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CONTENTS.
1. AN INTRODUCTORY TALK UPON TABLE-TALK
2. NAMES OF AUTHORS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
4. MONUMENT OF THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI
5. CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IRELAND
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6. ANCIENT PETER SCHLIMMELS; OR, MEN DEPRIVED OF THEIR
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77
81
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SHADOWS
7. DILEMMAS
8. GASCONADES
9. A FRAGMENT OF ZoïLUS
10. EXAMINATION OF RECRUITS
11. THE VALLEY OF CHAMOUNI
12. MODERN PERKIN WARBECKS
13. SECRET POISONING
14. A FOREIGN COOK IN 1630
15. SEASON FOR OYSTERS AND LOBSTERS
16. EXPENSES FOR MARRIAGE-DRESSES IN THE TIME OF
17. A CHAPTER ON HATS
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27. EPITAPH IN THE CHURCHYARD OF MORETON-IN-MARSH
29. INTRODUCTION OF ENGLISH HORSES INTO FRANCE
30. PIGS, KINGS, AND MONKS
31. ETIQUETTE on the SCAFFOLD
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32. MISCELLANEOUS POINTS IN THE HISTORY of the SCIENCES 188
43. WHICH IS THE WORST FATE THAT CAN BEFALL A NEW POEM? 243
53. How IT HAPPENED THAT THE CARDINAL DU PERRON HAD
A PRODIGIOUS MEMORY
54. TURKISH PROVERBS
55. A DEVIL AT THE TOP OF ST. PAUL'S
56. THE DUKE DE LAVAL
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59. LE PETIT PERE ANDRE, and other odd PREACHERS