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POETICAL INGENUITIES

AND ECCENTRICITIES.

Post 8vo, cloth limp, 2s. 6d. per volume.

THE MAYFAIR

LIBRARY.

THE NEW REPUBLIC. By W. H. MAllock.

THE NEW PAUL AND VIRGINIA. By W. H. MALLOCK.

THE TRUE HISTORY OF JOSHUA DAVIDSON. By E. LYNN LINTON.

OLD STORIES RE-TOLD. BY WALTER Thornbury.

PUNIANA. By the Hon. HUGH ROWLEY.

MORE PUNIANA. By the Hon. HUGH ROWLEY.

THOREAU: HIS LIFE AND AIMS. By H. A. PAGE.

BY STREAM AND SEA. By WILLIAM Senior.

JEUX D'ESPRIT. Collected and Edited by HENRY S. Leigh.
GASTRONOMY AS A FINE ART. By Brillat-Savarin.

THE MUSES OF MAYFAIR. Edited by H. CHOLMONdeley Pennell.
PUCK ON PEGASUS. By H. CHOLMONdeley Pennell.

ORIGINAL PLAYS by W. S. GILBERT. FIRST SERIES. ContainingThe Wicked World, Pygmalion and Galatea, Charity, The Princess, The Palace of Truth, Trial by Jury.

ORIGINAL PLAYS by W. S. GILBERT. SECOND SERIES. Containing -Broken Hearts, Engaged, Sweethearts, Dan'l Druce, Gretchen, Tom Cobb, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance. CAROLS OF COCKAYNE. By HENRY S. LEIGH.

LITERARY FRIVOLITIES, FANCIES, FOLLIES, AND FROLICS. By W. T. DOBSON.

By JACOB LARWOOD.

PENCIL AND PALETTE. By ROBERT Kempt.
THE BOOK OF CLERICAL ANECDOTES.
THE SPEECHES OF CHARLES DICKENS.
THE CUPBOARD PAPERS. By FIN-BEC.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES. Selected by W. Davenport ADAMS.
MELANCHOLY ANATOMISED: a Popular Abridgment of "Burton's
Anatomy of Melancholy."

THE AGONY COLUMN OF "THE TIMES," FROM 1800 TO 1870.
Edited by ALICE CLAY.

PASTIMES AND PLAYERS. BY ROBERT MACGREGOR.

CURIOSITIES OF CRITICISM. By HENRY J. JENNINGS.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF HANDWRITING. By DoN FELIX DE SALAMANCA.

LATTER-DAY LYRICS. Edited by W. DAVENPORT ADAMS.

BALZAC'S COMÉDIE HUMAINE AND ITS AUTHOR. With Translations by H. H. WALKER.

LEAVES FROM A NATURALIST'S NOTE-BOOK. By ANDREW WILSON, F.R.S.E.

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.

WENDELL HOLMES. Illustrated by J. G. THOMSON.

**Other Volumes are in preparation.

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY, W.

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HE favourable reception of "Literary Frivolities" by the Press has led to the preparation of this work as a Sequel, in which the only sin so far charged against the "Frivolities' that of omission-will be found fully atoned for. Those curious in regard to the historical and literary accounts of several of the various phases of composition exemplified in this work, will find these fully enough noticed in "Literary Frivolities," in which none of the examples were strictly original, and had been gathered from many outlying corners of the world of literature. In the present work, however, will be found a number of pieces which have not hitherto been "glorified in type," and these have been furnished by various literary gentlemen, among whom may be named Professor

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