List of Contents

Introduction

A Memoir of the Late Isaac D’Israeli.

First Series

  1. Libraries
  2. The Bibliomania
  3. Literary Journals
  4. Recovery of Manuscripts
  5. Sketches of Criticism
  6. The Persecuted Learned
  7. Poverty of the Learned
  8. Imprisonment of the Learned
  9. Amusements of the Learned
  10. Portraits of Authors
  11. Destruction of Books
  12. Some Notices of Lost Works
  13. Quodlibets, or Scholastic Disquisitions;
  14. Fame Contemned
  15. The Six Follies of Science
  16. Imitators
  17. Cicero’s Puns
  18. Prefaces
  19. The Ancients and Moderns
  20. Some Ingenious Thoughts
  21. Early Printing
  22. Errata
  23. Patrons
  24. Poets, Philosophers, and Artists, Made by Accident
  25. Inequalities of Genius
  26. Conception and Expression
  27. Geographical Diction
  28. Legends
  29. The Port-Royal Society
  30. The Progress of Old Age in New Studies
  31. Spanish Poetry
  32. Saint Evremond
  33. Men of Genius Deficient in Conversation
  34. Vida
  35. The Scuderies
  36. De La Rochefoucault
  37. Prior’s Hans Carvel
  38. The Student in the Metropolis
  39. The Talmud
  40. Rabbinical Stories
  41. On the Custom of Saluting After Sneezing
  42. Bonaventure de Periers
  43. Grotius
  44. Noblemen Turned Critics
  45. Literary Impostures
  46. Cardinal Richelieu
  47. Aristotle and Plato
  48. Abelard and Eloisa
  49. Physiognomy
  50. Characters Described by Musical Notes
  51. Milton
  52. Origin of Newspapers
  53. Trials and Proofs of Guilt in Superstitious Ages
  54. Inquisition
  55. Singularities Observed by Various Nations in their Repasts
  56. Monarchs
  57. Of the Titles of Illustrious, Highness, and Excellence
  58. Titles of Sovereigns
  59. Royal Divinities
  60. Dethroned Monarchs
  61. Feudal Customs
  62. Joan of Arc
  63. Gaming
  64. The Arabic Chronicle
  65. Metempsychosis
  66. Spanish Etiquette
  67. The Goths and Huns
  68. The Vicars of Bray
  69. Douglas
  70. Critical History of Poverty
  71. Solomon and Sheba
  72. Hell
  73. The Absent Man
  74. Wax-Work
  75. Pasquin and Marforio
  76. Female Beauty and Ornaments
  77. Modern Platonism
  78. Anecdotes of Fashion
  79. A Senate of Jesuits
  80. The Lover’s Heart
  81. The History of Gloves
  82. Relics of Saints
  83. Perpetual Lamps of the Ancients
  84. Natural Productions Resembling Artificial Compositions
  85. The Poetical Garland of Julia
  86. Tragic Actors
  87. Jocular Preachers
  88. Masterly Imitators
  89. Edward the Fourth
  90. Elizabeth
  91. The Chinese Language
  92. Medical Music
  93. Minute Writing
  94. Numerical Figures
  95. English Astrologers
  96. Alchymy
  97. Titles of Books
  98. Literary Follies
  99. Literary Controversy
  100. Literary Blunders
  101. A Literary Wife
  102. Dedications
  103. Philosophical Descriptive Poems
  104. Pamphlets
  105. Little Books
  106. A Catholic’s Refutation
  107. The Good Advice of an Old Literary Sinner
  108. Mysteries, Moralities, Farces, and Sotties
  109. Love and Folly, an Ancient Morality
  110. Religious Nouvelettes
  111. “Critical Sagacity,” and “Happy Conjecture;” or, Bentley’s Milton
  112. A Jansenist Dictionary
  113. Manuscripts and Books
  114. The Turkish Spy
  115. Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare
  116. Ben Jonson, Feltham, and Randolph
  117. Ariosto and Tasso
  118. Venice
  119. Bayle
  120. Cervantes
  121. Magliabechi
  122. Abridgers
  123. Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity
  124. Literary Dutch
  125. The Productions of the Mind Not Seizable by Creditors
  126. Critics
  127. Anecdotes of Authors Censured
  128. Virginity
  129. A Glance Into the French Academy
  130. Poetical and Grammatical Deaths
  131. Scarron
  132. Peter Corneille
  133. Poets
  134. Romances
  135. The Astrea
  136. Poets Laureat
  137. Angelo Politian
  138. Original Letter of Queen Elizabeth
  139. Anne Bullen
  140. James I.
  141. General Monk and His Wife
  142. Philip and Mary
  143. Charles the First
  144. Duke of Buckingham
  145. The Death of Charles IX.
  146. Royal Promotions
  147. Nobility
  148. Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations
  149. Singularities of War
  150. Origin of Fireworks
  151. Bible Prohibited and Improved
  152. Origin of Writing, the Materials of
  153. Anecdotes of European Manners
  154. Anecdotes of the Early Drama
  155. The Marriage of the Arts
  156. A Contrivance in Dramatic Dialogue
  157. Comedy of a Madman
  158. Anecdotes of Solitude
  159. Literary Friendships
  160. Anecdotes of Abstraction of Mind
  161. Richardson
  162. Theological Style
  163. Influence of Names
  164. The Jews of York
  165. The Sovereignty of the Seas
  166. Historical Notices of the Custom of Kissing Hands
  167. Popes
  168. Literary Compositions
  169. Poetical Imitations and Similarities
  170. Fac-simile in this Work, Explained
  171. Literary Fashions
  172. The Pantomimical Characters
  173. Extempore Comedies
  174. Massinger, Milton, and the Italian Theatre
  175. Songs of Trades, or Songs for the People
  176. Introducers of Exotic Flowers, Fruits, &c.
  177. Usurers of the Seventeenth Century
  178. Chidiock Titchbourne
  179. Elizabeth and her Parliament
  180. Anecdotes of Prince Henry, the Son of James I., when a Child
  181. The Diary of a Master of the Ceremonies
  182. Diaries—Moral, Historical, and Critical
  183. Licensers of the Press
  184. Of Anagrams and Echo Verses
  185. Orthography of Proper Names
  186. Names of our Streets
  187. Secret History of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford
  188. Ancient Cookery and Cooks
  189. Ancient and Modern Saturnalia
  190. Reliquiæ Gethinianæ
  191. Robinson Crusoe
  192. Catholic and Protestant Dramas
  193. The History of the Theatre during its Suppression
  194. Drinking Customs in England
  195. Literary Anecdotes
  196. Condemned Poets
  197. Acajou and Zirphile
  198. Tom O’Bedlams
  199. Introduction of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate
  200. Charles the First’s Love of the Fine Arts
  201. The Secret History of Charles I. and his Queen Henrietta
  202. The Minister—the Cardinal duke of Richelieu
  203. The Minister—Duke of Buckingham, Lord Admiral, Lord General, &c. &c. &c.
  204. Felton, the Political Assassin
  205. Johnson’s Hints for the Life of Pope

Second Series

  1. Modern Literature-Bayle’s Critical Dictionary
  2. Characteristics of Bayle
  3. Cicero Viewed as a Collector
  4. The History of the Caraccis
  5. An English Academy of Literature
  6. Quotation
  7. The Origin of Dante’s Inferno
  8. Of a History of Events which have not Happened
  9. Of False Political Reports
  10. Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts
  11. Parodies
  12. Anecdotes of the Fairfax Family
  13. Medicine and Morals
  14. Psalm Singing
  15. On the Ridiculous Titles Assumed by the Italian Academies
  16. On the Hero of Hudibras; Butler Vindicated
  17. Shenstone’s Schoolmistress
  18. Ben Jonson on Translation
  19. The Loves of “The lady Arabella”
  20. Domestic History of Sir Edward Coke
  21. Of Coke’s Style, and his Conduct
  22. Secret History of Authors who have Ruined their Booksellers
  23. Local Descriptions
  24. Masques
  25. Of des Maizeaux, and the Secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts
  26. History of New Words
  27. The Philosophy of Proverbs
  28. Confusion of Words
  29. Political Nicknames
  30. The Domestic Life of a Poet—Shenstone Vindicated
  31. Secret History of the Building of Blenheim
  32. Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh
  33. An Authentic Narrative of the Last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh
  34. Literary Unions—Secret History of Rawleigh’s History of the World and Vasari’s Lives
  35. Of a Biography Painted
  36. Cause and Pretext
  37. Political Forgeries and Fictions
  38. Expression of Suppressed Opinion
  39. Autographs
  40. The History of Writing-Masters
  41. The Italian Historians
  42. Of Palaces Built by Ministers
  43. “Taxation no Tyranny”
  44. The Book of Death
  45. The History of the Skeleton of Death
  46. The Rival Biographers of Heylin
  47. Of Lenglet du Fresnoy
  48. The Dictionary of Trevoux
  49. Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry
  50. “Political Religionism”
  51. Toleration
  52. Apology for the Parisian Massacre
  53. Prediction
  54. Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy
  55. On Puck the Commentator
  56. Literary Forgeries
  57. Of Literary Filchers
  58. Of Lord Bacon at Home
  59. Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth
  60. James the First, as a Father and a Husband
  61. The Man of One Book
  62. A Bibliognoste
  63. Secret History of an Elective Monarchy—a Political Sketch
  64. Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country
  65. Royal Proclamations
  66. True Sources of Secret History
  67. Literary Residences
  68. Whether Allowable to Ruin Oneself?
  69. Discoveries of Secluded Men
  70. Sentimental Biography
  71. Literary Parallels
  72. The Pearl Bibles and Six Thousand Errata
  73. View of a Particular Period of the State of Religion in our Civil Wars
  74. Of Buckingham’s Political Coquetry with the Puritans
  75. Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions Against the High-Sheriff’s Oath
  76. Secret History of Charles the First, and his First Parliaments
  77. The Rump
  78. Life and Habits of a Literary Antiquary—Oldys and his MSS.