| PLATES. |
| The Princess Victoria in 1830. From the Picture by Richard Westall, R.A., at Windsor Castle | Frontispiece |
| Windsor Castle | Vignette |
| PAGE |
| Queen Victoria in 1839. From a Drawing by R.J. Lane, A.R.A. | 1 |
| Thomas Carlyle. From the Fraser Gallery | 16 |
| The Queen’s First Council—Kensington Palace, June 20, 1837. From the Picture by Sir David Wilkie, R.A., at Windsor Castle | 18 |
| A Show of Twelfth-Cakes. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 20 |
| Greenwich Park. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 22 |
| The Chimney-Sweeps’ Annual Holiday. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 24 |
| Beating the Bounds. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 26 |
| Bartholomew Fair. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 28 |
| Vauxhall Gardens. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 30 |
| In Fleet Street. Proclaiming the Queen. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ | 56 |
| Leigh Hunt. From the Fraser Gallery | 64 |
| John Galt. From the Fraser Gallery | 86 |
| The Queen receiving the Sacrament after her Coronation. Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. From the Picture by C.R. Leslie, R.A., at Windsor Castle | 94 |
| Theodore Hook. From the Fraser Gallery | 100 |
| The Countess of Blessington. From the Fraser Gallery | 110 |
| Count d’Orsay. From the Fraser Gallery | 112 |
| Sydney Smith. From the Fraser Gallery | 116 |
| John Baldwin Buckstone. From the Fraser Gallery | 126 |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd. From the Fraser Gallery | 128 |
| Mary Russell Mitford. From the Fraser Gallery | 130 |
| Sir Walter Scott. From the Fraser Gallery | 132 |
| Lord Lyndhurst. From the Fraser Gallery | 138 |
| William Cobbett. From the Fraser Gallery | 140 |
| Lord John Russell. From the Fraser Gallery | 144 |
| Edward Lytton Bulwer. From the Fraser Gallery | 148 |
| Benjamin D’Israeli. From the Fraser Gallery | 150 |
| Thomas Campbell. From the Fraser Gallery | 176 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From the Fraser Gallery | 182 |
| William Wordsworth. From the Fraser Gallery | 184 |
| Rev. William Lisle Bowles. From the Fraser Gallery | 186 |
| Pierre-Jean de BÉranger. From the Fraser Gallery | 188 |
| James Hogg. From the Fraser Gallery | 196 |
| Matthew Arnold | 200 |
| Charles Darwin | 201 |
| Holland House | 203 |
| Letting Children down a Coal-Mine. From a Plate in ‘The Westminster Review’ | 225 |
| Children Working in a Coal-Mine. From a Plate in ‘The Westminster Review’ | 229 |
| London Street Characters, 1837. From a Drawing by John Leech | 231 |
| Marshalsea—The Courtyard. From a Drawing by C.A. Vanderhoof | 239 |
