BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. VOL. II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1837. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. ADDRESS. Twelve months have elapsed since we first took the field, and every successive number of our Miscellany has experienced a warmer reception, and a more extensive circulation, than its predecessor. In the opening of the new year, and the commencement of our new volume, we hope to make many changes for the better, and none for the worse; and, to show that, while we have one grateful eye to past patronage, we have another wary one to future favours; in short, that, like the heroine of the sweet poem descriptive of the faithlessness and perjury of Mr. John Oakhum, of the Royal Navy, we look two ways at once. It is our intention to usher in the new year with a very merry greeting, towards the accomplishment of which end we have prevailed upon a long procession of distinguished friends to mount their hobbies on the occasion, in humble imitation of those adventurous and aldermanic spirits who gallantly bestrode their foaming chargers on the memorable ninth of this present month, while "The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad." These, and a hundred other great designs, preparations, and surprises, are in contemplation, for the fulfilment of all of which we are already bound in two volumes cloth, and have no objection, if it be any additional security to the public, to stand bound in twenty more. BOZ. 30th November, 1837. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. SONGS of the Month--July, by "Father Prout;" August; September, by "Father Prout;" October, by J.M.; November, by C.D.; December, by Punch Pages 1, 109, 213, 321, 429, 533 Papers by Boz: Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress, 2, 110, 215, 430, 534 The Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything 397 Poetry by Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson: Elegiac Stanzas 16 Lady Blue's Ball 380 My Father's Old Hall 453 Fictions of the Middle Ages: The Butterfly Bishop, by Delta 17 A New Song to the Old Tune of Kate Kearney 25 What Tom Binks did when he didn't know what to do with himself 26 A Gentleman Quite 36 The Foster-Child 37 The White Man's Devil-house, by F.H. Rankin 46 A Lyric for Lovers 50