Bentley's Miscellany

BENTLEY'S

MISCELL ANY.

AMERICAN EDITION.

VOL. IV.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY JEMIMA M. MASON,

(LATE LEWER)

CORNER BROADWAY AND PINE STREET.

1839.

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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

JACK SHEPPARD, by W. Harrison Ainsworth, Pages 1. 109. 221. 325. 429. 543

How to Feed a Lion, by Joyce Jocund,

23
The Crayon Papers, by Washington Irving,

24, 159

The Samphire Gatherer's Story, by A. H. Plunkett,

33

Adventures of the Cannon

Family, by the author of " The Bee-hive," 37

Old Morgan at Panama,

45

by G. E. Inman,
The Conqueror's Grandsire,

271

No Silver Spoon, by Thomas Haynes Bayly,

46

To a Lady Singing,

50

Retiring from Business,

65

The Withered Rose,

380
The Dead Bird,
by J. A.Wade,

395
To Julia,

462
To Alura,

475
Farewell Sonnet,

597
The Veterans of Chelsea Hospital, by the author of “The Subaltern,” 51, 450
Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight, by A. Elder.

66. 253, 368

Adventures of a Maintop-crosstree-man, by Olinthus Jenkinson, Barrister-

at-Law,

73

The Blind Girl and her Mother,

78

Rambles among the Rivers,

79, 151, 296

by Charles Maekay,

Ancient and Modern Mohocks,

357

A Lay of St. Dunstan,

88

Calebs in search of a Cenotaph, by Thomas Ingoldsby,

353
Some account of a new Play,

639

Colin Clink, by Charles Hooton,

96, 206. 414.528.623

To a Young Girl, by M. T. H.

108

The Old Elm, by J. N. M'Jilton,

140

The Dog Hospital of Paris,

141

Chronicles of the Place Vendôme,

by Toby Allspy,

381

Vincent Eden, or the Oxonian, by Quip,

172. 341. 546

Recollections of the Alhambra, 7 by the Author of

Legends of the Lochs and Glens, communicated by the Author of “ The

The Hatchment, by Teutha,

286

The Spalpeen,

288. 396

Those sweet Days! those happy Days! by P. M'Teague,

574

The Moonbeam,

614

National Songs, by Mrs. Gore,

295

London by Moonlight, by Camilla Toulmin,

303

Character and Conduct of Louis the

Sixteenth, by George Hogarth, 305

Baron Von Dullbrainz, by William Jerdan,

316

Captain Jack, by a Colonist,

322

Mathews, John Kemble, and Mustapha the Cat,

350

The First Farewell,

352

The Grave; from the German of Rosegarten,

The Toledo Rapier, by R. B. Peake,

463, 584

Moral Economy of large Towns, by Dr. W. Taylor,

Page 476. 575

The Reaper and the Flowers, by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow,

482

The Patron King, by Mrs. Trollope,

483

The Pyrenean Hunter, by the Hon. James Erskine Murray,

496

The Abbot's Oak, by Dalton,

508

Remarkable Suicides, by Dr. Millingen,

516

Prospectus of a New Joint Stock Suicide Company.

540

Sonnet on the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, by Edward Herbert, 542

Katerina, the Dwarf of the Jungfernstieg,

561

Poetry,

583

Lines on a Spot where it is intended to build a Church,

598

Prospectus of an intended Course of Lectures on the Philosophy of Hum.

bug, by Professor von Bibundtücker,

599

The Inquest, by Lieut. Johns,

603

The City of the Doge, or Letters from Venice, by the author of " A Sum-

mer in Andalusia,"

615

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Wood's Bedroom,

Page 1

Jack Sheppard, in company with Edgeworth Bess, escaping from Clerken.
well Prison,

22
Audacity of Jack Sheppard,

109
Jack Sheppard visits his Mother in Bedlam,

133
Jonathan Wild throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard down the Well-Hole, 221
Jack Sheppard escaping from the Condemned Hold,

236
Jack Sheppard tricking Shotbolt the Gaoler,

325
Mr. Matthews as Caleb Pipkin, in “The May Queen,” by W. Greatbach, 352
The Portrait of Jack Sheppard,

429
The Patron King—" Exquisitely beautiful!"—by A. Hervieu,

492

Jack Sheppard's Escapes :-

No. I. - The Castle. The Red Room. Door of the Red-Room. A

Door between the Red Room and the Chapel,

543

No. II.-Door going into the Chapel. Door leading out of the Chapel.

First Door between the Chapel and the Leads. Second Door in

the same passage,

546

No. 111.—Lower Leads The Highest Leads, and the Leads of the

JACK SHEPPARD, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,

BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH

Epoch the Third-1724.

Chapter I. The Return.

Chapter III. Jack Sheppard's quarrel

Chapter II. The Burglary at Dollis

with Jonathan Wild.

Hill.

Chapter IV. Jack Sheppard's escape

from the New Prison, Clerkenwell.

THE SAMPHIRE GATHERER'S STORY,

BY A. H. PLUNKETT

ADVENTURES OF THE CANNON FAMILY,

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BEE-HIVE.

OLD MORGAN AT PANAMA,

BY G. E. INMAN

NO SILVER SPOON,

BY THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY

TO A LADY SINGING,

BY J. A. WADE

THE VETERANS OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL,

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SUBALTERN”

Chapter III. Proving that Jack himself can run rusty at times, and gains nothing

by it.

Chapter IV. Containing some account of other perils than war which accompany

a soldier's life, and showing how a man may establish a quiet claim of admis.

sion into Chelsea Hospital.

RETIRING FROM BUSINESS,

BY J. A. WADE

TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT-ST. NICHOLAS-

LEGEND OF WULFHERE,

BY A. ELDER

ADVENTURES OF A MAINTOP-CROSS-TREE MAN, A NAVAL RO-

MANCE, BY OLINTHUS JENKINSON, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

THE BLIND GIRL TO HER MOTHER,

RAMBLES AMONG THE RIVERS. NO. IV.- THE THAMES AND ITS

TRIBUTARIES,

BY CHARLES MACKAY

No. IV. Approach to Richmond.-The grave of Thomson.-Wit among the Tomb-

stones.-Richmond Palace.-The Battle of the Gnats.- View from Richmond Hill.

Song by Malet.-Gay, the poet.- Traditions of Ham House.-Eel-pie Island.-

The Poetical Sawyer.--Anecdote of Kean.

A LAY OF ST. DUNSTAN-THE GOLDEN LEGEND, NO. III.

Chapter XII. Briefly details a slight love skirmish between Sammy and Miss Sower-

soft, which took place before Colin, while that youth was supposed to be asleep, and

also illustrates the manner in which old maids sometimes endeavour to procure

themselves husbands.-('olin's employment at the lodge. He becomes involved

in a dilemma, which threatens unheard-of consequences.

Chapter XIII. Demonstrates, in the case of Miss Sowersoft and Mr. Samuel Pale-

thorpe, the folly of people being too curious about the truth, in matters better left

in the dark. Colin is subjected to a strict examination, in which the judge, in-

stead of the culprit, is convicted. Colin's punishment.

TO A YOUNG GIRL,

BY MRS. TORRE HOLME

108

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