H.B.: Miss Stipp of Plover's Court 385 Two Old Gentlemen 424
HAZLITT: Persons one would wish to have seen 180 Hobson's Choice 279 Wit and Laughter 351
HOLE, DEAN: "The Vulgar Tongue" 146 The Happy Dean 249
HOOD: The Carelesse Nurse Mayd 69 "Please to Ring the Belle" 248 Sally Simpkin's Lament; or John Jones's Kit-cat-astrophe 307 "Love, with a Witness!" 328 Ode to Peace 404
INGOLDSBY: Hints for an Historical Play; to be called William Rufus; or, the Red Rover 122 The Tragedy 214 New-made Honour 312
J.B.: Elia's Tail 192
JOHNSON, SAMUEL: Music 402 Neatness in Excess 402 A Young Lady's "Needs" 403 "Irene" 403
JONSON, BEN: The Woodcraft of Jonson 253
KEATS: To his Brother 186
LAMB, CHARLES: "Sixpenny Jokes" 185 Lamb's Task 186 In a Coach 197
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE: Landorisms 350
LEIGH, HENRY S.: Where—and oh! Where? 33 The Answer of Lady Clara Vere de Vere 252
LEWES, G.H.: Goethe's Mother 28
MACAULAY, LORD: "Boswell and Johnson" 102 Macaulay's Wit 290
MERIVALE, CHARLES: From the Greek Anthology 313
MONTAIGNE: Odours and Moustaches 415
PERCY ANECDOTES: The Great Condé 2 A Classical Ass 3 Memory 4 "Come in Here" 4 A Pope Innocent 5 A Good Paraphrase 5 Irish Priest 6 A Digression 7 Fortune-teller 7 Gasconades 8 Tribute to Beauty 8 Begging Quarter 9 Gascon Reproved 9 Absent Man 11 Pride 12 Witty Coward 12 Valuing Beauty 12 Pro Aris et Focis 14
PRIOR, MATTHEW: Epigrams 345
RELIGIO MEDICI: The Happiness of Sir Thomas Browne 244
RICHTER: Theisse 1 Broken Studies 1
ROBINSON, CRABB: Your Hat, Sir 191
SAINTE-BEUVE: The Charming Frenchman: Bossuet, Rousseau, Joubert, Mme D'Houdetot, Mme de Rémusat, Diderot, La Bruyère 269
SELDEN, JOHN: Table-talk of John Selden 309
SMITH, ALEXANDER: Dreamthorp 418
SMITH, SYDNEY: A Little Moral Advice 360 Mrs. Partington 363
STEPHEN, J.K.: In a Visitor's Book 126 A Sonnet 345
STERNE: The Supper 118 The Grace 120 Uncle Toby and the Fly 277
STOW: Old London Sports 314
THACKERAY: Letters from Thackeray 406
THOMSON, MISS E.G.: Lewis Carroll 380
THOREAU: Open Air 339
TWAIN, MARK: British Festivities 38 Mark's Baby 139 Enigma 243 The Jumping Frog 259 How Mark was Sold 310 A Newspaper Paragraph 335 Mental Photographs 354 How Mark edited an Agricultural Paper 365
WALPOLE, HORACE: Chatter of a Dilettante 221
WALTON, IZAAK: Angling Cheer 356
WELLESLEY: From the Greek Anthology (altered) 313