CONVIVIAL ECCENTRICITIES. _Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall_ 525 _Old Islington Taverns_ 526 _The Oyster and Parched-Pea Club_ 529 _A Manchester Punch-House_ 530 "_The Blue Key_" 533 _Brandy in Tea_ 534 "_The Wooden Spoon_" 535 _A Tipsy Village_ 535 _What an Epicure Eats in his Life-Time_ 536 _Epitaph on Dr. William Maginn_ 538 _Greenwich Dinners_ 539 _Lord Pembroke's Port Wine_ 540 _A Tremendous Bowl of Punch_ 541 MISCELLANEA. _Long Sir Thomas Robinson_ 542 _Lord Chesterfield's Will_ 542 _An Odd Family_ 543 _An Eccentric Host_ 544 _Quackery Successful_ 545 _The Grateful Footpad_ 546 _A Notoriety of the Temple_ 546 _A Ride in a Sedan_ 548 _Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament_ 549 _A Chancery Jeu-d'Esprit_ 551 _Hanging by Compact_ 553 _The Ambassador Floored_ 553 "_The Dutch Mail_" 554 _Bad Spelling_ 556 _A "Single Conspirator_" 559 _A Miscalculation_ 560 _An Indiscriminate Collector_ 561 _The Bishops' Saturday Night_ 563 "_Rather than Otherwise_" 564 _Classic Soup Distribution_ 565 _Alphabet Single Rhymed_ 565 _Non Sequitur and Therefore_ 566 [Illustration] _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS._ PAGE "Vathek" _Beckford. From a Medallion_ 1 _John Farquhar surveying the Ruins of Fonthill_ 21 _Beau Brummel. From a Miniature_ 22 _Lord Alvanley. A Pillar of White's_ 27 _Beau Brummel in Retirement at Calais_ 35 _Sir Lumley Skeffington in a_ "Jean de Brie" 36 _Sir Lumley Skeffington, as dressed for the "Birthday Ball_" 40 _Robert Coates, the Amateur of Fashion, as "Romeo_" 41 _Squire Mytton of Halston on his Bear_ 48 _Lord Petersham; a noble Aide-de-Camp_ 55