CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

Page
1 Mirrors • • • • 1
2 Etymology of Dunce • • 5
3 Plum Pudding • • • 6
4 Medical Poets • • • 8
5 Taudry Lace • • • ib.
6 The Camel and the Needle • • 9
8 Citoyenne • • • 12
7 Cauda Diaboli • • • ib.
9 Methodist Camp Meetings • • 13
10 Law of the Mozcas • • • 21
11 Inferiority of Women • • 22
12 Steam Engines • • • 23
13 Aristotle • • • • ib.
14 Arrow-headed letters • • 25
15 Three methods of lessening the number of rats ib.
16 Translations • • • 27
17 Hell • • • • 28
18 Transplanting Trees • • • 31
19 St Andrew’s Cross • • • 32
20 Clock-Mill • • • 33
21 Locke • • • • 34
22 Hans Engelbrecht • • • ib.
23 Effect of Music upon animals • • 36
24 Dogs • • • • 38
25 St. Romuald • • • 40
26 Touching for the Evil • • 43
27 The Oak of Marmre • • • 44
28 Invention for the Blind • • 45
29 Words and Symbols • • • 47
30 Stilling the Sea with Oil • • 48
31 An heptastic Vocable • • 49
32 Service for the Prisoners • • 50
33 Mode of ventilating a Town • • 51
34 Melancholy • • • 53
35 Mosquitos • • • 55
36 Coup de soleil • • • 56
37 Anthony Purver • • • 57
38 The Composition of Body in receiving • 58
39 Fr. Domenico Ottomano • • 60
40 Menageries • • • 70
41 Juan de Esquivel Navarro • • ib.
42 The Virgin Mary’s Milk • • 73
43 Omar II • • • • 74
44 Tomb-flies • • • 75
45 Thomas O’Brien Mac Mahon • • 77
46 Solan Geese • • • 79
47 Hole’s Arthur • • • 83
48 Poetical Moods and Tenses • • 85
49 Garden at Banstead • • • 86
50 Foot-racing • • • 88
51 Queen Mary’s Funeral • • 89
52 Bunyan’s Holy War • • 90
53 A Dual Giant • • • ib.
54 Henrietta Maria • • • 91
55 The worst of all Puns • • 93
56 Poem attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh • 94
57 Steel Mirrors for assisting the Sight • 99
58 Classification of Novels • • 101
59 Crocodile • • • • ib.
60 Small Wit • • • 103
61 Grapes in Madagascar • • 104
62 Richard Flecknoe • • • 105
63 Defence of Popery • • • 110
64 The Wafer • • • 113
65 Motteux • • • • 119
66 Public Accommodations • • ib.
67 Catholic Devotion to the Virgin • 123
68 Cupid and Psyche • • • 128
69 Writing Tables • • • 132
70 Lions of Romance • • • 134
71 Cortes • • • • 138
72 Cocoa Cordage • • • 141
73 Odour of Sanctity • • • ib.
74 Mexican Tennis • • • 144
75 Amadis and Esplandian • • 145
76 The Gossamer • • • 146
77 Ships’ Names • • • ib.
78 Stationers in Spain • • • 148
79 Sindbad • • • • 150
80 Nebuchadnezzar • • • 152
81 Omens • • • • 153
82 Munchausen • • • 155
83 Cold Bathing in Fevers • • 157
84 Payment of a Copyer of Books • ib.
85 Animals in Paradise • • 158
86 Glover’s Leonidas • • • 159
87 *[1]The French Decade • • 161
88 Labrador • • • • 164
89 *Ride and Tie • • • 187
90 *Jeremy Taylor • • • 188
91 *Criticism • • • 189
92 *Public Instruction • • ib.
93 Tractors • • • • 191
94 Blackguard • • • 192
95 Frith the Martyr • • • 193
96 Tostatus • • • • 195
97 *Picturesque words • • 197
98 *Météorolithes • • • 198
99 Meditation and Contemplation • 200
100 Parchment Book-covers • • 203
101 The Carpenter Bird • • 204
102 *Toleration • • • 205
103 *War • • • • 206
104 Bishop Kenn • • • ib.
105 *Parodies • • • 208
106 *M. Dupuis • • • 209
107 Hereticks of the early ages • • 211
108 The Needle • • • 213
109 *Origin of the Worship of Hymen • 215
110 *Egotism • • • 216
111 *Cap of Liberty • • • 217
112 Ablactation,—as our old Dictionaries call it 218
113 *Bulls • • • • 219
114 *Wise Ingnorance • • • 221
115 Change of Climate • • • 222
116 Gift of Tongues • • • 226
117 *Rouge • • • • 227
118 *Επεα πτερόεντα, i.e. Hasty Words • 228
119 *Motives and Impulses • • ib.
120 *Inward Blindness • • 231
121 *The Vices of Slaves no excuse for Slavery 232
122 *Circulation of the Blood • • 234
123 *Perituræ parcere chartæ • • 236
124 *To have and to be • • • 237
125 *Party Passion • • • 238
126 *Goodness of Heart indispensible to a man of genius 239
127 *Milton and Ben Jonson • • ib.
128 *Statistics • • • 240
129 *Magnanimity • • • ib.
130 Christianus Franciscus Paullinus • 245
131 Sindbad • • • 248
132 Mostansir Billah • • • 249
133 Bishop Berkely • • • 251
134 Government of Norcia • • 251
135 Early English Metre • • 253
136 Troilus and Credseide • • 255
137 Miraculous Combustion of wood without ashes, and oil without smoke 256
138 Two Modes of Atheism • • 262
139 Sea-fires • • • • 263
140 Ground-fires • • • 266
141 Dey • • • • 269
142 The Night Mare • • • 270
143 Sects in Egypt • • • 271
144 The Squid-hound • • • 273
145 The Stigmata • • • 274
146 Tree of Life • • • 276
147 Tentzelius • • • 282
148 Mayor. Merino • • • 287
149 He shall set the Sheep on his right hand, but the Goats on his left. Matt. xxv. 33. 289
150 Dogs at Court • • • 292
151 Feasts • • • • 294
152 Goldsmith • • • 296
153 Aqua Vitæ • • • ib.
154 Torrid Zone • • • 298
155 *Negroes and Narcissuses • • 304
156 * An anecdote • • • ib.
157 *The Pharos at Alexandria • • ib.
158 *Sense and Common Sense • • 305
159 *Toleration • • • 308
160 *Hint for a new Species of History • 313
161 Rabbinical Legend • • • 322
162 St. Vitus • • 325
163 Burial Grounds • • • 328
164 Image Worship • • • 330
165 Effect of Domestication upon the Skin and Tendons of Animals 331
166 Filtering Apparatus • • • 332
167 Palestine • • • 333
168 Earth Bathing • • • 335

* The articles marked thus are by a different writer.

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