Serial inconsistency, 262.
Slips of the press, 259.

Slips of the telegraph, 261.

BOUTS RIMÉS, 88,

Bogart's Impromptu, 89.
Reversed rhyming ends, 90.

CENTO, the, 73.

Biblical cento, 76.

Cento from Pope, 76.
Life, 75.

Mosaic poetry, 73.

Return of Israel, the, 77.
CHRONOGRAMS, 57.

CHURCHYARD LITERATURE, 564.
Advertising notices, 583.
Antithesis extraordinary, 606.
Bathos, 600.

Brevity, 607.

CHURCHYARD LITERATURE,-

Cento, Page 601.
Earth to earth, 612.
Epitaph, historical, 578.
on a chemist, 609,
dog, Byron's, 614.
printer, 607.
transcendental, 600.
Epitaphs, aboriginal, 602.
acrostical, 601.
African, 602.

biographical, 578.

curious and puzzling, 596.
eulogistic, apt, appropriate,

570.
Greek, 603.

Hibernian, 602.
laudatory, 608.

miscellaneous, 610.

moralizing and admonitory,
581.

on eminent men, 564.

on infants and children, 575.
self-written, 580.

unique and ludicrous, 583.
Mortuary puns, 591.

Parallels without a parallel, 600.

CONCATENATION, OR CHAIN VERSE,

85.

Lasphrise's novelties, 85.

Ringing Song, 87.

To Death, 86.

Truth, 86.

Trying skying, 87.

CONFORMITY OF SENSE TO SOUND, 554.

Articulate imitation of inarticu-

late sounds, 554.

Imitation of difficulty and ease,

555.

time and motion, 554.

CURIOUS BOOKS, 720.

Book-amateurs, 722.

Most curious book in the world,
722.

ECHO VERSE,—

London before the Restoration,
Page 282.
Pasquinade, 283.

Queen Elizabeth, 282.
Song by Addison, 283.
Synod of Dort, 287.

EMBLEMATIC POETRY, 92.
Altar inscription, 96.
Cross, the, 94.

Crucifixion, curious piece of
antiquity on, 95.
Cypher, ingenious, 96.

ssay to Miss Catharine Jay, 97.
Hindu triplet, 93.

Oxford joke, 96.

Rhomboidal dirge, 94

Typographical, 96.

Wine-glass, the, 93.

ENGLISH WORDS AND FORMS OF

EXPRESSION, 182.

Compound epithets, 211.

Dictionary English, 182.

Disraelian English, 184.
Eccentric etymologies, 195.
Excise, 189.

Forlorn hope, 193.
Influence of names, 209.
I say, 186.

Its, 185.

No love lost, etc., 193.
Not Americanisms, 191.
Nouns of multitude, 184.
Odd changes of signification,

205.

Our vernacular in Chaucer's
time, 211.

Path-ology, 186.

Pontiff, 190.

Pronunciation of ough, 186.
Quiz, 194.

Rough, 190.

Sources of the language, 183.
Tennyson's English, 194.

Compliment, overdrawn, 518.
Crier who could not cry, 524.
Dentist, definition of, 522.
Determination, a funny, 526.
Double vision utilized, 527.
Dum vivimus, vivamus, 516.
D.D., on a certain, 521.
Eternity, 518.

Eve and the apple, 523.
Fell, 520.

Fiddler, on a bad, 521.

Fool and poet, 516.

Fools, abundance of, 527.

Friend, to Dr. Robert, 516.
Friend, to a capricious, 519.
Friend in distress, 522.

German tourist, suggested by a,
518.

Giving and taking, 519.

Goodenough, 523.

Hog vs. Bacon, 522.

EPIGRAMS,-

Widows, Page 525.
Woman,-contra, 527.

pro, 527.

Woman's will, 520.
World, the, 527.

EQUIVOQUE, 64.

Age of French actresses, 71.
Double-faced creed, 66.
Fatal double meaning, 68.
Handwriting on the wall, 71.
Houses of Stuart and Hanover,
68.

Ingenious subterfuge, 65.
Love-letter, 65.

Loyalty or Jacobinism, 69.
Neat evasion, 70.

New Regime, 68.

Patriotic toast, 70.

Revolutionary verses, 67.

Richelieu's letter to the French

ambassador, 64.

Triple platform, 61.

FACETLE, 482.

Association of ideas, 491.
Brevity, 484.

False friend, a, 488.

Gasconade and hoaxing, 489.
Jack Robinson, 492.
Jests of Hierocles, 482.
Mathews and the silver spoon,
489.

Old Nick, 488.

P. and Q., 491.

Relics, 490.

Royal quandary, 490.

Russian jester and his jokes,

492.

Same joke diversified, 486.
Syllogism, 488.

Titles for library-door, 482.

FABRICATIONS, 269.

Ballad literature, 274.

FABRICATIONS,-

Description of the Saviour's

person, Page 269.

Franklin's parable, 275.

Hoax on Walter Scott, 269.
Ireland's forgeries, 276.
Literary sell, 271.

Moon hoax, 270.

Mrs. Hemans's forgeries, 271.
Sheridan's Greek, 273.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS FROM UN-
FAMILIAR SOURCES, 556.

FANCIES OF FACT, THE, 406.
Aerolites, 443.

Alligators swallowing stones,

418.

America's discoverers, fate of,
445.

Amount of gold in the world,

423.

Antipathies, 471.

Army of women, 446.

Auditoriums of last century,

409.

Back action, 408.

Beer-casks, capacious, 425.
Bills for strange services, 407.
Black hole at Calentta, 427.
Broken heart, a, 467.
Chick in the egg, 416.
Cloth-manufacture, celerity of,

421.

Coincidences, singular, 412.
Colors, diversity of, 442.
Composition in dreams, 455.
Cross, true form of the, 409.
Crown of England, 446.
Crude value vs. industrial value,
422.

Devonshire superstition, 475.
Diameter

to circumference,

ratio of, 431.

Difference between English

poets, 426.