Chapter II: Appendix

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The South-Sea House 1 342 Oxford in the Vacation 8 345 Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago 14 350 The Two Races of Men 26 355 New Year's Eve 31 358 Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist 37 361 A Chapter on Ears 43 363 All Fools' Day 48 367 A Quaker's Meeting 51 367 The Old and the New Schoolmaster 56 369 Valentine's Day 63 370 Imperfect Sympathies 66 370 Witches, and other Night-Fears 74 372 My Relations 80 373 Mackery End, in Hertfordshire 86 375 Modern Gallantry 90 377 The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple 94 379 Grace Before Meat 104 384 My First Play 110 385 Dream-Children; A Reverie 115 388 Distant Correspondents 118 389 The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers 124 390 A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis 130 392 A Dissertation upon Roast Pig 137 395 A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People 144 397 On Some Old Actors 150 397 On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century 161 399 On the Acting of Munden 168 400

THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA
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Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia 171 402 Blakesmoor in H----shire 174 405 Poor Relations 178 408 Stage Illusion 185 408 To the Shade of Elliston 188 409 Ellistoniana 190 410 Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 195 411 The Old Margate Hoy 201 415 The Convalescent 208 416 Sanity of True Genius 212 416 Captain Jackson 215 416 The Superannuated Man 219 417 The Genteel Style in Writing 226 420 Barbara S---- 230 421 The Tombs in the Abbey 235 423 Amicus Redivivus 237 424 Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney 242 426 Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago 249 428 Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art 256 433 Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age 266 436 The Wedding 271 436 The Child Angel: a Dream 276 437 A Death-Bed 279 437 Old China 281 438 Popular Fallacies-- I. That a Bully is always a Coward 286 440 II. That Ill-gotten Gain never Prospers 287 440 III. That a Man must not Laugh at his own Jest 287 440 IV. That such a One shows his Breeding.--That it is Easy to Perceive he is no Gentleman 288 440 V. That the Poor Copy the Vices of the Rich 288 440 VI. That Enough is as Good as a Feast 290 440 VII. Of Two Disputants, the Warmest is Generally in the Wrong 291 440 VIII. That Verbal Allusions are not Wit, because they will not Bear a Translation 292 440 IX. That the Worst Puns are the Best 292 440 X. That Handsome is that Handsome does 294 441 XI. That We must not look a Gift-horse in the Mouth 296 441 XII. That Home is Home though it is never so Homely 298 442 XIII. That You must Love Me, and Love my Dog 302 442 XIV. That We should Rise with the Lark 305 443 XV. That We should Lie Down with the Lamb 308 443 XVI. That a Sulky Temper is a Misfortune 309 443