CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



CHAPTEE I 



Modern Philosophy — Sk Robert Walpole — A Railway Director 

 — Coach Passengers — A Birmingham Man — The St. Leger 

 — The Post-Horse Duty — A Strange Bet — Self-appro- 

 bation — A Warwickshire Grazier (Culloden) — • A Lace 

 Buyer — Female Accomplishment — R. W. Elliston— Don 

 Juan — A Dashing Military Officer — A Pleasant Tete-a-tete 

 — The Retreat to Corunna — General Lefevre Desnouettes 

 — Sergeant Bunn, of the 18th Hussars — The Emperor 

 Napoleon I. — A Cartel — A Sad Finale — A Good Character 



CHAPTER II 



Characters of all Grades — The Great Lord Chief — Discontent 

 — The Road to Improvement — Manchester Cobourg — 

 Lawrence Sterne — Liverpool Umpire — A Scene at Finchley 

 — One of the Rudiments of the Art — A Particular Gentle- 

 man — The Two Holyhead Mails — An Inquest — Doleful 

 Interview — An Anomaly in Law — The Ship-Doctor — 

 Morning Call — Portrait — Reception — Great Horse — 

 Thirsty Soul— A Brother— The Bay of Naples— Wounded 

 Officer — An Oj)eration — Trifling Error — Magnanimity and 

 Forbearance — Messmates — Tobias Smollett — Hearty Buck 

 — St. Albans — An Easter Sunday — The Abbey— Devotion 

 — A Family Picture — St. Augustin — History — -Purity of 

 Election — Gallantry — A Funeral — Stratf ord-on- Avon — 

 Woodstock — Wallingford — The Miller — Strange Courtesy 

 — Impromptu — The Passing Bell — The Chm'chyard . . 22 



CHAPTER III 



King Charles — An Indiscreet Act — A New Country Proprietor 

 - — The Cheltenham Coach — Scions of the Nobility — An 



