HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
THE GIFT OF

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

May 16,1930

NOTE

THIS Issue is founded on the Edition published by Sherwood, Gilbert &

Piper in 1826.

First published by Methuen & Co. in 1907

:
LONDON.

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME II.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND VOLUME, BER-

NARD BLACKMANTLE TO THE PUBLIC

ODE, CONGRATULATORY AND ADVISITORY, TO

BERNARD BLACKMANTLE, ESQ. ON THE COM-

PLETION OF HIS FIRST VOLUME OF THE

SPY

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CYTHEREAN BEAUTIES

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LADIES OF DISTINCTION, "DANS LE PARTERRE

DES IMPURES"

THE WAKE; OR, TEDDY O'RAFFERTY'S LAST AP-

PEARANCE. A Scene in the Holy Land.

THE CYPRIAN'S BALL, OR SKETCHES OF CHARAC-

TERS AT THE VENETIAN CARNIVAL. Scene-

Argyll Rooms.

Blackmantle, Transit, Eglantine, and Crony's Visit to the

Venetian Carnival-Exhibits-Their Characters drawn from

the Life-General Trinket, the M. C.-Crony's singular Anec-

dote of the Great Earl of Chesterfield, and Origin of the De-

bouchettes-The Omissions in the Wilson Memoirs supplied-

Biographical Reminiscences of the Amiable Mrs. Debouchette

-Harriette and her Sisters-Amy-Mary-Fanny-Julia-

Sophia-Charlotte and Louisa-Paphians and their Paramours

-Peers and Plebeians-The Bang Bantam-London Leda-

Spanish Nun-Sparrow Hawk-Golden Pippin-White Crow

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-Brazen Bellona-Edgeware Diana-Water Lily-White Doe

-Comic Muse-Quean of the Dansysettes-Vestina the Titan

-The Red Rose-Moss Rose and Cabbage Rose-The Doldrum

-Stars of Erin---Wren of Paradise-Queen of the Amazons-

Old Pomona-Venus Mendicant---Venus Callypiga-Goddess

of the Golden Locks--Mocking Bird-New Perdita-Napoleon

Venus-Red Swan-Black Swan-Blue-eyed Luna-Tartar

Sultana-The Bit of Rue-Brompton Ceres-Celestina Con-

way-Lucy Bertram-Water Wagtail-Tops and Bottoms-

The Pretenders-The Old Story-Lady of the Priory-Little

White Mouse-Queen of Trumps-Giovanni the Syren, with

Real Names annexed-Original Portraits and Anecdotes of the

Dukes of M— and D, Marquisses H- and W,

Earls W-, F, and C--, Lords P—, А—, М—,

and N, Honourables Bc, L-s, and F-s - General

Trinket-Colonel Caxon-Messrs. H-b-h, R, D,

and B-, and other Innumerables

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAUGHTER; OR, MR. PUNCH

IN ALL HIS GLORY.

Thoughts on the Philosophy of Laughter-Bernard Black-

mantle in Search of a Wife-First Visit to the Marigold

Family-Sketches of the Alderman, his Lady, and Daughter

-Anecdote of John Liston, and the Citizen's Dinner Party-

Of the Immortal Mr. Punch-Some Account of the Great

Actor-A Street Scene, sketched from the Life-The Wooden

Drama-The True Sublime.

THE WESTMINSTER SCHOLAR.

Reminiscences of former Times-Lamentations of Old Crony

-Ancient Sports and Sprees-Modern Improvements-Hints

to Builders and Buyers-Some Account of the School and its

Worthies-Recollections of old Schoolfellows-Sketches of

Character-the Living and the Dead

ON FEASTERS AND FEASTING.

On the Attachment of the Moderns to Good Eating and

Drinking-Its Consequences and Operation upon Society-

Different Description of Dinner Parties-Royal-Noble-Par-

liamentary-Clerical-Methodistical--Charitable-Theatrical

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-Legal-Parochial-Literary-Commercial and Civil Gour-

mands-Sketches at a Side-table, by Bernard Blackmantle 86