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MEMOIR OF THEODORE HOOK 3

THE RAMSBOTTOM PAPERS:--

POLITICAL SONGS AND SQUIBS:--

Carmen AEstuale 133

Ass-ass-ination 135

Michael's Dinner 138

Mrs. Muggins's Visit to the Queen 140

Hunting the Hare 147

The City Concert 152

Invitations to Dinner 156

Vacation Reminiscences 159

Reminiscences Continued 162

Gaffer Grey 166

The Idle Apprentice turned Informer 170

The Queen's Subscription 174

Opposition 178

The Invitation 184

The Beggars--A New Song 188

Bubbles of 1825 194

The Grand Revolution 197

Imitation of Bunbury's "Little Grey Man" 200

Humpty-Dumpty 203

Parody--"While Johnny Gale Jones" 204

Parody--"The young May Moon" 205

Disappointment 206

TENTAMEN; OR, AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON, SOME TIME LORD MAYOR OF LONDON 207

MISCELLANIES, IN VERSE AND PROSE:--

Mr. Ward's Allegorical Picture of Waterloo 249

Letter from a Goose 259

The Hum-Fum Gamboogee Society 262

Moral Theatricals 269

Private Correspondence of Public Men 275

The Cockney's Letter 280

Byroniana 284

Lord Wenables 288

Lord Wenables Again 304

Modern Improvements 309

Punning, with Cautionary Verses to Youth of both Sexes 316

Fashionable Parties 322

A Day's Proceedings of a Reformed Parliament 325

Clubs 333

Rachel Stubbs' Letter to Richard Turner 336

Mr. Minus the Poet 338

National Distress 339

Hints for the Levee 347

The Inconsistencies of Cant 350

Prince Puckler-Muskau's Tour 355

Prospectus for a General Burying Company 388

Letter from John Trot to John Bull 392

The March of Intellect 395

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