PAGE _The Beckfords and Fonthill_ 1 _Alderman Beckford's Monument Speech in Guildhall_ 19 _Beau Brummel_ 22 _Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart_ 36 _"Romeo" Coates_ 41 _Abraham Newland_ 44 _The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton_ 48 _Lord Petersham_ 55 _The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands_ 57 _Sir Edward Dering's Luckless Courtship_ 59 _Gretna-Green Marriages_ 63 _The Agapemone, or Abode of Love_ 68 _Singular Scotch Ladies_ 70 _Mrs. Bond, of Hackney_ 72 _John Ward, the Hackney Miser_ 74 "_Poor Man of Mutton_" 76 _Lord Kenyon's Parsimony_ 77 _Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter_ 78 _The Eccentric Miss Banks_ 80 _Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville_ 82 _Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant_ 87 _"Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell_ 89 _Profits of Dust-sifting and Dust-heaps_ 92 _Sir John Dinely, Bart._ 95 _The Rothschilds_ 96 _A Legacy of Half-a-Million of Money_ 99 _Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater_ 103 _The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family_ 105 "_Dog Jennings_" 107 _Baron Ward's Remarkable Career_ 109 _A Costly House-Warming_ 112 _Devonshire Eccentrics_ 113 _Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier_ 116 _Lady Archer_ 122 DELUSIONS, IMPOSTURES, AND FANATIC MISSIONS. _Modern Alchemists_ 124 _Jack Adams, the Astrologer_ 130 _The Woman-hating Cavendish_ 132 _Modern Astrology.--"Witch Pickles"_ 136 _Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob"_ 139 _Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope_ 141 _Hermits and Eremitical Life_ 145 _The Recluses of Llangollen_ 155 _Snuff-taking Legacies_ 158 _Burial Bequests_ 159 _Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill_ 163 _Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains_ 166