Men of Letters

Monk Lewis 417

Porson's Eccentricities 425

Parriana: Oddities of Dr. Parr 435

Oddities of John Horne Tooke 444

Mr. Canning's Humour 451

Peter Pindar.—Dr. Wolcot 460

The Author of "Dr. Syntax" 472

Mrs. Radcliffe and the Critics 475

Cool Sir James Mackintosh 478

Eccentricities of Cobbett 481

Heber, the Book-Collector 485

Sir John Soane Lampooned 488

Extraordinary Calculators 490

Charles Lamb's Cottage at Islington 494

Thomas Hood 497

A Witty Archbishop 504

Literary Madmen 508

A Perpetual-Motion Seeker 513

The Romantic Duchess of Newcastle 516

Sources of Laughter 520