Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
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CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME
CHAPTER I.
The Metropolitan
Established—Gabrielle—Notice by
Campbell—Remarks on Misuses of the Press—Last letter
from Pringle—Sir William
Ousely—Literary Union Club—Death of Mrs.
Siddons—Prince Czartoryski—Lord
Torrington—Russian Espionage—Hogg, the Ettrick
Shepherd
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CHAPTER II.
Irving the Preacher—Barnes of the Times—James
Murray—Fearn—Letter from Pierce
Egan—Death of Scott—Dr.
Evans—The Countess Guiccioli—The Metropolitan sold—London Bridge—False Alarm at the Home
Office—North Wales—Publish the History of
Wines—Professor Wilson—Scotch Whisky
Drinking—Lockhart
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CHAPTER III.
Melancholy Tale of a Lady—Visit to Bath—Adventures
There—Election Doings—Roebuck—General
Palmer—Rev. Mr. Liddiard—Rev. Mr.
Jay—Local Remarks—Death of Captain Ashe,
and of Thelwall—Peter Borthwick and His
Avatar in Somersetshire
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CHAPTER IV.
Literature at Bath—South
Wales—Tintern—Ragland—Usk—Conjuring and Astrology—Farleigh
Castle—Charlecombe—Sundials
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CHAPTER V.
Lansdowne Tower—Beckford—Gems of Art—Mansion in
Lansdowne Crescent —Dwarf Porter—Introduction—Noble Collection of
Books—The Ayeen Ackbery of Shah Aulum of Delhi—Vathek and its Origin—The Three
Episodes—Conversations—Fonthill—Hannah
Lightfoot’s History
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CHAPTER VI.
London—Visit to Campbell—Change upon the
Poet—His Funeral—Visit to Staffordshire—Duties
there—Lichfield—The Close—Local Operations —The
Anson Family—Principal Individuals—Election
Doings—Success of the Town Party—Lord Alfred Paget
Returned—Character of Sir Robert Peel—Ham—Ascot
College—Grace Dieu—Monastery of La Trappe—Sir C.
Wolseley—Life of William
IV.—Shenstone’s
Leasowes—Hagley—The Spanish Cloak—Wolverhampton—Skill of our
Mechanics —Reminiscences of Character in Lichfield—Placed on the Consular
List—Dr. Lord
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CHAPTER VII.
The Examiner—Death of Lord
Holland—Lady Holland and
Campbell—Reflections—Visit Staffordshire
again—Election Contest—Marquis of
Anglesey—Sir George Anson—The English Journal—Works on Cornwall and
Lancashire—Painful Remembrances—The Nameless Grave—Lady
Cork—Earl Grey—Correspondence with
Lord Althorpe—The Smuggler—Sir C.
Morgan—Croker and Lady
Morgan—Clare the Poet—Pamphlet in Support
of Lord Palmerston relative to Turkey in 1840—Singular Extract
from
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CHAPTER VIII.
Theodore Hook—Horace
Twiss—Lady Blessington—Lord
Dillon—Velasco—Moir of
Musselburg—Love of the
Country—Thiers—Reviewing—Modern Tendency in
Literature—William Holmes—Proposed History of the
Duchy of Cornwall—Major-General Anson—Sir G.
Magrath—
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Nelson—The
Parks—Southey’s
Decease—Conway of Dublin—Designed Naval
Work—Remarks on French
Invasion—Wordsworth—Martin the
Artist—Books—Wine Committee of the House of
Commons—Rogers—English and French Women—Camp
field Hastings—Breathing a Bookseller—National Conduct in Danger—New
Missile
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CHAPTER IX.
Literary Peculiarities—Tricks upon Authors—Modern
Reading—Newspaper Proprietaries—Clubs—Love of
Notoriety—Sir T. N. Talfourd—The
London Magazine—Lord Brougham and Works for the
Poorer Classes—Penny Magazine—Profligate
Writing—Douglas Jerrold
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CHAPTER X.
Modern Tendencies—John Wilson
Croker—Departure of Old Acquaintances—Feelings in
Consequences—A Happy Man—Reflections—Changes and
Improvements—Geographical Discoveries—Increase of Population and General
Advance of the Times—New Inventions—Increased Revenue and Trade—Great
Names—State of Literature—The Drama—Music—Changes in
Dress—General Retrospect—Conclusion
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