Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists. John Timbs

THE AUTHORSHIP OF “WAVERLEY.”

       QUID PRO QUO.

       HOPE’S “ANASTASIUS.”

       SMART REPARTEE.

       COLTON’S “LACON.”

       BUNYAN’S COPY OF “THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.”

       LITERARY LOCALITIES.

       CREED OF LORD BOLINGBROKE.

       BUNYAN’S PREACHING.

       HONE’S “EVERY-DAY BOOK.”

       BUNYAN’S ESCAPES.

       DROLLERY SPONTANEOUS.

       ORIGIN OF COWPER’S “JOHN GILPIN.”

       HARD FATE OF AUTHORS.

       JAMES SMITH, ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF “REJECTED ADDRESSES.”

       CONTEMPORARY COPYRIGHTS.

       MISS BURNEY’S “EVELINA.”

       EPITAPH ON CHARLES LAMB.

       “TOM CRINGLE’S LOG.”

       CHANCES FOR THE DRAMA.

       FULLER’S MEMORY.

       LORD HERVEY’S WIT.

       ANACREONTIC INVITATION, BY MOORE.

       THE POETS IN A PUZZLE.

       SALE OF MAGAZINES.

       MRS. SOUTHEY.

       DEVOTION TO SCIENCE.

       DISADVANTAGEOUS CORRECTION.

       PATRONAGE OF LITERATURE.

       DR. JOHNSON’S WIGS.

       SHERIDAN’S “PIZARRO.”

       DR. JOHNSON IN LONDON.

       REGALITY OF GENIUS.

       FIELDING’S “TOM JONES.”

       VOLTAIRE AND FERNEY.

       CLEAN HANDS.

       MODERATE FLATTERY.

       EVERY-DAY LIFE OF JAMES SMITH.

       FRENCH-ENGLISH JEU-DE-MOT.

       RELICS OF IZAAK WALTON.

       PRAISE OF ALE.

       DANGEROUS FOOLS.

       BULWER’S POMPEIAN DRAWING-ROOM.

       STERNE’S SERMONS.

       “TOM HILL.”

       TYCHO BRAHE’S NOSE.

       FOOTE’S WOODEN LEG.

       RIVAL REMEMBRANCE.

       WHO WROTE “JUNIUS’S LETTERS”?

       LITERARY COFFEE-HOUSES IN THE LAST CENTURY.

       LORD BYRON AND “MY GRANDMOTHER’S REVIEW.”

       WALPOLE’S WAY TO WIN THEM.

       DR. JOHNSON’S CRITICISMS.

       GIBBON’S HOUSE, AT LAUSANNE.

       ORIGIN OF “BOZ.” (DICKENS.)

       BOSWELL’S “LIFE OF JOHNSON.”

       PATRONAGE OF AUTHORS.