CONTENTS PAGE A MOTHER INFORMS THE CONTROLLER OF THE LONDON "GUILD OF PLAY" OF THE GOOD IT HAS DONE TO SARAH 2223 CHARLES DICKENS NARRATES A DREAM THACKERAY DESCRIBES HIS PARISIAN ADVENTURES MISS AUSTEN TELLS ALL THE NEWS, IN THREE LETTERS DAME DOROTHY BROWNE (SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S LADY) JANE WELSH CARLYLE TELLS ALL THE NEWS, IN SEVEN JOHN KEATS DESCRIBES WINCHESTER JOHN KEATS AND CHARLES BROWN DISCOVER SCOTLAND CHARLES LAMB INVENTS FOR MANNING THE DEAN JESTS WITH MISS HOADLEY WILLIAM COWPER DROPS INTO VERSE CHARLES LAMB CRIES OUT AGAINST TARTARY THE DEAN GIVES MR. POPE NEWS OF Gulliver MISS EDGEWORTH V.SITS SIR WALTER IN EDINBURGH PAGE 252 254 255 255 258 CHARLES LAMB RETURNS THANKS FOR A LITTLE PIG FOR A BOOK AND ENLARGES ON DIGESTION THACKERAY DESCRIBES TO MRS. BROOKFIELD HIS ADVEN TURES IN A PARIS THEATRE CHARLES LAMB CONFESSES TO A NIGHT OF IT EPISTOLARY SENTENTIÆ XII. HUMORISTS AND ODDITIES THE LADIES' BATTLE, IN FOUR LETTERS CHARLES LAMB SOFTENS THE LOSS OF A BROTHER PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY A PARISH CLERK THINKS BETTER OF IT, AND WITHDRAWS 267 269 ROBERT ROBINSON DESCRIBES A DAY'S WORK HORACE WALPOLE IN THE VEIN OF ECCLESIASTES SENECA ENLARGES TO LUCILIUS ON OLD AGE CHARLES LAMB LAMENTS HIS EXILE. xiii 297 |