The Dream 206 Genius, or the Dog's-meat Dog, by Egerton Webbe 214 The Poisoners of the Seventeenth Century, by George Hogarth: No. I. The Marchioness de Brinvilliers 229 II. Sir Thomas Overbury 322 Smoke 268 Some Passages in the Life of a Disappointed Man 270 The Professor, by Goliah Gahagan 277 Biddy Tibbs, who cared for Nobody, by H. Holl 288 The Key of Granada 303 Glorvina, the Maid of Meath, by J. Sheridan Knowles 304 An Excellent Offer, by Marmaduke Blake 340 The Autobiography of a Good Joke 354 The Secret, by M. Paul de Kock 360 The Man with the Club-foot 381 A Remonstratory Ode to Mr. Cross on the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by Joyce Jocund 413 Memoirs of Beau Nash 414 Grub-street News 425 The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman 445 The Relics of St. Pius 462 A few Inquiries 470 Lines occasioned by the Death of Count Borowlaski 484 A Chapter on Widows 485 Petrarch in London 494 Adventures in Paris, by Toby Allspy: The Five Floors No. I. 495; No. II. 575 Martial in Town 507 Astronomical Agitation--Reform of the Solar System 508 The Adventures of a Tale, by Mrs. Erskine Norton 511 When and Why the Devil Invented Brandy 518 The Wit in spite of Himself, by Richard Johns 521 The Apportionment of the World, from Schiller 549 Ode to the Queen 568 Suicide 569 The Glories of Good Humour 591 Song of the Modern Time 594 Capital Punishments in London Eighty Years ago--Earl Ferrers 595 A Peter Pindaric to and of a Fog, by Punch 606 The Castle by the Sea 623 Legislative Nomenclature 624