Sacra Poesis--Geraldine--Critiques--John and Tom Hughes--Donnington Priory--Little Providences 105-110
Origin of "Proverbial Philosophy"--M'Neile and Stebbing--N.P. Willis--Harrison Ainsworth--Hatchard's--Moxon's--Cassell's--A Prophecy--My Father's Letter and Gift--Sixty Times--Politeuphuia--Parallels--Mr. Orton's Volume--American Laudations, and English--As to _per contra_--Copyright Question--Wedding Gifts--An Elizabethan Author--Seldom Seen, and Few Adventures 111-133
A Modern Pyramid--The Vision--A Fearful Flight--Imagination--The Crystal Cubes and Mud Bricks--Sonnets and Sonneteering--Mackay and Shakespeare's 134-144
An Author's Mind--Prefatory Ramble--Addled Eggs--The Mental Cathedral--Probabilities--Job's Trials 145-152
The Crock of Gold--Dramatised in Boston and London--Origin of the Story--The Twins--Heart: drawn from Living Models--Critiques from Ollier and St. John 153-158
Æsop Smith--Mudie's--Rabelaisian Hints--The Early Gallop--Alfred, or Albert Order--Fables 159-162
Stephan Langton--King Alfred's Poems--The Silent Pool--Hard Reading for the History--The Book still in Print--Curious Metrical Translation of Anglo-Saxon Poetry--The Jubilee at Wantage and at Liverpool 163-169
Shakespeare Commemoration--Lord Carlisle--Lord Houghton, Leigh Court--Stratford Church--The Baptismal Font--An American Autograph Hunter--Sonnet 170-172
Translations and Pamphlets--Homer, _lib._ A.--Tennyson's Vivien--Classical Versions--Hymn for All Nations--Protestant Ballads--Fifteen Pamphlets 173-179
Paterfamilias's Diary--Courier Pierre--Devil's Bridge--Major Hely--Guernsey--The Haro that saved Castle Cornet--Night-Sail in the Race of Alderney--Durham's Statue of Prince Albert--Isle of Man--King Orry--Walter Montgomery--Bishop Powys 180-189
Never Give Up, at Dr. Kirkland's--Harvest Hymns--Gordon Ballads--The Good Earl--John Brown--My Brother--Memory--Evil not Endless 190-199
Protestant Ballads--"So help me, God!"--Nun's Appeal, &c. 200-203
Plays--Alfred--Raleigh--Washington--Twelve Scenes--Family Records 204-207
Antiquariana--Lockhart and my Coin Article in the _Quarterly_--Farley Finds--Mummy Wheat and Faraday 208-212
Honours--_Times'_ Letter--A Peerage and Baronetcy--Prussian Medal and Chevalier Bunsen's Letter--Authorship a Rank by Itself--Many Inventions and Literary Discoveries, as Punch, Humpty Dumpty, 666, &c. 213-220