Perhaps the characterisation of an imperial German decree of 1356 as “_a golden bull_” is not more alien to the original sense and function of the word than its pressure into service by the Italian of our day to signify a postage-stamp. [Illustration] [Illustration] INDEX. Adroyns, John, 94. Æsop, 30. Affiliation of Stories, 111. Alanus ab Insulis, 43. Ana or Analecta, 177 _et seqq._ Anecdote, Serious, 32. Aristippus, 43. Aristophanes, 64. Armstrong, Archibald, 108. Artistic origin of the Jest, 13-14. Athenæus, 33, 34, 37-43. Atmosphere and costume, 25. Aulus Gellius, 33, 46-50. Bagot, Sir W., 101. Balguy, Dr., 67. Bardolph, 124. Barkstead, William, 181. Bartholomew’s (St.) Hospital, 1. Boccaccio, Gio., 119. Borde, Andrew, 19, 170. _Bravo of Venice, The_, by Monk Lewis, 88, 127-8. Brighton, 103. Bull, the Jocular, 222. Burbage, Richard, 115. Burke, E., 101. Burns, R., 67. Burton, Robert, 118. Byron, H. J., 10. Byron, Lord, 124. Chamberlain, John, 204. Chamberlain, Robert, 178, 184. Charles II., 2, 79. Chaucer, 7, 119. Chesterfield, Lord, 81-2, 95. Church, the Early, and the Jesters, 20-1. Cibber, Colley, 97. Cicero, 33. Colnbrook, Maltman of, 153. Coleridge, S. T., 124. _Conceits and Jests, Certain_, 178, 184. Continental influence, 142-5. _Convivial Discourses, The_, 44. Copley, Anthony, 178. Crichton, James, the “Admirable,” 43. _Deipnosophistæ_, 36-7, 43-4. Devil Tavern, The, 32, 98. Diogenes and Alexander, Story of, 86. Diogenes Laertius, 33, 50-6. Edith, The Widow, 168, 173. Edward IV., 19, 205. Egyptian artists, 16. Elginbrod, Martin, 122-3. Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature, Neglect of, in the Last Century, 191-3. Engraving, Influence of the, 15. Epigram, The, 67-8. Erasmus, 118. _Eulenspiegel_, 173. Fabliaux, 30. Farmer, Dr., 111. Foote, S., 10. Formulation of Jests, 69. _Four Elements_, Interlude of, 156-8. Franklin, Benjamin, 109. Garrick, David, 116. Gaulardisms, 94. _Gesta Romanorum_, 30. Gillray and Rowlandson, 15. Godolphin, Sydney, 43. Goldsmith, O., 43, 93. Gothamite Tales, The, 215. Goussaut, M., 94-5. Greek Anecdotes, 37-43. ---- Anthology, The, 45, 57-65. ---- Epigrams, 59-64. ---- Parodies, 42. Greene, Robert, 97. Grimaldi, Joseph, 12, 35. Grisette, Parisian, 34. Grotesque and caricature, 6, 14. _Guid and Godly Ballats, The_, 131. Harington, Sir John, 118, 182. Harvey, Gabriel, 159. Hawkins, Sir John, 116. Henry VII., 2, 220. Henry VIII., 21. Henry IV. of France, 86-8. Herodotus, 63. Herring, Archbishop, 93. Hetairai, the Greek, 34, 38, 40. Heywood, John, 112, 158-60, 162. _High Life Below Stairs_, 97. Hobart, Parson, 126. Hobson, Old, 168, 172. Homer, 33. Hood, Thomas, 10. Hook, Theodore, 11.