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Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

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30396

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1. 1.BOOKS AND AUTHORS:
2. 2.Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches — EDINBURGH: WILLIAM P. NIMMO. — CONTENTS — NOTE. — BOOKS AND AUTHORS. — CURIOUS FACTS AND CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES. — THE FINDING OF JOHN EVELYN'S MS. DIARY AT WOTTON. 1 — FAMILIES OF LITERARY MEN. — THE BLUE-STOCKING CLUB. — DR. JOHNSON AND HANNAH MORE — MISS MITFORD'S FAREWELL TO THREE MILE CROSS. — SMOLLETT'S "HUGH STRAP." — COLLINS'S POEMS. — CAPTAIN MORRIS'S SONGS. — LITERARY DINNERS. — POPULARITY OF THE PICKWICK PAPERS. — SWIFT'S DISAPPOINTMENT. — LEIGH HUNT AND THOMAS CARLYLE. — COWPER'S POEMS. — HEARNE'S LOVE OF ALE. — SHERIDAN'S WIT. — SMOLLETT'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. — MAGNA CHARTA RECOVERED. — FOX AND GIBBON. — DR. JOHNSON'S PRIDE. — LORD BYRON'S "CORSAIR." — BOOKSELLERS IN LITTLE BRITAIN. — RECONCILING THE FATHERS. — DR. PARR AND SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. — SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S HUMOUR. — WRITINGS OF LOPE DE VEGA. — POPULARITY OF LOPE DE VEGA. — SWIFT'S LOVES. — COLERIDGE'S "WATCHMAN." — IRELAND'S SHAKSPEARE FORGERIES. — HOOLE, THE TRANSLATOR OF TASSO. THE GHOST PUZZLED. — LORD BYRON'S VANITY — LORD BYRON'S APOLOGY. — FINE FLOURISHES. — MATHEMATICAL SAILORS. — LEWIS'S "MONK." — THOMSON'S RECITATIONS. — GOLDSMITH'S "SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER." — SILENCE NOT ALWAYS WISDOM. — DR. CHALMERS IN LONDON. — ROMILLY AND BROUGHAM. — PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS. — DEATH OF SIR CHARLES BELL. — CLASSIC PUN. — POETRY OF THE SEA. — "FELON LITERATURE." — DEATH BED REVELATIONS. — STAMMERING WIT. — ORIGIN OF BOTTLED ALE. — BAD'S THE BEST. — LUDICROUS ESTIMATE OF MR. CANNING. — THE AUTHORSHIP OF "WAVERLEY." — QUID PRO QUO. — HOPE'S "ANASTASIUS." — SMART REPARTEE. — COLTON'S "LACON." — BUNYAN'S COPY OF "THE BOOK OF MARTYRS." — LITERARY LOCALITIES. — CREED OF LORD BOLINGBROKE. — BUNYAN'S PREACHING. — HONE'S "EVERY-DAY BOOK." — BUNYAN'S ESCAPES. — DROLLERY SPONTANEOUS. — ORIGIN OF COWPER'S "JOHN GILPIN." — HARD FATE OF AUTHORS. — JAMES SMITH, ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF "REJECTED ADDRESSES." — CONTEMPORARY COPYRIGHTS. — MISS BURNEY'S "EVELINA." — EPITAPH ON CHARLES LAMB. — "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG." — CHANCES FOR THE DRAMA. — FULLER'S MEMORY. — LORD HERVEY'S WIT. — ANACREONTIC INVITATION, BY MOORE. — THE POETS IN A PUZZLE. — SALE OF MAGAZINES. — MRS. SOUTHEY. — DEVOTION TO SCIENCE. — DISADVANTAGEOUS CORRECTION. — PATRONAGE OF LITERATURE. — DR. JOHNSON'S WIGS. — SHERIDAN'S "PIZARRO." — DR. JOHNSON IN LONDON. — REGALITY OF GENIUS. — FIELDING'S "TOM JONES." — VOLTAIRE AND FERNEY. — CLEAN HANDS. — MODERATE FLATTERY. — EVERY-DAY LIFE OF JAMES SMITH. — FRENCH-ENGLISH JEU-DE-MOT. — RELICS OF IZAAK WALTON. — PRAISE OF ALE. — DANGEROUS FOOLS. — BULWER'S POMPEIAN DRAWING-ROOM. — STERNE'S SERMONS. — "TOM HILL." — TYCHO BRAHE'S NOSE. — FOOTE'S WOODEN LEG. — RIVAL REMEMBRANCE. — WHO WROTE "JUNIUS'S LETTERS"? — LITERARY COFFEE-HOUSES IN THE LAST CENTURY. — LORD BYRON AND "MY GRANDMOTHER'S REVIEW." — WALPOLE'S WAY TO WIN THEM. — DR. JOHNSON'S CRITICISMS. — GIBBON'S HOUSE, AT LAUSANNE — ORIGIN OF "BOZ." (DICKENS.) — BOSWELL'S "LIFE OF JOHNSON." — PATRONAGE OF AUTHORS. — LEARNING FRENCH. — JOHNSON'S CLUB-ROOM. — DR. CHALMERS'S INDUSTRY. — LATEST OF DR. JOHNSON'S CONTEMPORARIES. 6 — A SNAIL DINNER. — CURRAN'S IMAGINATION. — COWLEY AT CHERTSEY. — A PRETTY COMPLIMENT. — THOMAS DAY, AND HIS MODEL WIFE. — WASHINGTON IRVING AND WILKIE, IN THE ALHAMBRA. — BOLINGBROKE AT BATTERSEA. — RELICS OF MILTON. — WRITING UP THE "TIMES" NEWSPAPER. — RELICS OF THE BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP. — ORIGIN OF "THE EDINBURGH REVIEW." — CLEVER STATESMEN. — THE FIRST MAGAZINE. — MRS. TRIMMER. — BOSWELL'S BEAR-LEADING. — LORD ELIBANK AND DR. JOHNSON — RELICS OF DR. JOHNSON AT LICHFIELD. — COLERIDGE A SOLDIER. — COBBETT'S BOYHOOD. — COLERIDGE AN UNITARIAN PREACHER. — FONTENELLE'S INSENSIBILITY. — PAINS AND TOILS OF AUTHORSHIP. — JOE MILLER AT COURT. — COLLINS' INSANITY. — MOORE'S EPIGRAM ON ABBOTT. — NEGROES AT HOME. — A STRING OF JERROLD'S JOKES. — CONCEITED ALARMS OF DENNIS. — A COMPOSITION WITH CONSCIENCE. — SALE, THE TRANSLATOR OF THE KORAN. — THE LATTER DAYS OF LOVELACE. — PAYMENT IN KIND. — CHATTERTON'S PROFIT AND LOSS RECKONING. — LOCKE'S REBUKE OF THE CARD-PLAYING LORDS. — HAYDN AND THE SHIP CAPTAIN. — HAYDN'S DIPLOMA PIECE AT OXFORD. — ORIGIN OF THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. — THE TWO SHERIDANS. — KILLING NO MURDER. — SENSITIVENESS TO CRITICISM. — BUTLER AND BUCKINGHAM. — THE MERMAID CLUB. — PORSON'S MEMORY. — WYCHERLEY'S WOOING. — A CAROUSE AT BOILEAU'S. — THOMSON'S INDOLENCE. — A LEARNED YOUNG LADY. — A HARD HIT AT POPE. — DRYDEN DRUBBED. — ROGERS AND "JUNIUS." — ALFIERI'S HAIR. — SMOLLETT'S HARD FORTUNES. — JERROLD'S REBUKE TO A RUDE INTRUDER. — AN ODD PRESENT TO SHENSTONE. — WALLER, THE COURTIER-POET. — FOOTNOTES
3. 3.CATALOGUE OF POPULAR AND STANDARD BOOKS — WILLIAM P. NIMMO, EDINBURGH — A SUPERB GIFT-BOOK. — The 'Edina' Burns — A HANDSOME DRAWING-ROOM EDITION OF — THE POEMS AND SONGS
4. 4.ROBERT BURNS.
5. 5.LIBRARY EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS. — FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER.
6. 6.HUGH MILLER'S WORKS. — CHEAP POPULAR EDITIONS, — A New Work by Ascott R. Hope.
7. 7.STORIES OF SCHOOL LIFE.
8. 8.A BOOK ABOUT BOYS.
9. 9.A BOOK ABOUT DOMINIES: — THE PEOPLE'S EDITION OF
10. 10.TYTLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND.
11. 11.LIBRARY EDITION OF STANDARD WORKS,
12. 12.WAYSIDE THOUGHTS OF A PROFESSOR: — BEING A SERIES OF DESULTORY ESSAYS ON EDUCATION.
13. 13.LAST LEAVES: — SKETCHES AND CRITICISMS.
14. 14.FAMILY PRAYERS FOR FIVE WEEKS,
15. 15.THE YOUNG SHETLANDER; — OR, SHADOW OVER THE SUNSHINE: BEING LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS EDMONSTON,
16. 16.THE MECHANIC'S AND STUDENT'S GUIDE — IN THE DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTION OF GENERAL MACHINE GEARING,
17. 17.THE BRAEMAR HIGHLANDS: — Their Tales, Traditions, and History.
18. 18.RANDOM SKETCHES OF BUENOS AYRES.
19. 19.TRIUMPH: — The Christian more than Conqueror. — NIMMO'S 'CARMINE' GIFT-BOOKS. — NEW AND CHEAPER EDITIONS. — ROSES AND HOLLY: — PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. — GEMS OF LITERATURE: ELEGANT, RARE, AND SUGGESTIVE. — THE BOOK OF ELEGANT EXTRACTS. — THE GOLDEN GIFT. A BOOK FOR THE YOUNG.
20. 20.NIMMO'S POPULAR EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE POETS. — UNIFORM WITH
21. 21.NIMMO'S POPULAR EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE POETS.
22. 22.NIMMO'S FAVOURITE GIFT-BOOKS. — COMPLETION OF THE COPYRIGHT EDITION OF
23. 23.WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS. — JAMIESON'S SCOTTISH DICTIONARY.
24. 24.NIMMO'S HANDY BOOKS OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. — OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION. — Popular Works by the Author of 'Heaven our Home.'
25. 25.HEAVEN OUR HOME.
26. 26.HEAVEN OUR HOME,
27. 27.MEET FOR HEAVEN.
28. 28.MEET FOR HEAVEN,
29. 29.LIFE IN HEAVEN.
30. 30.LIFE IN HEAVEN,
31. 31.CHRIST'S TRANSFIGURATION;
32. 32.CHRIST'S TRANSFIGURATION,
33. 33.NIMMO'S PRESENTATION SERIES OF STANDARD WORKS.
34. 34.NIMMO'S HALF-CROWN REWARD BOOKS.
35. 35.NIMMO'S TWO SHILLING REWARD BOOKS.
36. 36.NIMMO'S EIGHTEENPENNY REWARD BOOKS.
37. 37.NIMMO'S SUNDAY SCHOOL REWARD BOOKS.
38. 38.NIMMO'S ONE SHILLING JUVENILE BOOKS.
39. 39.NIMMO'S SIXPENNY JUVENILE BOOKS.
40. 40.NIMMO'S FOURPENNY JUVENILE BOOKS.
41. 41.NIMMO'S POPULAR RELIGIOUS GIFT-BOOKS.
42. 42.Popular Religious Works. — SUITABLE FOR PRESENTATION.
43. 43.NIMMO'S Series of Commonplace Books.
44. 44.NIMMO'S POCKET TREASURIES. — THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON. — THE LOVES OF ROSE PINK AND SKY BLUE, — STORY OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL.

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