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
WIT ON OCCASION 444
THE BED-BOOK OF HAPPINESS
THEISSE
[Sidenote: Richter]
In his seventy-second year his face is a thanksgiving for his former life, and a love-letter to all mankind.
RICHTER
[Sidenote: Carlyle]
We have heard that he was a man universally loved, as well as honoured … a friendly, true, and high-minded man; copious in speech, which was full of grave, genuine humour; contented with simple people and simple pleasures; and himself of the simplest habits and wishes.
BROKEN STUDIES
[Sidenote: Richter]
I deny myself my evening meal in my eagerness to work; but the interruptions by my children I cannot deny myself.
THE GREAT CONDÉ
[Sidenote: Percy Anecdotes]
The Great Condé passing through the city of Sens, which belonged to Burgundy, and of which he was the governor, took great pleasure in disconcerting the different companies who came to compliment him. The Abbé Boileau, brother of the poet, was commissioned to make a speech to the Prince at the head of the chapter. Condé wishing to disconcert the orator, advanced his head and large nose towards the Abbé, as if with the intention of hearing him more distinctly, but in reality to make him blunder if possible. The Abbé, who perceived his design, pretended to be greatly embarrassed, and thus began his speech: "My lord, your highness ought not to be surprised to see me tremble, when I appear before you at the head of a company of ecclesiastics; were I at the head of an army of thirty thousand men, I should tremble much more." The Prince
