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Sheppard Lee

Bird, Robert Montgomery (1806-1854)
  
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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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BOOK I. CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO SPEND AND HOW TO RETRIEVE A FORTUNE.
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BOOK II. CONTAINING SUNDRY ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ADVANTAGES OF GOOD LIVING, WITH A FEW CHAPTERS ON DOMESTIC FELICITY.
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BOOK III. CONTAINING MUCH THAT WILL BE INTERESTING TO YOUNG GENTLEMEN IN DEBT, AND TO FATHERS OF FAMILIES WHO DESIRE TO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN RISE IN SOCIETY.
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CHAPTER I. The inconveniences of being drowned.—The first chapter of the history of I. D. Dawkins, Esq.
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CHAPTER II. A conversation betwixt the Author and his bosom friend, John Tickle, Esq.
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CHAPTER III. In which Sheppard Lee is prepared for the brilliant destiny that awaits him.
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CHAPTER IV. In which Sheppard Lee has an interview with a lady, who tells him a secret.
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CHAPTER V. An inventory of a young gentleman's effects, with some account of Mr. Sniggles, his landlord.
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CHAPTER VI. Sheppard Lee hears news of his uncle, and Mr. Sniggles is brought to his senses.
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CHAPTER VII. In which Sheppard Lee is told his history.
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CHAPTER VIII. A conversation with a tailor. Sheppard Lee finds himself in a situation truly appalling.
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CHAPTER IX. The Author receives a visit from his uncle, Samuel Wilkins, Esq., and is relieved from his tormentors.
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CHAPTER X. Some account of Sheppard Lee's country kinsmen.
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CHAPTER XI. Containing a morsel of metaphysics, with a short account of the Author's experience in good society.
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CHAPTER XII. Sheppard Lee makes the acquaintance of his cousin, Miss Pattie Wilkins.
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CHAPTER XIII. A further account of Miss Pattie Wilkins.
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CHAPTER XIV. A short chapter, containing an account of the Author's cousin, Samuel Wilkins, Jr.
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CHAPTER XV. In which Sheppard Lee visits Mr. Periwinkle Smith and his fair daughter, and is intrusted with a secret which both astonishes and afflicts him.
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CHAPTER XVI. Containing much instructive matter in relation to good society, whereby the ambitious reader can determine what are his prospects of entering it.
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CHAPTER XVII. In which Sheppard Lee relates the passion he conceived for his fair cousin, and his engagement to elope with her.
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CHAPTER XVIII. In which Sheppard Lee recounts an engagement of a similar nature which he formed with the fair Alicia.
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CHAPTER XIX. The ingenious devices with which Sheppard Lee prepared the way for the elopement.
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CHAPTER XX. The guests that Sheppard Lee invited to his wedding.
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CHAPTER XXI. Containing a scialogue, or curious conversation with nothing; with a discovery extremely astonishing to several persons.
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CHAPTER XXII. In which Sheppard Lee finds that he has made the fortune of his friends, without having greatly advantaged his own.
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CHAPTER XXIII. A crisis. Sheppard Lee is reduced to great extremities, and takes refuge in the house of mourning.
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CHAPTER XXIV. What happened in the dead-chamber.—The dirge of a wealthy parent.
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BOOK IV. CONTAINING ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOLLY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO, AND THE WISDOM OF MAKING A FORTUNE.

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SHEPPARD LEE.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. “Let these shine now that never shone before, And those that always shone now shine the more.” Advertisement to Hunt's Blacking.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, CLIFF-ST.
© 1836.
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