_Hundred Merry Tales_, 7, 98, 111, 113, 153-61, 167, 201, 208. Jack of Dover, 141, 149. Jack the Giant-Killer, 136. Jerrold, Douglas, 11, 73. Joe Miller, 6, 7, 98, 178, 188 _et seqq._ Johnson, Dr., 116. Jonson, Benjamin, 98, 105, 107. _Knight of the Burning Pestle, The_, 107. _Knight of the Tour Landry_, 171. Lamb, Charles, 73, 79, 114, 124. Liston, 35. Literary Club, The, 115-16. Literature and the Drama, 22. Lock, Mr., of Norbury, 192. London Tavern, The, 82-3. Lucian, 33, 35, 62. Mackintosh, Sir James, 53. Macrobius, _Saturnalia_ of, 44. _Malaprop, Mrs._, 95-6. Malone, E., 24, 80-81, 101, 115-16, 192. _Maloniana_, 20, 101. “Martin said to his man,” a ballad, 131. Matthews, Charles, 10. May, Thomas, 98. _Mensa Philosophica_, 44. Mermaid, The, 32. _Merry Tales and Quick Answers_, 33-4, 105, 117, 119, 123, 162-7. Mitre, The, 32. More, Sir Thomas, 118, 154-67. Mother Bunch, 149. Mottley, John, 188-99. Myrtilus, 43. _New Wife of Beath_, 75-7. Newcastle, Duke of, 212. Nithardus, 1. Oriental influence, 16, 121-4. Parallelisms, 105-7, 112-14. Parodies, Greek, 42. Parr, Dr., 53. Partington, Mrs., 90-91. Pasquil’s Jests, 147. Pausanius Laccus, 37. Peele, George, 168. Pennant, Thomas, 212-13. Philip of Macedon, 36. Phryne, 36, 40. Piozzi, Mrs., 116. Plato, 64. _Plutarch’s Lives_, 32-3. Pool Valley, Brighton, 105. Quin, 10. Rahere, 1. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 116. Rameses dynasty, 16. Randolph, Thomas, 98-9. Rastells, The, 154, 158, 162. Raumer, F. von, 96. Ravenscroft’s _Deuteromelia_, 130-31. _Reynard the Fox_, 30. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 116. Richard III. and the Northern man, 206. Richardson, Jonathan, 24, 81. Roses, Wars of the, 204-5. Sackful of News, The, 147. _Schoolmaster, The, or Teacher of Table Philosophy_, 44. Schools of humour, old and modern, 193. _Scogin, Jests of_, 19-21, 109, 168. Scottish minister, Story of a, 220-21. Scottish stories, 90, 215. Shakespear, 7, 115, 124, 146. ---- Jest-Books, 152-67. Sheridan, R. B., 110, 113. Shoes, mending of, 201. Sixty, The Athenian Club of the, 36, 65-6. Skelton, John, 159, 168, 174-6, 210, 218. Smith, Sydney, 9. Spenser, 7, 159. Strawberry, 140. Tadema, Alma, R.A., 97. Talfourd, Frank, 10. Tarlton, Richard, 35, 152, 168, 172, 179, 183. Tavern-life, 32. Taylor the Water Poet, 153, 178-82. Testament, New, Anecdote of the, 205. Thales, 52-3. Tooke, John Horne, 82-3. Turanian art, 16. Typography, 15, 17. United States, 28. Wales and the Welsh, characteristics of, 217-19. Walpole, Horace, 125, 193. Walworth, 1. Warton, Joseph, 67. Wellington, Duke of, 211. Whittington, Sir Richard, 1. Wooden Legs, The Man with, 78. Woolner, Richard, 181. Wright Thomas, 5. Yeo, an ancient Devonshire family, 204.