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ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

WASHINGTON IRVING,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

JOHN F. TROW Printer and Stereotyper, 49 Ann-street, New-York.

CONTENTS.

Birth and parentage.-Characteristics of the Goldsmith race.--Poetical birth-

place.-Goblin house.-Scenes of boyhood.-Lissoy.--Picture of a country

parson.-Goldsmith's schoolmistress.-Byrne, the village schoolmaster.—

Goldsmith's hornpipe and epigram.-Uncle Contarine.-School studies and

school sports.-Mistakes of a night, .

Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith family.-Goldsmith at the university.—

Situation of a sizer.-Tyranny of Wilder, the tutor.-Pecuniary straits.—

Street ballads.-College riot.-Gallows Walsh.-College prize.-A dance

Goldsmith rejected by the bishop.-Second sally to see the world.-Takes

passage for America.-Ship sails without him.-Return on Fiddle-back.-

A hospitable friend.-The counsellor,

Sallies forth as a law student.-Stumbles at the outset.-Cousin Jane and the

valentine.-A family oracle.-Sallies forth as a student of medicine.-

Hocus-pocus of a boarding-house.-Transformations of a leg of mutton.-

The mock ghost.--Sketches of Scotland.-Trials of Toryism.-A poet's

purse for a Continental tour,

The agreeable fellow-passengers.-Risks from friends picked up by the way-

side.--Sketches of Holland and the Dutch.-Shifts while a poor student at

Leyden.—The tulip speculation.—The provident flute.—-Sojourn at Paris.—

Sketch of Voltaire.--Travelling shifts of a philosophic vagabond,

Landing in England.-Shifts of a man without money.-The pestle and

mortar.-Theatricals in a barn.-Launch upon London.-A city night

scene. Struggles with penury.-- Miseries of a tutor.-A doctor in the

suburb.-Poor practice and second-hand finery.—A tragedy in embryo.--

Project of the written mountains,

Life of a pedagogue.-Kindness to schoolboys-pertness in return.-Expensive

charities.-The Griffiths and the "Monthly Review."-Toils of a literary

hack.-Rupture with the Griffiths,

Newbery, of picture-book memory.-How to keep up appearances.-Miseries

of authorship.-A poor relation.-Letter to Hodson,

Hackney authorship.-Thoughts of literary suicide.-Return to Peckham.—

Oriental projects.-Literary enterprise to raise funds.-Letter to Edward

Wells-to Robert Bryanton.-Death of uncle Contarine.-Letter to cousin

Oriental appointment-and disappointment.-Examination at the College of

Surgeons. How to procure a suit of clothes.—Fresh disappointment.—A

tale of distress.-The suit of clothes in pawn.-Punishment for doing an

act of charity.-Gayeties of Green-Arbor Court.-Letter to his brother.—

Life of Voltaire.-Scroggins, an attempt at mock heroic poetry, 107

Publication of "The Inquiry."-Attacked by Griffiths' Review.-Kenrick, the

literary Ishmaelite.-Periodical literature.-Goldsmith's essays.-Garrick

as a manager.—Smollett and his schemes.-Change of lodgings.—The

Robin Hood club,

New lodgings.-Visits of ceremony.-Hangers-on.-Pilkington and the white

mouse.-Introduction to Dr. Johnson.-Davies and his bookshop.-Pretty

Mrs. Davies.-Foote and his projects.-Criticism of the cudgel,

Oriental projects.-Literary jobs.-The Cherokee chiefs.-Merry Islington

and the White Conduit House.-Letters on the History of England.-

James Boswell.-Dinner of Davies.-Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold-

Hogarth a visitor at Islington-his character.-Street studies.-Sympathies

between authors and painters.-Sir Joshua Reynolds-his character-his

dinners.-The Literary Club-its members.-Johnson's revels with Lanky

and Beau.-Goldsmith at the club,

Johnson a monitor to Goldsmith-finds him in distress with his landlady-

relieved by the Vicar of Wakefield.-The oratorio.-Poem of the Travel-

ler. The poet and his dog.-Success of the poem.-Astonishment of the

club.-Observations on the poem,

New lodgings.-Johnson's compliment.-A titled patron.- The poet at

Northumberland House.-His independence of the great.-The Countess

of Northumberland.-Edwin and Angelina.-Gosfield and Lord Clare.—

Publication of Essays. - Evils of a rising reputation. - Hangers-on.—

Job writing.-Goody Two-shoes.-A medical campaign. Mrs. Sidebo-

Publication of the Vicar of Wakefield- opinions concerning it—of Dr.

Johnson-of Rogers the poet-of Goëthe-its merits.- Exquisite ex-

tract.-Attack by Kenrick.—Reply.—Book-building.—Project of a com-

Social condition of Goldsmith-his colloquial contests with Johnson.-Anec-

dotes and illustrations,

Social resorts. The shilling whist club.-A practical joke.-The Wednesday

club.—The 'tun of man.'—The pig butcher.—Tom King.—Hugh Kelly.—

Glover and his characteristics,

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