HABITS AND MEN. HABITS AND MEN, WITH Remnants of Record TOUCHING THE MAKERS OF BOTH. BY DR. DORAN, AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS,’ ‘HISTORY OF READING,’ ‘LIFE OF DR. YOUNG,’ ETC. “See, sitting here, Just face to face with you, in cheery guise, A real, live gossip; to your charities Do I appeal, my friends.”—_T. Westwood._ _THIRD EDITION._ LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1855. PRINTED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS. THESE “TRIVIAL, FOND RECORDS” TOUCHING Habits and Men ARE INSCRIBED TO A GOOD MAN, OF GOOD HABITS, TO HENRY HOLDEN FRANKUM, ESQ., IN TESTIMONY OF THE ESTEEM AND REGARD ENTERTAINED FOR HIM BY HIS VERY SINCERE FRIEND THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. PAGE BETWEEN YOU AND ME 1 MAN, MANNERS, AND A STORY WITH A MORAL TO IT 9 ADONIS AT HOME AND ABROAD, PART I. 26 ADONIS AT HOME AND ABROAD, PART II. 40 REMNANTS OF STAGE DRESSES 60 THREE ACTS AND AN EPILOGUE 67 THE TIRING-BOWERS OF QUEENS 88 “LA MODE” IN HER BIRTHPLACE 114 HATS 129 WIGS AND THEIR WEARERS 141 BEARDS AND THEIR BEARERS 158 SWORDS 168 GLOVES, B⸺S, AND BUTTONS 185 STOCKINGS 200 “MASKS AND FACES” 204 PUPPETS FOR GROWN GENTLEMEN 212 TOUCHING TAILORS 227 WHY DID THE TAILORS CHOOSE ST. WILLIAM FOR THEIR PATRON? 229 THE TAILORS MEASURED BY THE POETS 240