ENGLISH WORDS AND FORMS OF
EXPRESSION,-
That, Page 185.
That mine adversary, 195.
Ye for the, 185.
Apollo, in return for a sketch
of, 525.
Author, to a living, 518.
Bed, to our, 517.
Blades of the shears, 523.
Bonnets, 521.
Butler's monument, 518.
Campbell's album verse, 521.
Clock, the, 525.
Commissary Goldie's brains,
519.
Compliment, overdrawn, 518.
Crier who could not cry, 524.
Dentist, definition of, 522.
Determination, a funny, 526.
Double vision utilized, 527.
Dum vivimus, vivamus, 516.
D.D., on a certain, 521.
Eternity, 518.
Eve and the apple, 523.
Fell, 520.
Fiddler, on a bad, 521.
Fool and poet, 516.
Fools, abundance of, 527.
Friend, to Dr. Robert, 516.
Friend, to a capricious, 519.
Friend in distress, 522.
German tourist, suggested by a,
Giving and taking, 519.
Goodenough, 523.
Hog vs. Bacon, 522.
Impersonal, 524.
Invisible, 524.
Lady who married a footman,
Description of the Saviour's
person, Page 269.
Franklin's parable, 275.
Hoax on Walter Scott, 269.
Ireland's forgeries, 276.
Literary sell, 271.
Moon hoax, 270.
Mrs. Hemans's forgeries, 271.
Sheridan's Greek, 273.
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS FROM UN-
FAMILIAR SOURCES, 556.
FANCIES OF FACT, THE, 406.
Aerolites, 443.
Alligators swallowing stones,
418.
America's discoverers, fate of,
Amount of gold in the world,
Antipathies, 471.
Army of women, 446.
Auditoriums of last century,
Back action, 408.
Beer-casks, capacious, 425.
Bills for strange services, 407.
Black hole at Calcutta, 427.
Broken heart, a, 467.
Chick in the egg, 416.
Cloth-manufacture, celerity of,
Coincidences, singular, 412.
Colors, diversity of, 442.
Composition in dreams, 455.
Cross, true form of the, 409.
Crown of England, 446.
Crude value vs. industrial value,
422.
Devonshire superstition, 475.
Diameter to circumference,
ratio of, 431.
Difference between English
poets, 426.
FANCIES OF FACT, THE,—
Silent compliment, Page 434.
Skull that had a tongue, 475.
Sleep, facts about, 456.
Solomon's temple, cost of, 435.
Star in the East, 447.
Stone barometer, 428.
Strychnia, bitterness of, 428.
Sympathy, strange instance of,
Taste, singular change of, 429.
Walking blindfolded, 473.
Wine at two millions a bottle,
425.
Wounds of Julius Cæsar, 406.
FLASHES OF REPARTEE, 495.
HIBERNIANA, 252.
HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 782.
American monarchy, 786.
Amy Robsart, 808.
Annie Laurie, 804.
Biter bit, 818.
Blucher, 794.
Contemporary criticism, 798.
Discovery of America, 803.
Empire (the) is peace, 794.
First blood of the Revolution,
HISTORICAL MEMORANDA,-
Quaker malignants, Page 786.
Queen Elizabeth's ring, 822.
Robin Adair, 805.
Signing Declaration of Inde-
pendence, 802.
Star-spangled banner, 787.
Tea-party and tea-burning, 783.
Time of Le Grand Monarque, 815
United States Navy, 784.
William Tell, 810.
HISTORICAL SIMILITUDES, 679.
Art stories, 689.
Ballads and legends, 690.
Battles, 697.
Bishop Hatto, 698.
Burial alive, 692.
Death prophecies, 696.
History repeating itself, 681.
Judgment of Solomon, 685.
Legend of Beth Gelert, 686.
Precedency, 685.
Refusal to separate from kin-
dred, 679.
Ring stories, 695.
Two statesmen, the, 683.
HUMORS OF VERSIFICATION, 230.
Bryant as a humorist, 235.
Curse of O'Kelly, 250.
Elegy on Buckland, 233.
Human ear, the, 238.
Lovers, the, 230.
Ologies, the, 244.
Receipt of a rare pipe, 236.
Reiterative vocal music, 248.
Reminiscence of Troy, 234.
Sir Tray, 240.
Song with variations, 231.
Stammering wife, 231.
Thoughts while rocking the
cradle, 232.
Variation humbug, 246.
I. H. S., 130.
Anticipatory use of the cross,135
Beautiful legend, 131.
Death-warrant of Jesus Christ,
Page 134.
De nomine Jesu, 130.
Description of the Saviour's
Double hexameter, 135.
Flower of Jesse, the, 131.
Persian apologue, 132.
IMPROMPTUS, 528.
INSCRIPTIONS, 615.
Beer-jug, inscription on, 621.
Bells, inscriptions on, 623.
Books, flyleaf inscriptions in,627
English inns in olden time, 622.
Eolian harp, inscription on, 633.
Francke's discovery, 636.
Golden mottoes, 636.
House inscriptions, 634.
Memorials, 635.
Motto on a clock, 631.
Posies from wedding-rings, 636.
Spring, inscription over, 633.
Sun-dial inscriptions, 632.
Tavern-signs, 615.
Watch-paper inscription, 631.
Wedding ring, Lady Grey's,
639.
Window-pane inscriptions, 622.
INTERRUPTED SENTENCES, 277.
LIFE AND DEATH, 826.
After, 850.
Beautiful thought, 848.
Bodies, preserved, 836.
Bone not described by modern
anatomists, 832.
Charter, rhyming, 830.
Common heritage, the, 851.
Corpses, folly of embalming, 839.
Death's final conquest, 851.
Definitions, rhyming, 830.
Destiny, 849.
Dying words of distinguished
persons, 833.
LIFE AND DEATH,-
Earth, Page 830.
Evening prayer, 848.
Fleur-de-lis, the, 843.
Futurity, 847.
Heart, the, 848.
Ill success in life, 847.
Imprecatory epitaph, 843.
Lawyers, nice questions for, 831.
Life,beautiful illustrations of 826
Life's parting, 849.
Living life over again, 829.
Mary, Queen of Scots, last
prayer of, 835.
Moral code, Dr. Franklin's, 828.
Plagues of Egypt, 843.
Questions for discussion, 836.
Remarkable trance, 835.
Round of life, the, 827.
Rules of living, 828.
Story of long ago, 844.
Sympathy, 850.
This is not our home, 846.
Time, employment of, 829.
Tripod, the, 843.
Whimsical will, 843.
LITERARIANA, 723.
Additional verses to Sweet
"Anachronisms of Shakspeare,
Books and studies, 755.
Comfort for book lovers, 753.
Conflicting testimony of eye-
witnesses, 750.
Gray's elegy, 729.
Hamlet's age, 745.
Hamlet's insanity, 746.
Heraldry, Indian, 741.
Letters and their endings, 754.
Letters of Junius, 723.
Old paper, an, 753.
Parting interview of Hector
and Andromache, 734.
Pope's versification, 737.
Punctuation, importance of,
Page 738.
Shakspeare and typography, 744
Shakspeare's heroines, 744.
Shakspeare's sonnets, 745.
Stereotyped falsehoods of his-
tory, 747.
Wit and humor, 751.
LITERATI, 756.
Attainments of linguists, 756.
Culture and sacrifice, 761.
Dryden and his publisher, 762.
Literary oddities, 758.
Literary screw, 762.
LORD'S PRAYER, THE, 136.
Acrostical paraphrase, 139.
Echoed, 141.
Gothic version, 136.
Illustrated, 138.
In an acrostic, 142.
Metrical versions, 137.
Spirit of the prayer, 136.
Thy and us, 136.
MACARONIC Verse, 78.
Am Rhein, 83.
Cat and rats, 82.
Contenti abeamus, 81.
Death of the sea serpent, 84.
Fly-leaf scribbling, 82.
Maginn's alternations, 80.
Parting address to a friend, 83.
Polyglot inscription, 83.
Suitor with nine tongues, 80.
reatise of wine, 78.
MEMORIA TECHNICA, 327.
Books of the old Testament, 327.
New Testament, 327.
Days in each month, 330.
Decalogue, the, 329.
English sovereigns, 328.
Metrical Grammar, 330. [328.
Presidents of the United States,
Shakspeare's plays, 328
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