INDEX.

Agnew, Sir Andrew, 400 Allan, William, clerk in the Treasury Office at Mauritius, 20; suicide of, 28 Allendale, Alfred, pseudonym of Hook, 15, 29 Arcadian, the, started by Hook and Terry, 24; collapses after the second number, 25; quoted, 133 Ass-ass-ination, 135, 578 Baird, Sir David, Life of, 32 Banks, Sir Joseph, 16 Barham, Rev. R. H., his last interview with Hook, 36 Beckford, William, 386 Berners-street Hoax, the, 539 Blinkinsop, Vicesimus, pseudonym of Hook, 23, 209 Broughton, Lord, see Hobhouse Bubbles of 1825, 194 Bull, see John Bull Byron, Lord, at Harrow with Theodore Hook, 3, 5; his attacks on Hook in "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," 6, 10; his treatment of Leigh Hunt, 280; supposed conversations of, 285 Canterbury, Lord, 23 Clubs, 333, 516 Coates, Romeo, 541 "Contingencies," 573 Creevy, Mr., 170, 183 Croker, John Wilson, 23 Curwen, Mr., M.P., 160 Daly's Practical Jokes, 471 Dancing, Hook's contempt for, 556 Daylight Dinners, 515 Dido, 522 Dillon, Dr., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, his ridiculous book, 288, 304 Dilworth's Instructions, 347 Dowton the Actor, Hook and, 554 Entick's Dictionary, 317, 320 Errors of the Press, 409 Fanny's Thumb, 519 Farquhar, Sir R. J. (Governor of Mauritius), 18; connected by marriage with Hook's family, ib.; returns to England, 20 Foote, Samuel, 226 Fulham, Hook's residence at, 31; Buried at, 38 Gaffer Grey, 166 Gilbert Gurney, 33 Godwin, William, his Life of Chaucer, 215 "Good Night," 579 Goethe, his Preface to Prince Puckler-Muskau's Tour, 355 Hall, Major-General, appointed Deputy-Governor of Mauritius, 20 Haydon, R. B., the painter, 249 Hobhouse, John Cam, 133, 217 Holcroft, Thomas, imitated, 166 Holland, Lady, 24 Hone, William, his Parodies, 190 Hook, James (father of Theodore Hook), his musical compositions, 4; weak character of, 6 —— (Dr. James), Dean of Worcester, 4 Hook, Theodore, birth and parentage, 3, 4; sent to Harrow, 5; death of his mother, 6; commences writing vaudevilles for the stage, 7; ridicules the Methodists, 11; his first appearance as a novelist, 15; appointed Accountant-General and Treasurer at the Mauritius, 18; describes his mode of life there in a letter to Mathews, 19; arrested for irregularities in the Treasury accounts, 21; sent to England for trial, 21; visit to Napoleon at St. Helena, 22; arrives in England, and is liberated, ib.; establishes himself at Somers Town, ib.; opens his campaign against Queen Caroline, 23; starts a small magazine, 24; establishes the John Bull newspaper, 25; and publishes a series of brilliant songs and squibs in it, 26; arrested under an Exchequer writ, 27; transferred to the Rules of the King's Bench, 28; publishes the first series of Sayings and Doings, 29; takes a cottage at Putney, 30; removes to a fashionable quarter of the West-end, ib.; finally settles down at Fulham, 31; various successive works, 32; undertakes the editorship of the New Monthly Magazine, 33; errors of his career, 35; last interview with his friend Ingoldsby, 36; illness and death, 37; buried at Fulham, 38 Hunt, Leigh, on Methodism, 14; his connexion with Lord Byron, 280 Hunting the Hare, 147 Ingoldsby, see Barham, Rev. R. H. Jack Brag, 33 Jeffrey, Lord, 217, 280 John Bull newspaper, establishment of, 25; Hook's connexion with, 26 Kelly, Michael, his Reminiscences revised by Hook, 30 Knight, Richard Payne, 220, 258 Larpent, Mr., 11, 12 L'Estrange, Father, 378 "List" Shoes, 567 Liston, performs in Hook's farces, 8 Lockhart, John Gibson, on Hook's Tentamen, 23 Lowth, 182 Madden, Miss, the mother of Theodore Hook, 4 Mathews, Charles, performs in Hook's farces, 8 ——, Charles, jun., 9 Maurice, M. Charles, his Babillard, 8 Mauritius, Letter from, 555 Maxwell, 31 Melodrama, an extempore, 575 Melville, Lord, trial of, 560 Michael's Dinner, 138 Miller, Joe, quoted, 243 Minus, Mr., the poet, 16, 338 Moore, Thomas, 16, 67; quoted, 106; sketched under the title of Mr. Minus, 338 Morgan, Lady, 67; described, 368 Muggins's (Mrs.) Visit to the Queen, 140 Naldi, his Fanatico per la Musica, 10 Napoleon at St. Helena, 22 Night Air, a Receipt against, 566 O'Connell, Daniel, described, 377 Owenson, Miss, see Morgan, Lady Peel, Sir Robert, contemporary with Theodore Hook at Harrow, 5; his Anecdotes of Theodore Hook, 565 Pope, Alexander, saying of, 8 Prince Puckler-Muskau's Tour, 355 Punning, 316, 320 Punting, 566 Putney Bridge, 568 —— Hook's residence at, 30 Ramsbottom Papers, 26, 41-130 Ramsbottom, Mrs., her party, 41; Her Journal in England and France, 46; death of her husband, 69; visits Rome, ib.; objects to being dramatised, 72; visits Dieppe, 73; describes Hastings, 75; relates some anecdotes of her son-in-law, 78; on the House of Commons, 79; on the Canning Administration, 81; on smoking, 84; conundrums, 85; writes from Cheltenham, 87; from Hastings, 90; gives her opinion of the relative merits of Margate and Brighton, 96; contemplates the collection of her Letters into a volume, 102; writes from Gravesend, 105; her opinions on Popery, ib.; at the Royal Academy, 108; at the Chiswick Fête, 111; writes from Walmer about the collection of her Letters under the title of The Ramsbottom Papers, 117; in a "pick of trubbles," 118; her opinions on public events, 120; declares herself a convert to "Reform," 123; on the House of Lords, 128; a next door neighbour of, 393 Ray's English Proverbs, 237 Rogers, Samuel, 75, 78, 178, 389 Russell, Lord John, 164; the "widow's mite," 573 Sheridan, Tom, Adventure of, 499 Summary Proceedings of Winter, 563 Sussex, Duke of, 211 Swift's Directions to Servants, 333 Tentamen, 23, 207-246 Terry, Daniel, acts in a farce of Theodore Hook's, 14; joins Hook in The Arcadian, 24 Thirty-nine Articles, the, 562 Twining's Tea, 522 Vacation Reminiscences, 159 Venice Preserved, 513 Ward, Mr., his Allegorical Picture of Waterloo, 249 Warren's Blacking, 564 Wine-cellar and the Book-seller, the, 565 Wood, Matthew, satirised under the name of Whittington, 23, 210; mentioned sæpius in the Political Songs

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