Produced by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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. III. [Illustration] LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. AND NEW YORK CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. PAGE LOCAL DESCRIPTIONS 1 MASQUES 4 OF DES MAIZEAUX, AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF ANTHONY COLLINS'S MANUSCRIPTS 13 HISTORY OF NEW WORDS 23 THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROVERBS 32 CONFUSION OF WORDS 65 POLITICAL NICKNAMES 80 THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF A POET--SHENSTONE VINDICATED 90 SECRET HISTORY OF THE BUILDING OF BLENHEIM 102 SECRET HISTORY OF SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH 111 AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE LAST HOURS OF SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH 124 LITERARY UNIONS 131 OF A BIOGRAPHY PAINTED 136 CAUSE AND PRETEXT 141 POLITICAL FORGERIES AND FICTIONS 144 EXPRESSION OF SUPPRESSED OPINION 150 AUTOGRAPHS 168 THE HISTORY OF WRITING-MASTERS 167 THE ITALIAN HISTORIANS 177 OF PALACES BUILT BY MINISTERS 186 "TAXATION NO TYRANNY" 193 THE BOOK OF DEATH 200 HISTORY OF THE SKELETON OF DEATH 206 THE RIVAL BIOGRAPHERS OF HEYLIN 215 OF LENGLET DU FRESNOY 221 THE DICTIONARY OF TREVOUX 229 QUADRIO'S ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH POETRY 233 "POLITICAL RELIGIONISM" 238 TOLERATION 245 APOLOGY FOR THE PARISIAN MASSACRE 255 PREDICTION 260 DREAMS AT THE DAWN OF PHILOSOPHY 280 ON PUCK THE COMMENTATOR 296