The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes. Various
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the Poet, 125
Presence of Mind, 90-95
Prideaux—Life of Mahomet, 13
Punctuality, 98
Quartering upon the Enemy, 111
Quick the Actor, 32
Racine and his Family, 3
Ragged Regiment, 118
Rank and Ancestry, 95
Reclaimed Robbers, 101
Rejected Addresses, The, 125
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 5
Richardson—opinion of a Picture, 5
Rivardes and the Wooden Leg, 111
Robbers, 100
Robert, King of France, 114
Ross, Lord, 124
Sailors, 101-105
Savage Dr., and the Pope, 132
Savoie, Magdeline De, 110
Schaumbourg, Count, 117
Schools, 105
Scott, Sir W.
—Punctuality, 99 and the Beggar, 11 and the Inn-keeper, 109
Scott, Mr., of Exeter, 98
Selwyn, G., and the Traveller, 116
Senesino and Farinelli, 30
Sentinel on the Stage, 31
Servants, 107
Shaving a Queen, 27
Sheridan, Dr., and the Scholar, 105
Sheridan, 88, 132, 133
Sidney, Sir Philip, 53
Signboards, 109
Sion College, and George III., 131
Sir and Sire, 17
Sisters of Charity, 129
Smith, Sydney, Charity Sermon, 125
Smiths, The Two, 126
Soldiers, 109-112
Sporting, 134
Stackelberg, Baron Von, 54
Steele and Addison, 124
Sterne and the Old Woman, 134
Strasburgh Lawyer, A, 68
Suwarrow, Marshall, 110
Swift, Dean, 10, 21, 22, 109, 131
Talleyrand, Madame de, 16
Tantara, and the Landscape, 9
Temper, 113
Tenterden, Lord, 74
Thelwall and Erskine, 71
"They're all Out", 87
Thomson the Poet, and Quin, 15
Thurot, Admiral, 79
Time, Value of, 115
Travelling, 116
Turenne, Marshal, 112
Turner, The Painter, 6
Tyrolese Heroine, 136
Van Dyke, 40
Vendean Servant, 91
Vernet—Picture of St. Jerome, 8
Villars, Marshal, 110
Villecerf, Madame de, 22
Voisin, Chancellor of Louis XIX., 34
Wager, Sir C., and the Doctors, 25
War, 117-124
Wardlaw, Archbishop of St. Andrew's, 49
Weeping at a Play, 31
Welch Dispute, A, 97
West, the Painter, 7
William III., and St. Evremond, 131
Willie Law, 22
Wise, Dr., and the Parliament, 131
Ximenes, Cardinal, 123
"Yellow Cabriolet," The, 28
York, Duke of, and the Housekeeper, 108
Zimmerman, 23
ANECDOTES.
AFFECTION.
General St. Amour.—This officer, who distinguished himself in the Imperial service, was the son of a poor Piedmontese peasant, but he never forgot his humble extraction. While the army was in Piedmont, he invited his principal officers to an entertainment, when his father happened to arrive just as they were sitting down to table. This being announced to the general, he immediately rose, and stated to his guests his father's arrival. He said he knew the respect he owed to them, but at the same time he hoped they would excuse him if he withdrew, and dined with his father in another room. The guests begged that the father might be introduced, assuring him that they should be happy to see one so nearly related to him; but he replied, "Ah, no, gentlemen; my father would find himself so embarrassed in company so unsuited to his rank, that it would deprive us both of the only pleasure of the interview—the unrestrained intercourse of a parent and his son." He then retired, and passed the evening with his father.
The Deaf and Dumb Mother.—The late Countess of Orkney,