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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Author's Preface
1. Letter from a rural correfpondent-Pleafures of the
country-Mr. Bickerstaff's account of himself
Genealogy of the Staffs, and how the race was
improved -
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11. Mr. Bickerftaff's account of the Club at the Trumpet
and its characters-Abuses of Speech-Swearers,
Hum-drums, and tittle-tattlers -
III. Mr. Bickerstaff's youthful reminifcences-His first
grief-His firft love-Enlarges on the tender paffion
in general-Its allegorical history
Iv. Mr. Bickerstaff is confulted by an unfortunate lover
-His advice and confeffion of his own experience
v. Mr. Bickerstaff's dream of his betrothed-Anticipa-
tion of evil more haraffing than the reality
VI. Maria declares her tenderness for Mr. Bickerstaff
VII. Maria's vifit to Mr. Bickerstaff, and their difcourfe
VIII. Mr. Bickerstaff further dwells upon the tender fubject
and relates fome pathetic ftories
IX. Mr. Bickerstaff affumes the office of a public Cenfor-
Its nature among the Romans-Its ufe-and Mr.
Bickerftaff's mode of difcharging its duties
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5
13
22
29
35
40
44
x. Mr. Bickerstaff receives a deputation from the Country
-A cafe of precedence
42X562
47
55
62
CHAP.
XI. Mr.Bickerstaff obtains the aid of Pacolet, a good genius,
in the difcharge of his Cenforial duties
XII. Pacolet gives an account of himself and his adventures
-Gamefters-
PAGE
66
70
75
80
XIII. Pacolet continued-Duellifts and the Purgatory of
the murdered
XIV. Pacolet's account of the Genii-Shades of Confcience
and Honour-Genuis of Credit
xv. A lover's reafon for fuccefs, and a lady's reafon for the
choice of a husband-Pacolet employed in a delicate
million
86
XVI. Pacolet vanishes-Characters of a Rake and a Coquette 90
XVII. Mr. Bickerstaff vifits the family of an early friend Scene of domeftic felicity
XVIII. The fcene of felicity clouded -
XIX. Mr. Bickerstaff introduces (as betrothed) his half-
fifter, Jenny Diftaff, who speaks for herself-The
Empire of Beauty
xx. Jenny Diftaff's history-False friends
å mo
93
98
102
- 107
XXI. Jenny Diftaff continued-Characters at Epfom
XXII. Jenny Diftaff continued-Love and Matrimony-
The Fox-hunter's Speech
XXII. Jenny Diftaff continued-Duelling — Whisperer's without business, and Laughers without occafion
XXIV. Jenny Diftaff continued-Mr. Bickerftaff's advice
to married people-Jenny's wedding dinner
xxv. Sifter Jenny's matrimonial difference and reconciliation
-The Dappers
xxvI. Mr. Bickerstaff counfels Jenny how to fecure happiness
in the married ftate
XXVII. Sifter Jenny appears in her own chariot, and incurs
Mr. Bickerftaff's disapproval—On Marriage and
the customary ceremonies-Impertinence of wags-
Jenny aud Tranquillus
XXVIII. Sifter Jenny anfwers the letter of Almeira, in the intereft of her fex-And exits -
XXIX. Mr. Bickerstaff's opinion on the means of female im-
provement, mental and perfonal
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143
149
153
xxx. Mr. Bickerstaff thinks the faults of the fair fex chiefly
owing to the falfe manner in which they are
addreffed by men-His difcoveries by means of his ring 157
xxxi. Mr. Bickerstaff introduces his three Nephews-Their characters and his manner of difpofing of them
XXXII. Entertains his three Nephews and a lady
XXXIII. An example of judicious Education-Character of
Samuel Bickerstaff and his family
163 166
- 169
XXXIV. Effects of a paffion for gay and fhowy drefs-Method
taken with Margery Bickerstaff to keep her from
marrying
XXXV. Mr. Bickerstaff pronounces all worthless men dead in
reafon
XXXVI. Mr. Bickerstaff's Court of Judicature-Firft fitting,
on the dead in reafon
XXXVII. Court of Judicature continued-On the hooped
Petticoat
xxxvIII Mr. Bickerstaff finds it expedient to alter his tactics
and wink at offenders, but expects hush-money for
the breach of his Sumptuary Laws, and in confidera-
tion of his powers of divination.
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195
xxxix. Mr.Bickerstaff professes phyfic-Quacks and Impoftors
of the time-The Widow and dumb Fortune-teller. 198
XL. Mr. Bickerftaff's extraordinary Cures-On the
affectation of faults and imperfections.
XLI. Mr. Bickerftaff illuftrates the prevalent corruption of
manners and language
XLII. Mr. Bickerstaff's reflections and dream on the ftate
of Great Britain
203
211
215
XLIII. Mr. Bickerstaff a benefactor to his enemies of Grub
Street-Fable of the Owls, the Bats, and the Sun 222
XLIV. Mr. Bickerstaff learns fencing, and his reafons for fo
doing His vindication from the imputation of in-
juring any worthy perfon by his fatire
XLVI. Mr. Bickerftaff gives his opinion of the practice of
praife, with exceptions, of libellers and ill-natured
jefters
- 233
XLVII. Mr. Bickerstaff gives his opinion on the fubject of
Pride, and adduces fome whimsical inftances of it-
Pernicious effects of Vanity, Pride, and Ambition - 238
XLVIII. Mr. Bickerstaff on growing old becomingly, with an
account of a fantastic paffion of two old ladies, and Sam.
Trufty's visit to them
XLIX. Mr. Bickerstaff received at the Theatre with extra-
ordinary civility
L. Difadvantages of fuddenly acquired wealth
244
249
- 253
LI. Mr. Bickerstaff purchases a Ticket in the Lottery - 256
LII. Mr. Bickerftaff fups in company with two characters remarkable for impudence and abfurdity
LIII. Mr. Bickerftaff's adventures on a journey to Land's End moralifed
LIV. Mr. Bickerstaff makes his Will-Its tenor
Lv. Mr. Bickerstaff removes his Mafk, and Exits
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
260
- 263 - 267
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS,
FROM DESIGNS BY
THOMAS STOTHARD, HENRY SINGLETON, HENRY THOMPSON, P. J. DE LOUTHERBERG, R.A., W. M. CRAIG,
City Widow consulting a Dumb Fortune-teller Henry Singleton
Mrs. Barry the Actress, at Bickerstaff's Funeral Thomas Stothard