Political Songs and Squibs:— |
Carmen Æstuale | 133 |
Ass-ass-ination | 135 |
Michael's Dinner | 138 |
Mrs. Muggins's Visit to the Queen | 140 |
Hunting the Hare | 147 |
The City Concert | 152 |
Invitations to Dinner | 156 |
Vacation Reminiscences | 159 |
Reminiscences Continued | 162 |
Gaffer Grey | 166 |
The Idle Apprentice turned Informer | 170 |
The Queen's Subscription | 174 |
Opposition | 178 |
The Invitation | 184 |
The Beggars—A New Song | 188 |
Bubbles of 1825 | 194 |
The Grand Revolution | 197 |
Imitation of Bunbury's "Little Grey Man" | 200 |
Humpty-Dumpty | 203 |
Parody—"While Johnny Gale Jones" | 204 |
Parody—"The young May Moon" | 205 |
Disappointment | 206 |
Tentamen; or, an Essay towards the History of Whittington, some time Lord Mayor of London | 207 |
Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose:— |
Mr. Ward's Allegorical Picture of Waterloo | 249 |
Letter from a Goose | 259 |
The Hum-Fum Gamboogee Society | 262 |
Moral Theatricals | 269 |
Private Correspondence of Public Men | 275 |
The Cockney's Letter | 280 |
Byroniana | 284 |
Lord Wenables | 288 |
Lord Wenables Again | 304 |
Modern Improvements (Two Letters) | 309 |
Punning, with Cautionary Verses to Youth of both Sexes | 316 |
Fashionable Parties | 322 |
A Day's Proceedings of a Reformed Parliament | 325 |
Clubs | 333 |
Rachel Stubbs' Letter to Richard Turner | 336 |
Mr. Minus the Poet | 338 |
National Distress | 339 |
Hints for the Levee | 347 |
The Inconsistencies of Cant | 350 |
Prince Puckler-Muskau's Tour | 355 |
Prospectus for a General Burying Company | 388 |
Letter from John Trot to John Bull | 392 |
The March of Intellect | 395 |
Sunday Bills | 400 |
The Spinster's Progress | 405 |
Errors of the Press | 409 |
The Visit to Wrigglesworth | 413 |
A Visit to the Old Bailey | 440 |
The Toothpick-makers' Company | 453 |
The Man-servant's Letter | 464 |
The Bibliomaniac | 468 |
Absence of Mind | 469 |
A Distinguished Traveller | 470 |
Daly's Practical Jokes | 471 |
The Ballet | 492 |
Toll-gates and their Keepers | 496 |
Tom Sheridan's Adventure | 499 |
Polly Higginbottom | 503 |
Song—"Mary once had Lovers two" | 504 |
Philip and Donna Louisa | 505 |
The Blacksmith | 506 |
"My Father did so before me" | 507 |
"Throughout my Life the Girls I've pleased" | 508 |
The Chambermaid | 509 |
Song, "When I was a very little Fellow" | 509 |
Sir Tilbury Tott | 511 |
"Venice Preserved" | 513 |
Daylight Dinners | 515 |
Clubs! | 516 |
Visitings | 518 |
The Quill Manufacturer | 522 |
Epigram on Twining's Tea | 522 |
On the Latin Gerunds | 522 |
The Splendid Annual | 523 |
Anecdotes, Hoaxes, and Jests:— |
The Berners-street Hoax | 539 |
Romeo Coates | 541 |
Hook, Mathews, and the Alderman | 542 |
A Strange Dinner | 544 |
Ludicrous Adventure at Sunbury | 547 |
Charles Mathews and Hook | 552 |
Hook's "First Appearance" | 553 |
Hook and Dowton the Actor | 554 |
Letter from Mauritius | 555 |
Evading a Coach Fare | 557 |
Unsuccessful Hunt for a Dinner | 559 |
Hook at Lord Melville's Trial | 560 |
The Thirty-nine Articles | 562 |
"Chaffing" a Proctor | 562 |
Summary Proceedings of Winter | 563 |
"Something Wrong in the Chest" | 564 |
Warren's Blacking | 564 |
The Wine-cellar and the Book-seller | 565 |
Sir Robert Peel's Anecdote of Theodore Hook | 565 |
A Receipt against Night Air | 566 |
Punting | 566 |
"List" Shoes | 567 |
"The Abattoir" | 568 |
Putney Bridge | 568 |
"Mr. Thompson is Tired" | 568 |
The Original "Paul Pry" | 569 |
Hook and Tom Hill | 570 |
Hook's Politeness | 570 |
A Biscuit and a Glass of Sherry | 571 |
Much Alike | 572 |
Private Medical Practice | 572 |
Hook's Street Fun | 572 |
A Misnomer | 572 |
"Contingencies" | 573 |
"The Widow's Mite" | 573 |
Hook's Extempore Verses | 573 |
Hook Extemporises a Melodrama | 575 |
"Ass-ass-ination" | 578 |
"Weather or No" | 578 |
Diamond Cut Diamond | 579 |
Tom Moore—Losing a Hat | 579 |
"Good Night" | 579 |