Reminiscences of Juke Judkins, Esq., of Birmingham 342 523 Contributions to Hone's _Every-Day Book_ and _Table Book_ 349 523 I. Remarkable Correspondent 349 527 II. Captain Starkey 351 528 III. Twelfth of August 354 528 IV. The Ass 356 529 V. _In re_ Squirrels 359 530 VI. An Appearance of the Season 360 531 VII. The Months 361 531 VIII. Reminiscence of Sir Jeffery Dunstan 366 532 IX. Mrs. Gilpin Riding to Edmonton 368 533 X. The Defeat of Time 369 534 An Autobiographical Sketch 375 535 Shakspeare's Improvers 376 535 Saturday Night 379 537 Estimate of De Foe's Secondary Novels 381 537 Clarence Songs 383 539 Recollections of a Late Royal Academician 385 540 The Latin Poems of Vincent Bourne 391 544 The Death of Munden 397 545 Thoughts on Presents of Game, &c. 398 546 Table-Talk by the Late Elia 400 547 The Death of Coleridge 406 549 Cupid's Revenge 407 550 APPENDIX ESSAYS AND NOTES NOT CERTAIN TO BE LAMB'S, BUT PROBABLY HIS Scraps of Criticism 425 551 The Miscellany 427 552 Review of Dibdin's _Comic Tales_ 429 552 Dog Days 430 553 The Progress of Cant 431 554 Mr. Ephraim Wagstaff 432 554 Review of Moxon's Sonnets 435 554 NOTES 437 FRONTISPIECE CHARLES LAMB (AGED 30) IN THE DRESS OF A VENETIAN SENATOR From A Painting By William Hazlitt Now in the National Portrait Gallery ROSAMUND GRAY (WRITTEN 1797-1798. FIRST EDITION 1798. TEXT OF 1818) CHAPTER I It was noontide. The sun was very hot. An old gentlewoman sat spinning in a little arbour at the door of her cottage. She was blind; and her grandaughter was reading the Bible to her. The old lady had just left her work, to attend to the story of Ruth.