CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR -- XXXIV. Mr. Joseph Cradock�An Author�s Confidings�An Amanuensis�Life at Edgeware�Goldsmith Conjuring�George Colman�The Fantoccini CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE -- XXXV. Broken Health�Dissipation and Debts�The Irish Widow�Practical Jokes�Scrub�A Misquoted Pun�Malagrida�Goldsmith proved to be a Fool�Distressed Ballad-Singers�The Poet at Ranelagh CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX -- XXXVI. Invitation to Christmas�The Spring-velvet Coat�The Haymaking Wig �The Mischances of Loo�The fair Culprit�A dance with the Jessamy Bride CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN -- XXXVII. Theatrical delays�Negotiations with Colman�Letter to Garrick�Croaking of the Manager�Naming of the Play�She Stoops to Conquer�Foote�s Primitive Puppet Show, Piety on Pattens�First Performance of the Comedy�Agitation of the Author�Success�Colman Squibbed out of Town CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT -- XXXVIII. A Newspaper Attack�The Evans Affray�Johnson�s Comment CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE -- XXXIX. Boswell in Holy-Week�Dinner at Oglethorpe�s�Dinner at Paoli�s�The policy of Truth�Goldsmith affects Independence of Royalty�Paoli�s Compliment�Johnson�s Eulogium on the Fiddle�Question about Suicide�Boswell�s Subserviency CHAPTER FORTY -- XL. Changes in the Literary Club�Johnson�s objection to Garrick�Election of Boswell CHAPTER FORTY-ONE -- XLI. Dinner at Dilly�s�Conversations on Natural History�Intermeddling of Boswell�Dispute about Toleration�Johnson�s Rebuff to Goldsmith�His Apology�Man-worship�Doctors Major and Minor�A Farewell Visit CHAPTER FORTY-TWO -- XLII. Project of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences�Disappointment�Negligent Authorship�Application for a Pension�Beattie�s Essay on Truth�Public Adulation�A high-minded Rebuke CHAPTER FORTY-THREE -- XLIII. Toil without Hope�The Poet in the Green- room�In the Flower Garden�At Vauxhall�Dissipation without Gayety�Cradock in Town�Friendly Sympathy�A Parting Scene�An Invitation to Pleasure CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR -- XLIV. A return to Drudgery�Forced Gayety�Retreat to the Country�The Poem of Retaliation�Portrait of Garrick�Of Goldsmith�of Reynolds�Illness of the Poet�His Death�Grief of his Friends�A last Word respecting the Jessamy Bride CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE -- XLV. The Funeral�The Monument�The Epitaph�Concluding Reflections WOLFERT�S ROOST AND MISCELLANIES By Washington Irving CONTENTS A CHRONICLE OF WOLFERT�S ROOST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE KNICKERBOCKER. A CHRONICLE OF WOLFERT�S ROOST. SLEEPY HOLLOW. THE BIRDS OF SPRING. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ALHAMBRA. THE ABENCERRAGE. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND. THE ADELANTADO OF THE SEVEN CITIES. NATIONAL NOMENCLATURE. DESULTORY THOUGHTS ON CRITICISM. SPANISH ROMANCE. LEGEND OF DON MUNIO SANCHO DE HINOJOSA. COMMUNIPAW. CONSPIRACY OF THE COCKED HATS. A LEGEND OF COMMUNIPAW. GUESTS FROM GIBBET-ISLAND. THE BERMUDAS. THE THREE KINGS OF BERMUDA. PELAYO AND THE MERCHANT�S DAUGHTER. THE KNIGHT OF MALTA. THE GRAND PRIOR OF MINORCA, LEGEND OF THE ENGULPHED CONVENT. THE COUNT VAN HORN.