Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists. John Timbs

LEARNING FRENCH.

       JOHNSON’S CLUB-ROOM.

       DR. CHALMERS’S INDUSTRY.

       LATEST OF DR. JOHNSON’S CONTEMPORARIES. [5]

       A SNAIL DINNER.

       CURRAN’S IMAGINATION.

       COWLEY AT CHERTSEY.

       A PRETTY COMPLIMENT.

       THOMAS DAY, AND HIS MODEL WIFE.

       WASHINGTON IRVING AND WILKIE, IN THE ALHAMBRA.

       BOLINGBROKE AT BATTERSEA.

       RELICS OF MILTON.

       WRITING UP THE “TIMES” NEWSPAPER.

       RELICS OF THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.

       ORIGIN OF “THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.”

       CLEVER STATESMEN.

       THE FIRST MAGAZINE.

       MRS. TRIMMER.

       BOSWELL’S BEAR-LEADING.

       LORD ELIBANK AND DR. JOHNSON

       RELICS OF DR. JOHNSON AT LICHFIELD.

       COLERIDGE A SOLDIER.

       COBBETT’S BOYHOOD.

       COLERIDGE AN UNITARIAN PREACHER.

       FONTENELLE’S INSENSIBILITY.

       PAINS AND TOILS OF AUTHORSHIP.

       JOE MILLER AT COURT.

       COLLINS’ INSANITY.

       MOORE’S EPIGRAM ON ABBOTT.

       NEGROES AT HOME.

       A STRING OF JERROLD’S JOKES.

       CONCEITED ALARMS OF DENNIS.

       A COMPOSITION WITH CONSCIENCE.

       SALE, THE TRANSLATOR OF THE KORAN.

       THE LATTER DAYS OF LOVELACE.

       PAYMENT IN KIND.

       CHATTERTON’S PROFIT AND LOSS RECKONING.

       LOCKE’S REBUKE OF THE CARD-PLAYING LORDS.

       HAYDN AND THE SHIP CAPTAIN.

       HAYDN’S DIPLOMA PIECE AT OXFORD.

       ORIGIN OF THE BEGGAR’S OPERA.

       THE TWO SHERIDANS.

       KILLING NO MURDER.

       SENSITIVENESS TO CRITICISM.

       BUTLER AND BUCKINGHAM.

       THE MERMAID CLUB.

       PORSON’S MEMORY.

       WYCHERLEY’S WOOING.

       A CAROUSE AT BOILEAU’S.

       THOMSON’S INDOLENCE.

       A LEARNED YOUNG LADY.

       A HARD HIT AT POPE.

       DRYDEN DRUBBED.

       ROGERS AND “JUNIUS.”

       ALFIERI’S HAIR.

       SMOLLETT’S HARD FORTUNES.

       JERROLD’S REBUKE TO A RUDE INTRUDER.