Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia 171 402 Blakesmoor in H----shire 174 405 Poor Relations 178 408 Stage Illusion 185 408 To the Shade of Elliston 188 409 Ellistoniana 190 410 Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 195 411 The Old Margate Hoy 201 415 The Convalescent 208 416 Sanity of True Genius 212 416 Captain Jackson 215 416 The Superannuated Man 219 417 The Genteel Style in Writing 226 420 Barbara S---- 230 421 The Tombs in the Abbey 235 423 Amicus Redivivus 237 424 Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney 242 426 Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago 249 428 Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art 256 433 Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age 266 436 The Wedding 271 436 The Child Angel: a Dream 276 437 A Death-Bed 279 437 Old China 281 438 Popular Fallacies-- I. That a Bully is always a Coward 286 440 II. That Ill-gotten Gain never Prospers 287 440 III. That a Man must not Laugh at his own Jest 287 440 IV. That such a One shows his Breeding.--That it is Easy to Perceive he is no Gentleman 288 440 V. That the Poor Copy the Vices of the Rich 288 440 VI. That Enough is as Good as a Feast 290 440 VII. Of Two Disputants, the Warmest is Generally in the Wrong 291 440 VIII. That Verbal Allusions are not Wit, because they will not Bear a Translation 292 440 IX. That the Worst Puns are the Best 292 440 X. That Handsome is that Handsome does 294 441 XI. That We must not look a Gift-horse in the Mouth 296 441 XII. That Home is Home though it is never so Homely 298 442 XIII. That You must Love Me, and Love my Dog 302 442 XIV. That We should Rise with the Lark 305 443 XV. That We should Lie Down with the Lamb 308 443 XVI. That a Sulky Temper is a Misfortune 309 443