Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME
CHAPTER I.
French Bourbonists—Marquis of
S—.—Field Sports—Paris—Morning Parades—The
Marshals of
France—Talma—Duchenois—Anecdote—
Shakespeare—Anglo-French Critic, Potier—Social
Medley—A Dull Scholar—Murder by an Officer—Tragic Scene
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CHAPTER II.
Museum of Monuments—Madame Cottin’s
Tomb—Fêtes des Morts—Police Fracas—The
Concordat—Princess Charlotte—Literary Effort of an
Officer—Duel—Medley of Visitants in Paris—Germans—A Teutonic
Baron—Colonel Hilpert—Military Adventures—The
Guerillas—Alexander of
Russia—Review—Sir Sidney
Smith—King of Prussia—Squib on the
Bourbons—Louis XVIII. and His Library—Zoe
Talon—Wellington’s Royal Dinner—The
Duke in Paris—Little Red Man—Countess of R——
and her Route—Ingratitude of
Courtiers—Talleyrand—Constant—Cuvier
and Langlés—Fine Works in
Printing—Vincennes—Women
au
carcan—Conscience-Stricken
Porter—Robespierre—Du
Roure—Orleans—Baron
Trenck—Madame du Four—Mr.
Huskisson—A Menagerie General—Major
James’ Journal—Funeral Oration of Louis XVIII
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CHAPTER III.
M. Madgett and Criticism—Mentelli, the
Hungarian—Relics—Lacretelle—Sachet—Funeral
of Massena—Caleb Colton—Catalan! in
Paris—Collard—Turlet—Felix
Bodin—Van Praet—Sodre
and the Duke of Wellington—Anecdote of
Napoleon—Massena and
Genoa—Versailles—Madame
Garnarin—Catacombs—The Holy Bottle—Assignat
Forgery—Dieppe and Arques—General Arabin—Return to
London
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CHAPTER IV.
Dr. Wolcot—Dr. Parr—Sir C.
Greville—Hatton, Conversations at—Windham
and Joseph Gerald—The Athanasian Creed—Rev. Mr.
Field—Letter of Parr—Rev. Mr.
Bland—Rev. T. Cormouls—Doctor
Wade, Letters of—Shakespeare’s
Tomb—Parr to Burdett—Girls at
Ragley—Country Assizes, and Disregard of Life—The New
Monthly
Magazine—Colburn—Talfourd—Graham—Campbell—Perry—Du
Bois—Ugo
Foscolo—Canning—Finnerty—New
Literary School—Scene at Foscolo’s—Count
Santa Rosa—Roscoe the Elder—Lady
Holland—Keeping the Peace—Sonnet of Foscolo
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CHAPTER V.
Matthews—Miss
Baillie—Horace Smith—Head of
Cromwell—Thomas Hill—Epitaph on
Hill—James Smith—Blanco
White—Jackson—Miss
Mitford—Hazlitt—John
Scott—Pringle—John Hunt—The Sword
Song—Schlegel—Walter
Scott—Dispute about Shakespeare
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CHAPTER VI.
Cheltenham—Lady Faulkner—Mrs.
Hemans—Manuel de Goristiza—La
Gasca—Belzoni—Letter of Santa
Rosa—Death at Old Navarino—Sir Emerson
Tennant—The Duke of Mantua—Sketches of the Irish
Bar—Sheil—Curran—O’Connell—Wolcot—Anecdotes—Death
of Wolcot—Gifford’s attack on
Wolcot—New Monthly
Poetry—Campbell and
Hazlitt—Anecdotes of
Campbell—Byron—Dallas
and Medwin—Brandt—The Last Man
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CHAPTER VII.
The Annuals—Fluctuation in Taste—Gall and
Spurzeim—Croker in
Dublin—Anecdote of Northcote—Sir Charles
Morgan—Banim the Novellist—John
Dunn Hunter—Tale of the Supernatural—Van
Heeren—William Wallace—Mike
Kelly—Colton at
Kew—Bellamy’s Bible—Vivian
Grey—The Key—Mr.
Warren—Andrews’
Travels—Dundas Cochrane—Pandurrang
Hari—Unknown Writer—London University—Lady
Writers—Count Porro—Letter from
Salamis—Colonel Pisa—Telesforo
Trueba
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CHAPTER VIII.
Brambletye
House—Scott’s Napoleon—Washington Irving—Bishop of
Torento—Shee’s Alasco—John Taylor—Death of Mrs.
Campbell—First Edition of Campbell’s
Poems—Letters of the Poet—Lord
Minto—Moore’s Byron—Calves’ Head Day—Colonel
Jones—Lord Denman—Mrs.
Shelley—Sir James
Mackintosh—Galt—Sir Gore
Ousley—Wise, A. V. Kirwan,
&c.—Quit the New Monthly—Treatment on that
Occasion of Campbell and Self—Thomas Hood—Offer of a
Professorship at Warsaw
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