BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. AMERICAN EDITION. VOL. IV. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY JEMIMA M. MASON, (LATE LEWER,) CORNER BROADWAY AND PINE STREET. 1839. CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. How to Feed a Lion, by Joyce Jocund, The Crayon Papers, by Washington Irving, The Samphire Gatherer's Story, by A. H. Plunkett, Adventures of the Cannon Family, by the author of "The Bee-hive,” The Blind Girl and her Mother, Calebs in search of a Cenotaph, Colin Clink, by Charles Hooton, The Old Elm, by J. N. M'Jilton, Chronicles of the Place Vendôme, ILLUSTRATIONS. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Wood's Bedroom, Page 1 Jack Sheppard, in company with Edgeworth Bess, escaping from Clerken 22 Audacity of Jack Sheppard, 109 Jack Sheppard visits his Mother in Bedlam, 133 Jonathan Wild throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard down the Well-Hole, 221 . 236 Jack Sheppard tricking Shotbolt the Gaoler, 325 Mr. Matthews as Caleb Pipkin, in "The May Queen," by W. Greatbach, 352 429 The Patron King" Exquisitely beautiful!" by A. Hervieu, No. I.-The Castle. The Red Room. Door of the Red-Room. A 543 No. II.—Door going into the Chapel. Door leading out of the Chapel. 546 No. III.-Lower Leads. The Highest Leads, and the Leads of the Chapter III. Proving that Jack himself can run rusty at times, and gains nothing Chapter IV. Containing some account of other perils than war which accompany a soldier's life, and showing how a man may establish a quiet claim of admis No. IV. Approach to Richmond.-The grave of Thomson.-Wit among the Tomb- stones.-Richmond Palace.-The Battle of the Gnats.-View from Richmond Hill. Song by Mallet.-Gay, the poet.-Traditions of Ham House.-Eel-pie Island.- Chapter XII. Briefly details a slight love-skirmish between Sammy and Miss Sower- soft, which took place before Colin, while that youth was supposed to be asleep, and also illustrates the manner in which old maids sometimes endeavour to procure themselves husbands.-Colin's employment at the lodge. in a dilemma, which threatens unheard-of consequences. Chapter XIII. Demonstrates, in the case of Miss Sowersoft and Mr. Samuel Pale- thorpe, the folly of people being too curious about the truth, in matters better left in the dark. Colin is subjected to a strict examination, in which the judge, in- stead of the culprit, is convicted. Colin's punishment. |