[Illustration] CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. BY ISAAC DISRAELI. A New Edition EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES, BY HIS SON, THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. AND NEW YORK CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. CHARLES THE FIRST. 1 DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. 5 THE DEATH OF CHARLES IX. 7 ROYAL PROMOTIONS. 10 NOBILITY 11 MODES OF SALUTATION, AND AMICABLE CEREMONIES, OBSERVED IN VARIOUS NATIONS. 12 FIRE, AND THE ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS. 15 THE BIBLE PROHIBITED AND IMPROVED. 19 ORIGIN OF THE MATERIALS OF WRITING. 23 ANECDOTES OF EUROPEAN MANNERS. 30 THE EARLY DRAMA. 40 THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS. 43 A CONTRIVANCE IN DRAMATIC DIALOGUE. 47 THE COMEDY OF A MADMAN. 48 SOLITUDE 50 LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS. 55 ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND. 59 RICHARDSON. 62 INFLUENCE OF A NAME. 65 THE JEWS OF YORK. 75 THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEAS. 79 ON THE CUSTOM OF KISSING HANDS. 81 POPES. 83 LITERARY COMPOSITION. 85 POETICAL IMITATIONS AND SIMILARITIES. 92 EXPLANATION OF THE FAC-SIMILE. 110 LITERARY FASHIONS. 113 THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS. 116 EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES. 130 MASSINGER, MILTON, AND THE ITALIAN THEATRE. 137 SONGS OF TRADES, OR SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE. 142 INTRODUCERS OF EXOTIC FLOWERS, FRUITS, ETC. 151 USURERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 158 CHIDIOCK TITCHBOURNE. 171 ELIZABETH AND HER PARLIAMENT. 179 ANECDOTES OF PRINCE HENRY, THE SON OF JAMES I., WHEN A CHILD. 186 THE DIARY OF A MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES. 194 DIARIES--MORAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL. 206 LICENSERS OF THE PRESS. 216 OF ANAGRAMS AND ECHO VERSES. 229 ORTHOGRAPHY OF PROPER NAMES. 237 NAMES OF OUR STREETS. 239 SECRET HISTORY OF EDWARD VERE, EARL OF OXFORD. 243 ANCIENT COOKERY, AND COOKS. 245 ANCIENT AND MODERN SATURNALIA. 256 RELIQUIÆ GETHINIANÆ. 270 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 274 CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT DRAMAS. 277 THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE DURING ITS SUPPRESSION. 281 DRINKING-CUSTOMS IN ENGLAND. 292 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 300 CONDEMNED POETS. 303 ACAJOU AND ZIRPHILE. 308 TOM O'BEDLAMS. 311 INTRODUCTION OF TEA, COFFEE, AND CHOCOLATE. 317 CHARLES THE FIRST'S LOVE OF THE FINE ARTS. 326 SECRET HISTORY OF CHARLES THE FIRST, AND HIS QUEEN HENRIETTA. 836 THE MINISTER--THE CARDINAL DUKE OF RICHELIEU. 340 THE MINISTER--DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, LORD ADMIRAL, LORD GENERAL, &C., &C., &C. 355 FELTON, THE POLITICAL ASSASSIN. 371 JOHNSON'S HINTS FOR THE LIFE OF POPE. 380