THE SLAVE'S DREAM-- The Swell's Dream, 1883 90 THE SAGA OF KING OLAF-- Queen Sigrid, the Haughty 92 The Saga of the Skaterman, 1884 93 A Modern Saga, 1879 93 The Poets on the Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill (Parodies of Longfellow and Swinburne) 100 The Derby Week, 1878 92 William Morris. The Monthly Parodies 65 Bayard Taylor. DIVERSIONS OF THE ECHO CLUB 93 Sir Eggnogg 45 Nauvoo 94 The Sewing Machine 94 Eustace Green 181 Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Poet Laureate). Tennyson's Early Career 3 Tennyson's Lineage 28 Tennyson as Poet Laureate 33 Tennyson's Plagiarisms 181 TIMBUCTOO, The Cambridge Prize Poem, 1829, Thackeray's Parody on 3 LILIAN-- Caroline 5 MARIANA-- Mariana at the Railway Station 4 The Wedding Dress 5 The Bow Street Grange 17 Behind Time 48 The Clerk, 1842 57 The Baggage Man 58 On a Dull old Five-Act Play, 1848 142 The Exiled Londoner, 1848 142 Lord Tomnoddy in the Final Schools, 1868 143 "They lifted him with kindly care" 144 The M.P. on the Railway Committee, 1845 145 The Squatter's 'Baccy Famine, 1880 178 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS-- Recollections of the Stock Exchange 186 A CHARACTER-- A Character (M. Jullien) 24 THE POET-- The Poet of the Period 6 THE BALLAD OF ORIANA-- "Oriana" at the Globe Theatre 4 The Ballad of Boreäna 17