Serial inconsistency, 262.
Slips of the press, 259.
Slips of the telegraph, 261.
BOUTS RIMÉS, 88,

Bogart's Impromptu, 89.
Reversed rhyming ends, 90.

CENTO, the, 73.

Biblical cento, 76.

Cento from Pope, 76.
Life, 75.

Mosaic poetry, 73.

Return of Israel, the, 77.

CHRONOGRAMS, 57.

CHURCHYARD LITERATURE, 564.
Advertising notices, 583.
Antithesis extraordinary, 606.
Bathos, 600.
Brevity, 607.

CHURCHYARD Literature,-—

Cento, Page 601.
Earth to earth, 612.
Epitaph, historical, 578.
on a chemist, 609,
dog, Byron's, 614.
printer, 607.
transcendental, 600.
Epitaphs, aboriginal, 602.
acrostical, 601.
African, 602.

biographical, 578.

curious and puzzling, 596.
eulogistic, apt, appropriate,

570.
Greek, 603.

Hibernian, 602.
laudatory, 608.

miscellaneous, 610.

moralizing and admonitory,

581.

on eminent men, 564.

on infants and children, 575.
self-written, 580.

unique and ludicrous, 583.
Mortuary puns, 591.

Parallels without a parallel, 600.

CONCATENATION, OR CHAIN VERSE,
85.

Lasphrise's novelties, 85.
Ringing Song, 87.

To Death, 86.

Truth, 86.

Trying skying, 87.

CONFORMITY OF SENSE TO SOUND, 554.

Articulate imitation of inarticu-

late sounds, 554.

Imitation of difficulty and ease,

555.

time and motion, 554.

CURIOUS BOOKS, 720.

Book-amateurs, 722.

Most curious book in the world,
722.

CURIOUS BOOKS,-

Odd titles of old books, Page 720.

Silver book, 722.

CUSTOMS, SINGULAR, 477.

Abyssinian beefsteaks, 478.
Beautiful superstition, 477.
Foundations of Druidical tem-
ples, 478.

Hair in seals, 481.

High life in the 15th century,
480.

Lion-catching in South Africa,
479.

Making noses, 479.

Matrimonial advertisement,

481.

Memento mori, 477.

Ostiak regard for boars, 478.
Scorning the church, 481.
Strange fondness for beauty,477.

ECCLESIASTICE, 143.

Excessive civility, 143.
Bascom, eloquence of, 145.
Clerical blunders, 148.
Lord Bishop, the, 146.
Origin of texts, 147.

Preachers of Cromwell's time,

147.

Protestant excommunication,

149.

Proving an alibi, 148.
Sermon on malt, 144.
Short sermons, 143.
Whitefield and the sailors, 149.

ECHO VERSE, 281.

Acoustics, extraordinary facts
in, 289.

Bonaparte and echo, 286.
Critic's excuse, 287.

Echo answering, 287.

and the lover, 284.

on woman, 285.

Echoes, remarkable, 288.
Gospel echo, 283.

ECHO VERSE,-

London before the Restoration,
Page 282.
Pasquinade, 283.

Queen Elizabeth, 282.
Song by Addison, 283.
Synod of Dort, 287.

EMBLEMATIC POETRY, 92.
Altar inscription, 96.
Cross, the, 94.

Crucifixion, curious piece of
antiquity on, 95.
Cypher, ingenious, 96.

ssay to Miss Catharine Jay, 97.
Hindu triplet, 93.

Oxford joke, 96.
Rhomboidal dirge, 94

Typographical, 96.

Wine-glass, the, 93.

ENGLISH WORDS AND FORMS OF

EXPRESSION, 182.

Compound epithets, 211.

Dictionary English, 182.
Disraelian English, 184.
Eccentric etymologies, 195.
Excise, 189.

Forlorn hope, 193.
Influence of names, 209.
I say, 186.

Its, 185.

No love lost, etc., 193.
Not Americanisms, 191.
Nouns of multitude, 184.
Odd changes of signification,

205.

Our vernacular in Chaucer's
time, 211.

Path-ology, 186.

Pontiff, 190.

Pronunciation of ough, 186.
Quiz, 194.

Rough, 190.

Sources of the language, 183.
Tennyson's English, 194.

ENGLISH WORDS AND FORMS OF

EXPRESSION,

That, Page 185.

That mine adversary, 195.
Ye for the, 185.

EPIGRAMS, 515.

Affinities, 524.

Apollo, in return for a sketch
of, 525.

Author, to a living, 518.
Bed, to our, 517.

Blades of the shears, 523.
Bonnets, 521.

Butler's monument, 518.
Campbell's album verse, 521.
Clock, the, 525.

Commissary Goldie's brains,

519.

Compliment, overdrawn, 518.
Crier who could not cry, 524.
Dentist, definition of, 522.
Determination, a funny, 526.
Double vision utilized, 527.
Dum vivimus, vivamus, 516.
D.D., on a certain, 521.
Eternity, 518.

Eve and the apple, 523.
Fell, 520.

Fiddler, on a bad, 521.

Fool and poet, 516.

Fools, abundance of, 527.

Friend, to Dr. Robert, 516.
Friend, to a capricious, 519.
Friend in distress, 522.

German tourist, suggested by a,

518.

Giving and taking, 519.

Goodenough, 523.

Hog vs. Bacon, 522.

Hot corn, 521.

Impersonal, 524.

Invisible, 524.

Lady who married a footman,
521.

Late repentance, 517.

EPIGRAMS,-

Law, after going to, Page 526.
Lawyer, on an ill-read, 520.
Lover to his mistress, with a

mirror, 519.

Marriage à la mode, 526.
Marriage of Webb & Gould, 526.
Martial's, on Epigrams, 515.
Masculine, 525.

Medical advice, 522.
Mendax, 520.

Midas and modern statesmen,

515.

Molly Aston, to, 516.

One good turn deserves another,
520.

One ignorant and arrogant, on,

516.

Pale lady with red-nosed hus-
band, 517.

Parson and butcher, 525.
Portmanteau, clergyman's, loss
of, 518.

Queen Bess on Drake's ship,
524.

Queen, the frugal, 519.
Quid pro quo, 527.
Reception, a warm, 522.
Reflection, a, 523.

Rogers on Ward's speeches, 526.
Same jawbone, 526.

Selvaggi's distich to Milton,
517.

Amplification, by Dryden,
517.

Simplicity, prudent, 522.

Sleep, inscription on a statue of,

516.

Snow, that melted on a lady's
breast, 517.

Songsters, bad, 520.

Terminer sans oyer, 527.

To, 519.

Wellington's nose, 520.

What might have been, 523.

EPIGRAMS,-

Widows, Page 525.
Woman,-contra, 527.

pro, 527.

Woman's will, 520.
World, the, 527.

EQUIVOQUE, 64.

Age of French actresses, 71.
Double-faced creed, 66.
Fatal double meaning, 68.
Handwriting on the wall, 71.
Houses of Stuart and Hanover,
68.

Ingenious subterfuge, 65.
Love-letter, 65.

Loyalty or Jacobinism, 69.
Neat evasion, 70.

New Regime, 68.

Patriotic toast, 70.

Revolutionary verses, 67.

Richelieu's letter to the French

ambassador, 64.

Triple platform, 61.

FACETIE, 482.

Association of ideas, 491.
Brevity, 484.

False friend, a, 488.

Gasconade and hoaxing, 489.
Jack Robinson, 492.
Jests of Hierocles, 482.
Mathews and the silver spoon,
489.

FABRICATIONS,-

Description of the Saviour's

person, Page 269.
Franklin's parable, 275.
Hoax on Walter Scott, 269.
Ireland's forgeries, 276.

Literary sell, 271.
Moon hoax, 270.

Mrs. Hemans's forgeries, 271.
Sheridan's Greek, 273.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS FROM UN-
FAMILIAR SOURCES, 556.

FANCIES OF FACT, THE, 406.
Acrolites, 443.

Alligators swallowing stones,

418.

America's discoverers, fate of,
445.

Amount of gold in the world,

423.

Antipathies, 471.

Army of women, 446.

Auditoriums of last century,
409.

Back action, 408.

Beer-casks, capacious, 425.
Bills for strange services, 407.
Black hole at Calcutta, 427.
Broken heart, a, 467.
Chick in the egg, 416.
Cloth-manufacture, celerity of,

421.

Coincidences, singular, 412.
Colors, diversity of, 442.
Composition in dreams, 455.
Cross, true form of the, 409.
Crown of England, 446.
Crude value vs. industrial value,
422.

Devonshire superstition, 475.
Diameter to circumference,
ratio of, 431.

Difference between English
poets, 426.

Indian and his tamea snake,
417.

Innate appetite, 417.

Kaleidoscope, changes of, 441.
Law logic, 407.

Lock, wonderful, 421,
Longevity, instances of remark-
able, 449.
Marriage vow, 455.
Mathematical prodigies, 432.
Means of recognition, 454.
Melrose by sunlight, 408.
Memory extraordinary, 433.
Minute mechanism, 430.
Need of Providence, 434.
Noah's ark and the Great Eas-
tern, 442.
Number nine, 441.

seven, 436.

three, 440,

Opium and East Indian hemp,
461.

Painters, blunders of, 429.
Perils of precocity, 427.
Presidents, facts about the, 445.
Pithy prayer, 408.

Quantity and value, 422,
Reciprocal conversion, 407.
Romans, immense wealth of the,
424.

Romantic highwayman, 476.
Salt as a luxury, 428.
Self-immolation, 434.

Sensation and intelligence after
decapitation, 469.
Sheep, habits of, 418.

Taste, singular change of, 429.
Walking blindfolded, 473.

Wine at two millions a bottle,
425.

Wounds of Julius Caesar, 406.
FLASHES OF REPARTEE, 495.
HIBERNIANA, 252.

HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 782.
American monarchy, 786.
Amy Robsart, 808.
Annie Laurie, 804.
Biter bit, 818.
Blucher, 794.

Contemporary criticism, 798.
Discovery of America, 803.
Empire (the) is peace, 794.
First blood of the Revolution,
782.

Flight of Eugenie, 789.
French tricolor, 788.

Great events from little causes,
800.

History and fiction, 797.
Jefferson on Marie Antoinette,
794.

Joan of Arc, 807.

Last night of the Girondists,