[13] Idler, No. 41. [14] See Pursuits of Literature, Dialogue I. note. CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. THE ADVENTURER. 34. Folly of extravagance. The story of Misargyrus 39. On sleep 41. Sequel of the story of Misargyrus 45. The difficulty of forming confederacies 50. On lying 53. Misargyrus' account of his companions in the Fleet 58. Presumption of modern criticism censured. Ancient poetry necessarily obscure. Examples from Horace 62. Misargyrus' account of his companions concluded 67. On the trades of London 69. Idle hope 74. Apology for neglecting officious advice 81. Incitement to enterprise and emulation. Some account of the admirable Crichton 84. Folly of false pretences to importance. A journey in a stagecoach 85. Study, composition, and converse equally necessary to intellectual accomplishment 92. Criticism on the Pastorals of Virgil 95. Apology for apparent plagiarism. Sources of literary variety 99. Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded 102. Infelicities of retirement to men of business 107. Different opinions equally plausible 108. On the uncertainty of human things 111. The pleasures and advantages of industry 115. The itch of writing universal 119. The folly of creating artificial wants 120. The miseries of life 126. Solitude not eligible 128. Men differently employed unjustly censured by each other 131. Singularities censured 137. Writers not a useless generation 138. Their happiness and infelicity THE IDLER. 1. The Idler's character. 2. Invitation to correspondents. 3. Idler's reason for writing. 4. Charities and hospitals. 5. Proposal for a female army. 6. Lady's performance on horseback. 7. Scheme for news-writers. 8. Plan of military discipline. 9. Progress of idleness. 10. Political credulity. 11. Discourses on the weather. 12. Marriages, why advertised. 13. The imaginary housewife. 14. Robbery of time. 15. Treacle's complaint of his wife. 16. Drugget's retirement. 17. Expedients of idlers. 18. Drugget vindicated. 19. Whirler's character. 20. Capture of Louisbourg. 21. Linger's history of listlessness. 22. Imprisonment of debtors. 23. Uncertainty of friendship. 24. Man does not always think. 25. New actors on the stage. 26. Betty Broom's history. 27. Power of habits. 28. Wedding-day. Grocer's wife. Chairman. 29. Betty Broom's history continued. 30. Corruption of news-writers. 31. Disguises of idleness. Sober's character. 32. On Sleep. 33. Journal of a fellow of a college. 34. Punch and conversation compared. 35. Auction-hunter described and ridiculed. 36. The terrific diction ridiculed. 37. Useful things easy of attainment. 38. Cruelty shown to debtors in prison. 39. The various uses of the bracelet. 40. The art of advertising exemplified. 41. Serious reflections on the death of a friend. 42. Perdita's complaint of her father. 43. Monitions on the flight of time. 44. The use of memory considered.