The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes. Various
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Child and Goat, 103
China Ware, 129
Christmas Pudding Extraordinary, 20
Clerambault and La Fontaine, 126
Cobbler of Leyden, The, 114
Cochrane, Sir John, 46
Cochrane, Lord, 56
Coleridge's "Watchman", 107
Coleridge and his Dinner Companion, 126
Conjugal Affection—French Troops in Italy, 4
Cornwallis, Admiral, and the Mutineers, 105
Crimean Captain, 111
Curran
and Dr. Boyse, 40 and the Jockey, 67 and the Farmer, 69 his Witty Replies, 70
Cuvier and his Visitors, 116
Day, Thomas, and Sir W. Jones, 72
Deaf and Dumb Mother, 1
Denon and Defoe, 16
Dey of Algiers and Admiral Keppel, 104
Dickens—Origin of "Boz", 15
Dictionaries, 14
Dieppe Pilot, 43
Domat, Judge, and the Poor Widow, 11
Douglas, The, 47
Drama, The, 27-33
Dreaming, 129
Drummond, Provost, 52
Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pitt—a Dispute in Bed, 86
Duncan, Admiral, 121
Duty, 34
Duval, the Librarian, 77
Edinburgh—Spoiled Street, 130
Erskine and Lord Kellie, 126
Erskine, Legal Anecdotes of, 67-68
Eveillan, Archdeacon of Angers, 57
Faithful Depositary, 37
Faithful Domestic, 36
Falkland, Lord, and the House of Commons, 86
Family Sacrifice—French Revolution, 4
Fear of Death, 58
Fenelon, Archbishop—his Humanity, 56
Fidelity, 35-37
Fielding, Sir J., and the Irishman, 71
Filial Affection—French Boy, 2
Fletcher, of Saltown, and his Footman, 113
Fontenelle, 37, 38
Fools, 38
Foote, the Actor, 33
Forgiveness, 39
Fouché and Napoleon, 91
Francis I. and his Fool, 38
Frederick the Great
and the Page, 61 and the Soldier, 62 and the Deserter, 62 his Arguments, 62
French
Curate—Forgiveness, 39 Peasant Girl, 45 Officer in Flanders, 77 Officer in Spain, 77 Servant at Noyon, 95 of La Vendée, 91
Friends, 40
Gainsborough—Picture of the Pigs, 6
Garrick and Rich, 33
Garrick and Sir J. Reynolds, 115
Gendarmes and Priest, 91
George
I. and the Lieutenant, 121 II. and the Dutch-Innkeeper, 64 and the Court Martial, 122 III. —Punctuality, 64 Carbonel the Wine Merchant, 65 The Horse Dealer, 66 Memorial to a Servant, 66 Treatment of a Caricature, 66 and Lord Lothian, 102
Ghosts, 42
Gibbet, Sight of a, 117
Gin versus Drugs, 25
Glynn, Dr., and the Magpie, 12
Gonsalvo de Cordova, 119
Goldsmith's Marlow, 32
Gooch, Sir W., and the Negro, 90
Gratitude, 40
Gregory, Dr., a Militiaman, 38
Granby, Marquis of, and the Lord-in-Waiting, 108
Grancé, Count de, and the Cannon Ball, 112
Grenadier, French, 121
Grog, 103
Guise, Colonel, 24
H., Letter, Use of, 14
Haddock, Admiral, 102
Handel, 82
Hanging Judge, The, 73
Hanway, Jonas, and the Coachman, 107
Hawker, Colonel, and the French Officer, 77
Haydn, 84
Heavy Play, A, 28
Heber's Palestine, 14
Henderson and the Actor, 113
Henri IV. and D'Aubigné, 40
Heroism, 43
Hill,
Sergeant, 75 Rowland, 101
Hogarth—Picture of the Red Sea, 9