《ESSAYS OF ELIA》

The South-Sea House,3

Oxford in the Vacation,12

Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago,20

The Two Races of Men,34

New Year's Eve,40

Mrs.Battle's Opinions on Whist,48

A Chapter on Ears,55

All Fools' Day,61

A Quakers' Meeting,65

The Old and the New Schoolmaster,71

Imperfect Sympathies,80

Witches, and other Night Fears,89

Valentine's Day,96

My Relations,100

Mackery End, in Hertfordshire,107

My First Play,112

Modern Gallantry,117

The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple,132

Grace Before Meat,134

Dream Children; A Reverie,142

Distant Correspondents,146

The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers,152

A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars, in the Metro-polis,160

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig,169

A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of MarriedPeople,177

On Some of the Old Actors,184

On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century,197

On the Acting of Munden,206

NOTES,209

INDEX,371