FIRST ABSENCE, OR THE SONS OF OLD ETONA ANSWERING MORNING MUSTER-ROLL. 25 A view of the school-yard, Eton, at the time first Absence is called, and just when the learned Doctor Keat is reviewing the upper school. (Portraits.) IV. THE OPPIDAN'S MUSEUM, OR ETON COURT OF CLAIMS AT THE CHRISTOPHER. 49 Bernard Blackmantle and Robert Transit sitting in judge- ment after Election Saturday, apportioning the remuneration money to the different claimants of the surrounding trophies. V. ETON MONTEM, AND THE MOUNT, SALT HILL. 96 An accurate sketch of this ancient customary procession made upon the spot. VI. THE FIRST BOW TO ALMA MATER. 113 Bernard Blackmantle's Introduction to the Big Wig on his Arrival at Oxford. VII. FLOORING OF MERCURY, OR BURNING THE OAKS. 131 A scene in Tom Quadrangle, Oxford. "If wits aright their tale of terror tell, A little after great Mercurius fell, *** Gownsmen and Townsmen throng'd the water's edge To gaze upon the dreadful sacrilege: *** ------there with drooping mien a silent band Canons and Bedmaker together stand:-- *** In equal horror all alike were seen, And shuddering scouts forgot to cap the Dean." VIII. COLLEGE COMFORTS. 151 Taking possession of your rooms. Bernard Blackmantle taking possession of his rooms in Brazennose. Scout's list of wants. Standing the quiz of the Togati Visible propensities of your predecessor. The day of purification. IX. CAP-ING A PROCTOR, OR OXFORD BULL-DOGS DETECTING BRAZENNOSE SMUGGLERS. 152 Tom Echo and Horace Eglantine lowering the plate-basket, after the College-gates are closed, to obtain a supply of fresh provision, are detected by the Proctor and Town Marshal with their Bull-Dogs: in their alarm the basket and its contents are suddenly let fall upon the Proctor, who is not able to under- stand the joke. X. THE ARRIVAL, OR WESTERN ENTRANCE INTO COCKNEY LAND. 164 Portrait of high and low life Dandies and Dandysettes. XI. THE GREEN-ROOM OF THE KING'S THEATRE, R NOBLE AMATEURS VIEWING FOREIGN CURIOSITIES. 198 Portraits of ten noble and distinguished patrons of the opera, with those of certain daughters of Terpsichore.