CONTENTS INDUCTION. FIRST COURSE: WEST COUNTRY CHRONICLES. INTRODUCTION. SIR MATHEW ALE. THE COUNTERPART COUSINS. CADDY CUDDLE. THE BRAINTREES. THE SHAM FIGHT. THE BACHELOR'S DARLING. THE LOVES OF HABAKKUK BULLWRINKLE, GENTLEMAN. SECOND COURSE: THE NEIGHBOURS OF AN OLD IRISH BOY. INTRODUCTION. JIMMY FITZGERALD. THE NATIVE AND THE ODD FISH. TIMBERLEG TOE-TRAP. BAT BOROO. THE WITCH'S SWITCH. THE WEED WITNESS. ME AND MY GHOST-SHIP. THE NEST EGG. UNDER THE THUMB. OUR TOMMY. THE DENTIST. THE MUSHROOM. THE DILLOSK GIRL. THIRD COURSE: MY COUSIN'S CLIENTS. INTRODUCTION. ADAM BURDOCK. THE MATHEMATICIAN. THE LITTLE BLACK PORTER. THE DESSERT. INTRODUCTION. THE DEAF POSTILION. CONJUGATING A VERB. POSTHUMOUS PRAISE. THE DOS-A-DOS TETE-A-TETE. A TOAD IN A HOLE. THE PAIR OF PUMPS. WANTED A PARTNER. HANDSOME HANDS. MISLED BY A NAME. TALES OF HUMOUR, GALLANTRY & ROMANCE, Selected And Translated From The Italian. With Sixteen Illustrative Drawings by George Cruikshank. CONTENTS ITALIAN TALES. THE TEACHER TAUGHT. THE UNEXPECTED REPLY. WHO AM I? THE DEAD RIDER. THE SKILFUL PHYSICIAN THE POMEGRANATE SEED THE FATAL MISTAKE THE DEAD ALIVE THE FALSE CHAMPION THE MERCHANT OF VENICE THERE IS A SKELETON IN EVERY HOUSE. THE ELOPEMENT. THE FRIAR ENTRAPPED ANTONIO AND VERONICA. BELPHAGOR. THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT THE COUNTERPARTS ODD VOLUME; OR, BOOK OF VARIETY By Various Illustrated By Robert Seymour and Robert Cruikshank The Engravings by Samuel Slader 1835 CONTENTS PREFACE. THE ODD VOLUME LEGEND OF THE LARGE MOUTH. STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM. THE ROSE IN JANUARY. THE MARCH OF MIND. THE OLD GENTLEMAN’S TEETOTUM. A WATER PARTY. THE ANGLER AND THE FOWLER. THE ELOPEMENT. SUBJECTS OF CONVERSATION. INCONVENIENCIES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED. THE NEW “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.” TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. FORTY YEARS AGO. NECK OR NOTHING. THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. THE CLOAKS. A COMICAL ADVENTURE. HOW TO MAKE A PAPER. THE NIGHTMARE. A GALL-ING SYSTEM. THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, VOL. I. (of II) The Life Of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs By Blanchard Jerrold With Numerous Illustrations 1882 CONTENTS DEDICATION. PREFACE. THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. EPOCH I. 1794—1847. CHAPTER I. TWO EPOCHS. CHAPTER II. FROM CRANACH TO CRUIKSHANK. CHAPTER III. CRUIKSHANK’S EARLY DAYS. CHAPTER IV. CRUIKSHANK AS A POLITICAL CARICATURIST. CHAPTER V. “LIFE IN LONDON,” “LIFE IN PARIS,” “POINTS OF HUMOUR,” ETC. CHAPTER VI. HAND-TO-MOUTH WORK. CHAPTER VII. THREE COURSES AND A DESSERT CHAPTER VIII. SKETCHES BY BOZ, OLIVER TWIST, AND THE LIFE OF GRIMALDI. CHAPTER IX. ILLUSTRATIONS TO HARRISON AINSWORTH’S ROMANCES. CHAPTER X. THE OMNIBUS. THE LIFE of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK By Blanchard Jerrold Illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK In Two Volumes—Volume Two 1882