THE MAY QUEEN-- The Biter Bit 9 The May Queen Corrected, 1879 10 A Farewell Ode to the Brompton Boilers 10 The "May" of the Queen (Judge May) 11 The Play King (Henry Irving) 11 The Opening of the New Law Courts 12 The Queen of the Fête 19 Election's Eve 20 "I'm to be One of the Peers, Vicky" 36 August the Twelfth, 1869 144 A May Dream of the Female Examination 149 The Dray Queen 150 The May Queen in the Existing Climate 151 The Sight-Seeing Emperor, 1877 152 The Welsher's Lament, 1878 152 The Modern May Queen, 1881 152 The Penge Mystery Trial, 1877 152 The May Exam. (By A. Pennysong) 153 The Premier's Lament, 1884 154 The New Lord Mayor, 1881 154 The Lord Mayor to the Lady Mayoress, 1884 154 The Last Lord Mayor to his Favourite Beadle 155 The Eve of the General Election, 1884 155 A Tory Lord on the Franchise Bill, 1884 155 On a Debate on the Franchise Bill, 1884 155 The Premier to Mrs. Gladstone, 1884 156 The Promise of May, 1882 156 The May Queen of 1879 162 "Awake I must, and early," 1861 186 Baron Honour, 1884 186 THE LOTUS EATERS-- The Whitebait Eaters 8 The Ministers at Greenwich 61 A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN-- "I read, before I fell into a doze" 8 "Long time I fed my eyes on that strange scene" 20 A Dream of Queer Women 54 A Dream of Fair Women, and others 55 A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN-- "Dreaming, methought I heard the Laureate's Song" 55 A Dream of Great Players (Lawn Tennis) 160 The Dream of Unfair Women 181