PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

CONTENTS

ROSAMUND GRAY

CURIOUS FRAGMENTS,

EARLY JOURNALISM I. G. F. COOKE IN "RICHARD THE THIRD"

CHARACTERS OF DRAMATIC WRITERS, CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE.

ON THE INCONVENIENCES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED

ON THE DANGER OF CONFOUNDING MORAL WITH PERSONAL DEFORMITY;

ON THE AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM PROPER NAMES

ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF HOGARTH; WITH SOME REMARKS ON A

ON THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A CLUB OF DAMNED AUTHORS

ON BURIAL SOCIETIES; AND THE CHARACTER OF AN UNDERTAKER

ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKSPEARE, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FITNESS FOR STAGE REPRESENTATION

SPECIMENS FROM THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN

EDAX ON APPETITE

HOSPITA ON THE IMMODERATE INDULGENCE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE PALATE

THE GOOD CLERK, A CHARACTER; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF "THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN"

MEMOIR OF ROBERT LLOYD

CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD

RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

TABLE-TALK IN THE EXAMINER I. REYNOLDS AND LEONARDO DA VINCI

REVIEW OF THE EXCURSION; A POEM

ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS

ON NEEDLE-WORK

ON THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE WITHER

FIVE DRAMATIC CRITICISMS I. MRS. GOULD (MISS BURRELL) IN "DON GIOVANNI IN LONDON"

FOUR REVIEWS

SIR THOMAS MORE

THE CONFESSIONS OF H. F. V. H. DELAMORE, Esq .

THE GENTLE GIANTESS

LETTER TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHOSE EDUCATION HAS BEEN NEGLECTED

RITSON VERSUS JOHN SCOTT THE QUAKER

LETTER OF ELIA TO ROBERT SOUTHEY

GUY FAUX

NUGAE CRITICAE

ORIGINAL LETTER OF JAMES THOMSON

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MR. LISTON

A VISION OF HORNS

THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEFUNCT [49]

UNITARIAN PROTESTS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MR. MUNDEN

THE "LEPUS" PAPERS

REFLECTIONS IN THE PILLORY

THE LAST PEACH

"ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE"

THE RELIGION OF ACTORS

A POPULAR FALLACY

REMINISCENCES OF JUKE JUDKINS, ESQ., OF BIRMINGHAM

CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONE'S EVERY-DAY BOOK AND TABLE BOOK

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

SHAKSPEARE'S IMPROVERS

SATURDAY NIGHT

ESTIMATE OF DE FOE'S SECONDARY NOVELS

CLARENCE SONGS

RECOLLECTIONS OF A LATE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN

THE LATIN POEMS OF VINCENT BOURNE

THE DEATH OF MUNDEN

THOUGHTS ON PRESENTS OF GAME, and c.

TABLE-TALK BY THE LATE ELIA

THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE

CUPID'S REVENGE

APPENDIX

SCRAPS OF CRITICISM

THE MISCELLANY

COMIC TALES, Etc .,

DOG DAYS

THE PROGRESS OF CANT

MR. EPHRAIM WAGSTAFF, HIS WIFE, AND PIPE

REVIEW OF MOXON'S SONNETS

NOTES

APPENDIX (2)

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

BY THE SAME EDITOR

• The Life of Charles Lamb
• Mr. Ingleside
• Over Bemerton's
• Listener's Lure
• One Day and Another
• Fireside and Sunshine
• Character and Comedy
• Old Lamps for New
• The Hambledon Men
• The Open Road
• The Friendly Town
• Her Infinite Variety
• Good Company
• The Gentlest Art
• The Second Post
• A Swan and Her Friends
• A Wanderer in London
• A Wanderer in Holland
• A Wanderer in Paris
• Highways and Byways in Sussex
• Anne's Terrible Good Nature
• The Slowcoach
• Sir Pulteney

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The Pocket Edition of the Works of Charles Lamb: I. Miscellaneous Prose; II. Elia; III. Children's Books; IV. Poems and Plays; V. and VI. Letters.