CHAPTER CXLVI.—p. 113. DANIEL DOVE VERSUS SENECA AND BEN JONSON. ORLANDO AND HIS HORSE AT RONCESVALLES. MR. BURCHELL. THE PRINCE OF ORANGE. THE LORD KEEPER GUILDFORD. REV. MR. HAWTAYN. DR. THOMAS JACKSON. THE ELDER SCALIGER. EVELYN. AN ANONYMOUS AMERICAN. WALTER LANDOR, AND CAROLINE BOWLES. ——Contented with an humble theme I pour my stream of panegyric down The vale of Nature, where it creeps and winds Among her lovely works with a secure And unambitious course, reflecting clear, If not the virtues, yet the worth of brutes. COWPER. CHAPTER CXLVII.—p. 124. OLD TREES. SHIPS. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. LIFE AND PASSIONS ASCRIBED TO INANIMATE OBJECTS. FETISH WORSHIP. A LORD CHANCELLOR AND HIS GOOSE. _Ce que j'en ay escrit, c'est pour une curiosité, qui plaira possible à aucuns: et non possible aux autres._ BRANTOME. CHAPTER EXTRAORDINARY.—p. 140. PROCEEDINGS AT A BOOK CLUB. THE AUTHOR ACCUSED OF ‘_Lese delicatesse_,’ OR WHAT IS CALLED AT COURT ‘TUM-TI-TEE.’ HE UTTERS A MYSTERIOUS EXCLAMATION, AND INDIGNANTLY VINDICATES HIMSELF. _Rem profecto mirabilem, longeque stupendam, rebusque veris veriorem describo._ HIERONYMUS RADIOLENSIS. CHAPTER CXLVIII.—p. 161. WHEREIN A SUBSTITUTE FOR OATHS, AND OTHER PASSIONATE INTERJECTIONS IS EXEMPLIFIED. What have we to do with the times? We cannot cure 'em: Let them go on: when they are swoln with surfeits They'll burst and stink: Then all the world shall smell 'em. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. CHAPTER CXLIX.—p. 174. A PARLOUS QUESTION ARISING OUT OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTER. MR. IRVING AND THE UNKNOWN TONGUES. TAYLOR THE WATER POET. POSSIBLE SCHEME OF INTERPRETATION PROPOSED. OPINIONS CONCERNING THE GIFT OF TONGUES AS EXHIBITED IN MADMEN. Speak what terrible language you will, though you understand it not yourselves, no matter! Chough's language, gabble enough and good enough. SHAKESPEARE. CHAPTER CL.—p. 184. THE WEDDING PEAL AT ST. GEORGE'S, AND THE BRIDE'S APPEARANCE AT CHURCH. See how I have strayed! and you'll not wonder when you reflect on the whence and the whither. ALEXANDER KNOX. CHAPTER CLI.—p. 188. SOMETHING SERIOUS. If thou hast read all this Book, and art never the better, yet catch this flower before thou go out of the garden, and peradventure the scent thereof will bring thee back to smell the rest. HENRY SMITH. CHAPTER CLII.—p. 196. ODD OPINIONS CONCERNING BIOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION. THE AUTHOR MAKES A SECOND HIATUS AS UNWILLINGLY AS HE MADE THE FIRST, AND FOR THE SAME COGENT REASON. _Ya sabes—pero es forzoso Repetirlo, aunque lo sepas._ CALDERON. CHAPTER CLIII.—p. 200. MATRIMONY AND RAZORS. LIGHT SAYINGS LEADING TO GRAVE THOUGHTS. USES OF SHAVING. I wonder whence that tear came, when I smiled In the production on't! Sorrow's a thief That can when joy looks on, steal forth a grief. MASSINGER. CHAPTER CLIV.—p. 209.