METRIC PROSE, 223.

Cowper's letter to Newton, Page

223.

Disraeli's Tale of Alvoy, 224.
Example in Irving's New York,

224.

Involuntary versification in the
scriptures, 228.

[229.

Johnson on involuntary metre,
Kemble and Siddons, 229.
Lincoln's second inaugural, 229.
Nelly's funeral, 225.
Niagara, 227.
Night, 227.

Unintentional rhymes of pro-
sers, 228.

MISQUOTATIONS, 266.

MONOSYLLABLES, 98.

Power of short words, 102.

MOSLEM WISDOM, 508.

Alexandrian Library, the, 510.
Mohammedan logic, 509.
Shrewd decision of Ali, 508.
Turkish expedients, 510.

Wisdom of Ali, 508.

MULTUM IN PARVO, 823.

NAME OF GOD, the, 127.
God in Shakspeare, 128.
Jehovah, 128.
Orthography, 127.

Parsee, Jew, and Christian, 129.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, 375.
Aerial navigation, 382.
Anæsthesia, 383.

Attraction of gravitation, 390.
Auscultation and Percussion,
392.

Boomerang, the, 389.

Circulation of the blood, 382.
Discovery of America, predic-
tions of, 393.

Early invention of rifling, 390.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE Sun,-
Magnetictelegraph,foreshadow-
ings of, Page 375.

Steam-power, first discoveries
of, 378.

Stereoscope, the, 393.

Table-moving and alphabet-
rapping, 391.

ORIGIN OF THINGS FAMILIAR, 331.
All Fools' day, 332.
American flag, 355.
Bottled ale, 343.
Blue stocking, 366.
Brother Jonathan, 356.
Bumper, 340.

Cards, 336.

Cock fighting, 364.
Dollar-mark, 357.

Drinking healths, 346.
Dun, 340.

Earliest newspapers, 372.
Feather in one's cap, 346.
First doctors, 368.

epigram, 371.

forged bank-note, 367.
piano-forte, 367.

prayer in Congress, 370.

printing by steam, 373.

reporters, 371.

telegraphic message, 373.

thanksgiving proclamation,

368.

Flag of England, 365.
Foolscap paper, 366.

Friction matches, 365.
Humbug, 340.

India-rubber, 364.

Kicking the bucket, 340.

La Marseillaise, 350.

Mind your P's and Q's, 331.
News, 372.

Nine tailors make a man, 346.
Old Hundred, 349.

Order of the garter, 345.

Over the left, 339.

ORIGIN OF THINGS FAMILIAR,—

Pasquinades, Page 341.
Postpaid envelopes, 349.
Potato, the, 343.
Royal saying, 340.

Signature of the cross, 348.
Skedaddle, 366.
Stockings, 344.
Sub rosa, 338.

Tarring and feathering, 344.

Turkish crescent, 348.
Turncoat, 364.

Uncle Sam, 357.

Various inventions and cus-

toms, 358.

Viz., 347.

Word Book, 346.

Yankee Doodle, 353.

O. S. AND N. S., 325.

Gregorian calendar, 325.

Results of change in style, 326.

PALINDROMES, 59.

PARALLEL PASSAGES, 640.

Historical similitudes, 679.
Shaksperean Resemblances, 677
Plagiarism of Charles Reade, 677
PARONOMASIA, 155.

Ben, the sailor, 162.
Book-larceny, 164.
Classical puns and mottoes, 172.
Court-fool's pun on Laud, 181.
Dr. Johnson's pun, 160.
Epitaph on an old horse, 165.
Erskine's toast, 160.
Holmes on Achilles, 162.
Grand scheme of emigration, 166
Marionettes, 168.
Miss-nomers, the, 180.
Mottoes of English peerage, 174.
Old joke versified, 161.
Perilous practice of punning, 167
Plaint of the old pauper, 163.
Printer's epitaph, 161.

Swift's Latin puns, 169.
Sydney Smith's pun, 160.
Tom Moore, 161.
To my nose, 163.
Top and bottom, 161.
Unconscious puns, 171.
Vegetable girl, the, 164.
Whiskers vs. razor, 162.
Winter, 160.

Women, 162.
Jeux de Mots, 175.
Anagrammatic, 175.
Iterative, 175.

Bees of the Bible, 179.
Catalectic monody, 177.
Crooked Coincidences, 181.
Fair letter, 176.

Franklin's Re's, 179.
November, 178.

On the death of Kildare, 177.
Schott and Willing, 177.
Swarm of Bees, 179.
Turn to the left, 177.

Write written right, 177.
Spiritual, 175.

PERSIAN POETRY EXCERPTA FROM,

511.

Beauty's prerogative, 511.

Broken hearts, 511.
Caliph and Satan, 513.
Double plot, 512.
Earth an illusion, 511.
Folly for one's self, 512.
Fortune and worth, 511.
From Mirtsa Schaffy, 512.
Generous man, to a, 511.
Heaven an echo of earth, 511.
Impossibility, the, 512.

PERSIAN POETRY,EXCERPTA FROM,-
Moral atmosphere, a, Page 511.
Proud humility, 512.
Sober drunkenness, 512.
Wine-drinker's metaphors, 512.
World's unappreciation, the, 513
PERSONAL SKETCHES AND ANEC-
DOTES, 763.

André Major, 767.

André and Arnold, 768.
Bonaparte, name in Greek, 764.
personal appearance of, 765.
Milton and Napoleon, 764.
opinion of suicide, 765.
Cromwell, Oliver, 776.
Elizabeth, Queen, 774.

Flamsteed, the astronomer, 769.
Franklin's wife, 766.
Lafayette's republicanism, 764.
Luther, 771.

Nelson's sang-froid, 769.
Pope's skull, 779.

PROTOTYPES,-

Original Shylock, Page 705.
Pilgrim's Progress, original of,
710.

Plagiarism, great literary, 715.
Pope's bull against the comet,703
Proverb misascribed to Defoe713
Robinson Crusoe: who wrote it,
712.

Scandinavian skull-cups, 714.
Shakspeare said it first, 699.
Swapping horses, 703.
Trade-unions, 704.
Use of language, 714.
Wandering Jew, 716.
Wooden nutmegs, 703.

PURITAN PECULIARITIES, 150.
Baptismal names, 150.

Connecticut Blue Laws, extracts
from, 153.

Punishments, 151.

Similes, 151.

[152.

Virginia penalties in old times,

PUZZLES, 290.

Bonapartean cypher, 292.
Book of riddles, 299.
Canning's riddle, 294.
Case for the lawyers, 293
Chinese tea-song, 298.
Cowper's riddle, 294.
Curiosities of cipher, 301.
Death and life, 298.

Galileo's logograph, 297.
Newton's riddle, 294.

Number of the beast, 297.

Persian riddles, 298.

Prize enigma, 294.

Prophetic distich, 296.

Quincy's comparison, 295.
Rebus, the, 299.

Bacon motto, 299.
French, 291.

Singular intermarriages, 296.
What is it? 299.

Wilberforce's puzzle, 301.

REASON WHY, Page 310.
Boston, 311.

Cardinal's red hat, 312.

Cutting off with a shilling, 312.

Genealogy, 313.
Huguenots, 311.

Juggler's mystery, 314.

Roast beef of England, 313.
Royal demise, 311.
Sensible quack, 313.
Weathercocks, 312.

Why Germans eat sauer-kraut,
310.

Why Pennsylvania settled, 311.
REFRACTORY RHYMING, 534.
SEXES, THE, 501.

Female society, 505.

Happy woman, character of, 502.
Letter to a Bride, 507.
My Mother, 506.
Parallel of the sexes, 505.
Praise of women, 504.
Wife,-mistress,-lady, 505.

SONNETS, 551,

Ave Maria, 553.
Dyspepsia, 552.

Humility, 553.

In a fashionable church, 551.
Nose, about a, 552.
Proxy saint, the, 552.
Writing a sonnet, 551.
TALL WRITING, 212.

Anatomist to his dulcinea, 221.
Borde's prologue, 215.
Burlesque of Dr. Johnson's
style, 217.

Chemical valentine, 220.
Clear as mud, 218.

Domicile erected by John, 212.
Foote's farrago, 216.

From the Curiosities of Adver-
tising, 213.

From the Curiosities of the
Post-office, 214.

TALL WRITING,-

Indignant letter, Page 219.
Intramural æstivation, 220.
Mad poet, the, 216.
Newspaper eulogy, 218.
Ode to Spring, 221.

Pristine proverbs for precocious
pupils, 222.

Spanish play-bill, 215.
Transcendentalism, definition
of, 212.

TRIUMPHS OF INGENUITY, 395.

Choosing a king, 402.

Discovery of the planet Nep-
tune, 395.

Discovery of Vulcan, 396.
King John and the abbot, 403.
Lesson worth learning, 402.
Stratagem of Columbus, 399.
VALENTINES, 544.

Burns, verses of, 546.
Cardiac effusion, 547.
Colored man's valentine, 549.
Cryptographic correspondence,
544.

Digby to Archabella, 548.
Egyptian serenade, 549.

Lover to his sweetheart, 547.
Macaronic, 548.

Macaulay's valentine, 545.
Moore, verses of, 549.
Strategic love-letter, 544.
Teutonic alliteration, 546.
Written in sympathetic ink,
544.

Petitions, 550.

Maids and widows, the, 550.
Maladroit appeal, 550.
WEATHER-WISDOM, 317.

Davy on weather-omens, 317.
Sheridan's rhyming calendar,

317.

Signs of the weather, 320.
Unlucky days, 324.