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Social and Scientific: By An old contributor to Maga [i.e. Charles Neaves]: Fourth Edition, Enlarged

(1800-1876)

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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.

THE MEMORY OF MONBODDO.

THE DARWINIAN ERA OF FARMING.

THE LEATHER BOTTÈL.

THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.

DON'T FORGET THE RICH.

O WHY SHOULD A WOMAN NOT GET A DEGREE?

THE READING OF GREEK.

THE PROPOSAL OF POLTYS.

THE PENNY OF PASES.

PLATONIC PARADOXES.

STUART MILL ON MIND AND MATTER.

THE IN-OSCULATION OF SCIENCE AND ART.

DUST AND DISEASE.

KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

GASTER, THE FIRST M. A.

BEEF AND POTATOES.

A SONG OF PROVERBS.

A SONG OF TRUISMS.

HOW TO MAKE A NOVEL.

THE TOURIST'S MATRIMONIAL GUIDE THROUGH SCOTLAND.

DECIMIS INCLUSIS.

THE JOLLY TESTATOR WHO MAKES HIS OWN WILL.

O! HE WAS LANG O' COMING.

SATURDAY AT E'EN.

THE SHERIFF'S LIFE AT SEA:

LET US ALL BE UNHAPPY ON SUNDAY.

THE THREE MODERATORS.

THE SONS OF THE MANSE.

SONG SUNG AT THE SYMPOSIUM IN THE SALOON, 3D OF JANUARY 1840.

SONG AT THE SYMPOSIUM ON MAGA.

HEY FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE, O!

I'M VERY FOND OF WATER.

THE PERMISSIVE BILL.

OLD NOAH'S INVENTION.

THE PLANTING OF THE VINE.

A BOTTLE AND FRIEND.

A FLASK OF ROSY WINE.

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A PAGE OR TWO OF EPIGRAMS, &c.

The best Medical Attendants.

On Writing one's own Epitaph.

French and English.

Answer by Henry Erskine to the Duchess of Gordon, who refused to go to a County Ball as it would be “vulgar and dull.”

Inscription on a Placard placed near the customary seat of a Blind Beggar in the Streets of Paris.

The Tuft-Hunter.

A Latin Recipe for framing an Indictment.

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The best Medical Attendants.

With Doctor Diet, and Doctor Quiet,
And now and then good Doctor Merryman,
Disease—you almost may defy it,
And cheat for years the Stygian ferryman.