قراءة كتاب Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches
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Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS:
Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches
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EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. NIMMO.
EDINBURGH: MURRAY AND GIBB,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.
CONTENTS
| Ale, Bishop Still's Praise of | 83 |
| A Learned Young Lady | 149 |
| Alfieri's Hair | 153 |
| Authors, Hard Fate of | 59 |
| Authorship, Pains and Toils of | 125 |
| Bad's the Best—Canning's Criticism | 50 |
| "Beggar's Opera," Origin of the | 140 |
| Bell, Death of Sir Charles | 46 |
| Blue-Stocking Club, the | 10 |
| Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap, Relics of | 115 |
| Boileau's, A Carouse at | 147 |
| Bolingbroke at Battersea | 112 |
| Bolingbroke, his Creed | 55 |
| Booksellers in Little Britain | 27 |
| Boswell as the "Bear-leader" | 118 |
| Boswell's "Life of Johnson" | 99 |
| "Boz" (Dickens), Origin of the Word | 99 |
| Bottled Ale, Accidental Origin of | 49 |
| Bulwer's Pompeian Drawing-room | 84 |
| Bunyan's Copy of the "Book of Martyrs" | 53 |
| Bunyan's Escapes | 57 |
| Bunyan's Preaching | 56 |
| Burney, Miss, her "Evelina" | 66 |
| Butler and Buckingham | 143 |
| Byron, Lord, his Graceful Apology | 39 |
| Byron's "Corsair" | 26 |
| Byron and "My Grandmother's Review" | 95 |
| Byron's Personal Vanity | 37 |
| Canning, A Ludicrous Estimate of | 50 |