PROSE WORKS.
Pencillings by the Way 1
Letters from under a Bridge 217
Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil—Part I.—
High Life in Europe—
Leaves from the Heart-book of Ernest Clay 251
The Marquis in Petticoats 269
Beauty and the Beast, or the handsome Mrs Titton
and her plain Husband 272
Brown's Day with the Mimpsons 275
Mr. and Mrs. Follett, or the Danger of meddling
with Married People 278
The Countess Nyschriem, and the handsome Artist 281
My One Adventure as a Brigand 283
Wigwam versus Almack's 285
Miss Jones's Son 294
Lady Rachel 298
The Phantom Head upon the Table 300
Getting to Windward 306
The Wife bequeathed and resumed 310
A Revelation of a Previous Life 313
American Life—
Count Pott's Strategy 316
The Female Wand 318
Two Buckets in a Well 323
Light Vervain 326
Nora Mehidy, or the strange Road to the Heart of
Mr. Hypolet Leathers 330
The Pharisee and the Barber 332
Mrs. Passable Trott 335
The Spirit Love of “Ione S—” 336
Mabel Wynne 339
The Ghost-ball at Congress Hall 342
Born to love Pigs and Chickens 345
The Widow by Brevet 348
Those Ungrateful Blidgimses 352
Dashes at Life—Part II.—
Inklings of Adventure—
Pedlar Karl 361
Niagara—Lake Ontario—The St. Lawrence 366
The Cherokee's Threat 372
F. Smith 377
Edith Linsey 383
Scenes of Fear 404
Incidents on the Hudson 410
The Gipsy of Sardis 412
Tom Fane and I 429
Larks in Vacation 433
A Log in the Archipelago 441
The Revenge of the Signor Basil 445
Love and Diplomacy 454
The Madhouse of Palermo 457
Minute Philosophies 460
Loiterings of Travel—
Lady Ravelgold 466
Paletto's Bride 474
Violanta Cesarini 479
Pasquali, the Tailor of Venice 486
The Bandit of Austria 489
Oonder-Hoofden, or the Undercliff 501
The Picker and Piler 504
Kate Crediford 507
Flirtation and Fox-Chasing 509
The Poet and the Mandarin 512
Meena Dimity, or why Mr Brown Crash took the
Tour 516
The Power of an “Injured Look” 518
Beware of Dogs and Waltzing 521
The Inlet of Peach-Blossoms 524
The Belle of the Belfry, or the daring Lover 528
Passages from an Epistolary Journal kept on a Visit
to England 530
My Adventures at the Tournament 543
Sketches of Travel 549
The four Rivers—the Hudson—the Mohawk—the
Chenango—the Susquehannah 574
Dashes at Life—Part III.—
Ephemera 577
[Consisting of a collection of the “jottings down”
contributed to the New Mirror and other papers,
deemed worth preserving as daguerreotypes of
the present—as records of matters as they fly.]
