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Prefaces Dedication; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to ‘Volume the Second’; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the First Edition of the Second Series; Preface to the Ninth Edition; Preface to the Eleventh Edition.

First Series Libraries; The Bibliomania; Literary Journals; Recovery of Manuscripts; Sketches of Criticism; The Persecuted Learned; Poverty of the Learned; Imprisonment of the Learned; Amusements of the Learned; Portraits of Authors; Destruction of Books; Some Notices of Lost Works; Quodlibets, or Scholastic Disquisitions; Fame Contemned; The Six Follies of Science; Imitators; Cicero’s Puns; Prefaces; The Ancients and Moderns; Some Ingenious Thoughts; Early Printing; Errata; Patrons; Poets, Philosophers, and Artists, Made by Accident; Inequalities of Genius; Conception and Expression; Geographical Diction; Legends; The Port-Royal Society; The Progress of Old Age in New Studies; Spanish Poetry; Saint Evremond; Men of Genius Deficient in Conversation; Vida; The Scuderies; De La Rochefoucault; Prior’s Hans Carvel; The Student in the Metropolis; The Talmud; Rabbinical Stories; On the Custom of Saluting After Sneezing; Bonaventure de Periers; Grotius; Noblemen Turned Critics; Literary Impostures; Cardinal Richelieu; Aristotle and Plato; Abelard and Eloisa; Physiognomy; Characters Described by Musical Notes; Milton; Origin of Newspapers; Trials and Proofs of Guilt in Superstitious Ages; Inquisition; Singularities Observed by Various Nations in their Repasts; Monarchs; Of the Titles of Illustrious, Highness, and Excellence; Titles of Sovereigns; Royal Divinities; Dethroned Monarchs; Feudal Customs; Joan of Arc; Gaming; The Arabic Chronicle; Metempsychosis; Spanish Etiquette; The Goths and Huns; The Vicars of Bray; Douglas; Critical History of Poverty; Solomon and Sheba; Hell; The Absent Man; Wax-Work; Pasquin and Marforio; Female Beauty and Ornaments; Modern Platonism; Anecdotes of Fashion; A Senate of Jesuits; The Lover’s Heart; The History of Gloves; Relics of Saints; Perpetual Lamps of the Ancients; Natural Productions Resembling Artificial Compositions; The Poetical Garland of Julia; Tragic Actors; Jocular Preachers; Masterly Imitators; Edward the Fourth; Elizabeth; The Chinese Language; Medical Music; Minute Writing; Numerical Figures; English Astrologers; Alchymy; Titles of Books; Literary Follies; Literary Controversy; Literary Blunders; A Literary Wife; Dedications; Philosophical Descriptive Poems; Pamphlets; Little Books; A Catholic’s Refutation; The Good Advice of an Old Literary Sinner; Mysteries, Moralities, Farces, and Sotties; Love and Folly, an Ancient Morality; Religious Nouvelettes; “Critical Sagacity,” and “Happy Conjecture;” or, Bentley’s Milton; A Jansenist Dictionary; Manuscripts and Books; The Turkish Spy; Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare; Ben Jonson, Feltham, and Randolph; Ariosto and Tasso; Venice; Bayle; Cervantes; Magliabechi; Abridgers; Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity; Literary Dutch; The Productions of the Mind Not Seizable by Creditors; Critics; Anecdotes of Authors Censured; Virginity; A Glance Into the French Academy; Poetical and Grammatical Deaths; Scarron; Peter Corneille; Poets; Romances; The Astrea; Poets Laureat; Angelo Politian; Original Letter of Queen Elizabeth; Anne Bullen; James I.; General Monk and His Wife; Philip and Mary; Charles the First; Duke of Buckingham; The Death of Charles IX.; Royal Promotions; Nobility; Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations; Singularities of War; Fire, and the Origin of Fireworks; The Bible Prohibited and Improved; Origin of the Materials of Writing; Anecdotes of European Manners; The Early Drama; The Marriage of the Arts; A Contrivance in Dramatic Dialogue; The Comedy of a Madman!; Anecdotes of Solitude; Literary Friendships; Anecdotes of Abstraction of Mind; Richardson; Theological Style; Influence of Names; The Jews of York; The Sovereignty of the Seas; On the Custom of Kissing Hands; Popes; Literary Composition; Poetical Imitations and Similarities; Explanation of the Fac-Simile; Literary Fashions; The Pantomimical Characters; Extempore Comedies; Massinger, Milton, and the Italian Theatre; Songs of Trades, or Songs for the People; Introducers of Exotic Flowers, Fruits, &c.; Usurers of the Seventeenth Century; Chidiock Titchbourne; Elizabeth and her Parliament; Anecdotes of Prince Henry, the Son of James I., when a Child; The Diary of a Master of the Ceremonies; Diaries—Moral, Historical, and Critical; Licensers of the Press; Of Anagrams and Echo Verses; Orthography of Proper Names; Names of Our Streets; Secret History of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford; Ancient Cookery and Cooks; Ancient and Modern Saturnalia; Reliquiæ Gethinianæ; Robinson Crusoe; Catholic and Protestant Dramas; The History of the Theatre During its Suppression; Drinking-Customs in England; Literary Anecdotes; Condemned Poets; Acajou and Zirphile; Tom O’ Bedlams; Introduction of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate; Charles the First’s Love of the Fine Arts; The Secret History of Charles I. and his Queen Henrietta; The Minister—The Cardinal Duke of Richelieu; The Minister—Duke of Buckingham, Lord Admiral, Lord General, &c. &c. &c.; Felton, the Political Assassin; Johnson’s Hints for the Life of Pope.

Second Series Modern Literature—Bayle’s Critical Dictionary; Characteristics of Bayle; Cicero Viewed as a Collector; The History of the Caraccis; An English Academy of Literature; Quotation; The Origin of Dante’s Inferno; Of a History of Events Which Have not Happened; Of False Political Reports; Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts; Parodies; Anecdotes of the Fairfax Family; Medicine and Morals; Psalm-Singing; On the Ridiculous Titles Assumed by the Italian Academies; On the Hero of Hudibras; Butler Vindicated; Shenstone’s Schoolmistress; Ben Jonson on Translation; The Loves of “The Lady Arabella”; Domestic History of Sir Edward Coke; Of Coke’s Style, and His Conduct; Secret History of Authors who have Ruined their Booksellers; Local Descriptions; Masques; Of Des Maizeaux, and the Secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts; History of New Words; The Philosophy of Proverbs; Confusion of Words; Political Nicknames; The Domestic Life of a Poet—Shenstone Vindicated; Secret History of the Building of Blenheim; Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh; An Authentic Narrative of the Last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh; Literary Unions; Of a Biography Painted; Cause and Pretext; Political Forgeries and Fictions; Expression of Suppressed Opinion; Autographs; The History of Writing-Masters; The Italian Historians; Of Palaces Built by Ministers; “Taxation no Tyranny”; The Book of Death; History of the Skeleton of Death; The Rival Biographers of Heylin; Of Lenglet du Fresnoy; The Dictionary of Trevoux; Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry; “Political Religionism”; Toleration; Apology for the Parisian Massacre; Prediction; Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy; On Puck the Commentator; Literary Forgeries; Of Literary Filchers; Of Lord Bacon at Home; Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth; James the First, as a Father and a Husband; The Man of One Book; A Bibliognoste; Secret History of an Elective Monarchy; Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country; Royal Proclamations; True Sources of Secret History; Literary Residences; Whether Allowable to Ruin Oneself?; Discoveries of Secluded Men; Sentimental Biography; Literary Parallels; The Pearl Bibles, and Six Thousand Errata; View of a Particular Period of the State of Religion in Our Civil Wars; Buckingham’s Political Coquetry with the Puritans; Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions Against the High Sheriff’s Oath; Secret History of Charles I. and his First Parliaments; The Rump; Life and Habits of a Literary Antiquary.

‘Lost’ Articles The Republic of Letters; Tartarian Libraries; Criticism; On the Phrase—“The Law and the Prophets”;Friar Bacon; Descartes and Harvey; Taste; On the Notes Variorum; On the Editions of the Classics, in Usum Delphini; Books of Love and Devotion; Saints Carrying their Heads in their Hands; Arabic Proverbs; The Fathers of the Church; Severe Criticism; The Belles Lettres; On Teaching the Classics; The Art of Criticism; Metaphors; Gibbon; Martin Luther and Calvin; Tertullian; The Scaligers; Matthew Paris; The Athenian Tribunal for Dramatic Composition; The Florence Professor; Guy Patin; The Plinies; Innovation; De Thou; On The Adjective “Pretty”; Samuel Purchas; A Visionary’s Book; Scripture Expressions Derived from Customs; Noah and Saturn; Translation; Virgil; Mutual Persecution; Religious Enmity; Dispensations for Marriage; English Ladies; Spanish Monks; Protestants; Transubstantiation; America; Enchanted Tapestry; The Great and Little Turk; The Pouliats and The Pouliches; The Thirteen Cantons; Charles the Fifth; The Athenians; The Italians; Pope Sixtus the Fifth; The Body of Cæsar; Patriotic Malevolence; Slavery; Historian; Cromwell; Charles the First; “King of England, France, &c.”; William the Conqueror; Parr and Jenkins; Singular Memories; “A Heavy Heart”; On the Fair Sex Having No Souls; and On Old Women; Adam Not the First Man; Curious Automatons; Locusts; Origins of Several Valuable Discoveries; Animals Imitate Language and Action; Anatomists; Monks; Pious Frauds; Chinese Physicians; Ætna and Vesuvius; Roman Roads; Light Summer Showers Forming Burning Mirrors; Bleeding and Evacuation, Two Remedies for Love; Infectious Diseases; Babylon, Thebes, and Nineveh; Amber-gris; The Promises of the Fair Written on the Sea Sands; A Traveller’s Singularities; Genealogy;French and Spaniards; Attic Pleasantries; The Mother Tongues; The Latin Tongue; The English Language; The Dutch and German Languages; Character of the French, the Spanish, and the Italian Languages; The French Language; Language; The Living Language; An Account of a Curious Philological Book; Arabic; The Hebrew; Of the Samaritan, Chaldaic, Syriac, Ethiopian, Persian, Armenian, Tartarian, and Chinese Languages; On the Use of the Pagan Mythology in Poetry; On the Poetry of Baron Haller; A Desire to Regain his Native Country; The Poem of Haller Versified; Literary Projects; Milton; Grammarians; Anecdotes from Manuscripts; John Boyle, Earl of Corke and Orrery; Magical Superstitions; The Four Perfect Women!; Monastic Institutions; Adventurers; Written Characters; Hieroglyphicks of the Egyptians; Religious Government, when Despotic, Impolitical; The Lake of Alba; France and England; Duels; Imaginations and Antipathies; Ingenious Pieces of Mechanism; Painting; Some Ancient Wonders Explained by Moderns;A Crystal Summer-House; Man Not a Fish nor Bird; Alps; Account of a Singular Atrabilarian or Hypochondriac; Dutchess of Richmond; The Fatal Letter; Haller; Ode on the Death of Marianne.

About the Author A Memoir of the Late Isaac D’Israeli; On the Life and Writings of Mr. Disraeli, by His Son.

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Editor’s Notes An Afterword; And a Postscriptum; Bibliographical Notes; Colophon.