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ОглавлениеTHE FINDING OF JOHN EVELYN’S MS. DIARY AT WOTTON.
MISS MITFORD’S FAREWELL TO THREE MILE CROSS.
POPULARITY OF THE PICKWICK PAPERS.
LEIGH HUNT AND THOMAS CARLYLE.
SMOLLETT’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
BOOKSELLERS IN LITTLE BRITAIN.
DR. PARR AND SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH’S HUMOUR.
IRELAND’S SHAKSPEARE FORGERIES.
HOOLE, THE TRANSLATOR OF TASSO. THE GHOST PUZZLED.
GOLDSMITH’S “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”
PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS.
LUDICROUS ESTIMATE OF MR. CANNING.
BUNYAN’S COPY OF “THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.”
ORIGIN OF COWPER’S “JOHN GILPIN.”
JAMES SMITH, ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF “REJECTED ADDRESSES.”
ANACREONTIC INVITATION, BY MOORE.
EVERY-DAY LIFE OF JAMES SMITH.
BULWER’S POMPEIAN DRAWING-ROOM.
LITERARY COFFEE-HOUSES IN THE LAST CENTURY.
LORD BYRON AND “MY GRANDMOTHER’S REVIEW.”
LATEST OF DR. JOHNSON’S CONTEMPORARIES. [5]
THOMAS DAY, AND HIS MODEL WIFE.
WASHINGTON IRVING AND WILKIE, IN THE ALHAMBRA.
WRITING UP THE “TIMES” NEWSPAPER.
RELICS OF THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.
ORIGIN OF “THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.”
RELICS OF DR. JOHNSON AT LICHFIELD.
COLERIDGE AN UNITARIAN PREACHER.
PAINS AND TOILS OF AUTHORSHIP.
A COMPOSITION WITH CONSCIENCE.
SALE, THE TRANSLATOR OF THE KORAN.
CHATTERTON’S PROFIT AND LOSS RECKONING.
LOCKE’S REBUKE OF THE CARD-PLAYING LORDS.
HAYDN’S DIPLOMA PIECE AT OXFORD.
JERROLD’S REBUKE TO A RUDE INTRUDER.
DISINTERESTEDNESS OF ENGLISH PAINTERS.
LOST CHANCE OF A NATIONAL GALLERY.
REYNOLDS’S PORTRAIT OF LORD HEATHFIELD.
ORIGINALS OF HOGARTH’S MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE.
“COLUMBUS AND THE EGG” ANTICIPATED.
HAYDON’S FIRST SIGHT OF THE ELGIN MARBLES.
FANATICISM THE DESTROYER OF ART.
THE PICTURES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
FOUNDATION OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL OF PAINTING IN ENGLAND.
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE’S BOYHOOD.
HARLOW’S TRIAL OF QUEEN KATHERINE.
COPLEY’S “DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM”
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S CORREGGIO.
MICHAEL ANGELO IN BOYHOOD AND OLD AGE.
HOGARTH’S “MARCH TO FINCHLEY.”
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
RAPHAEL’S CARTOON OF THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS.
ORIGIN OF THE BEEF-STEAK CLUB.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S DINNERS.
REYNOLDS’S AND LAWRENCE’S PORTRAITS.
THOMAS SYDNEY COOPER “THE ENGLISH PAUL POTTER.”
HOGARTH’S PICTURES AT VAUXHALL GARDENS.
HAYDON’S “JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.”
THE OLDEST PICTURE IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
JOHN MARTIN ON GLASS PAINTING.
THE LOST PORTRAIT OF PRINCE CHARLES, BY VELASQUEZ.
PORTRAITS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
“BONAPARTE REVIEWING THE CONSULAR GUARD.”
LAWRENCE’S PORTRAIT OF CURRAN.
SIR ROBERT KERR PORTER’S PANORAMA.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S PALETTE.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’ BENEVOLENCE.
ORIGIN OF THE TAPESTRY IN THE OLD HOUSE OF LORDS.
THE CHANDOS PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE.