"Chaffing" a Proctor 562 Summary Proceedings of Winter 563 "Something Wrong in the Chest" 564 Warren's Blacking 564 The Wine-cellar and the Book-seller 565 Sir Robert Peel's Anecdote of Theodore Hook 565 A Receipt against Night Air 566 Punting 566 "List" Shoes 567 "The Abattoir" 568 Putney Bridge 568 "Mr. Thompson is Tired" 568 The Original "Paul Pry" 569 Hook and Tom Hill 570 Hook's Politeness 570 A Biscuit and a Glass of Sherry 571 Much Alike 572 Private Medical Practice 572 Hook's Street Fun 572 A Misnomer 572 "Contingencies" 573 "The Widow's Mite" 573 Hook's Extempore Verses 573 Hook Extemporises a Melodrama 575 "Ass-ass-ination" 578 "Weather or No" 578 Diamond Cut Diamond 579 Tom Moore--Losing a Hat 579 "Good Night" 579 [Illustration: (end of section icon)] [Illustration: PUTNEY, AS SEEN FROM THE SITTING-ROOM WINDOW OF HOOK'S COTTAGE.] [Illustration: SPECIMEN OF THEODORE HOOK'S AUTOGRAPH.] MEMOIR OF THEODORE HOOK. MEMOIR OF THEODORE HOOK. The life of the distinguished humourist whose _opera minora_ we now present to the world, was so chequered and diversified by remarkable incidents and adventures, and passed so much in the broad eye of the world and of society, as to be more than ordinarily interesting. The biography of a man of letters in modern times seldom affords so entertaining a narrative, or so instructive and pathetic a lesson, exhibiting how useless and futile are the most brilliant powers and talents, both original and transmitted, without a due admixture of that moral principle and wisdom in daily life necessary to temper and control them.