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The Choice Humorous Works of Theodore Hook

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  1. 1Memoir of Theodore Hook
  2. 2The Ramsbottom Papers
  3. 3I — Mrs. Ramsbottom’s Party
  4. 4II — Miss Lavinia Ramsbottom
  5. 5III — Miss Lavinia’s Letter From Paris, Forwarding Her Mother’s Jou…
  6. 6IV — Higginbottom and Ramsbottom
  7. 7V — Miss Lavinia Ramsbottom Forwards the Continuation of Her Mother…
  8. 8VI — Adventures at Paris
  9. 9VII — Further Adventures at Paris
  10. 10VIII — Mrs. Ramsbottom Back in London
  11. 11IX — Mrs. Ramsbottom Announces the Death of Her Husband and Describ…
  12. 12X — Mrs. Ramsbottom Objects to Being Put in a Play
  13. 13XI — Mrs. Ramsbottom Writes From Dieppe
  14. 14XII — Hastings
  15. 15XIII — Mrs. Ramsbottom on the House of Commons
  16. 16XIV — Mrs. Ramsbottom on the Canning Administration
  17. 17XV — Mrs. Ramsbottom on Smoking
  18. 18XVI — Mrs. Ramsbottom’s Conundrums
  19. 19XVII — A Letter From Cheltenham
  20. 20XVIII — Hastings Again
  21. 21XIX — News From Hastings
  22. 22XX — Mrs. Ramsbottom Gives Her Opinion of the Relative Merits of Ma…
  23. 23XXI — Mrs. Ramsbottom Contemplates the Collection of Her Letters In…
  24. 24XXII — Mrs. Ramsbottom’s Opinions on Popery
  25. 25XXIII — Mrs. Ramsbottom at the Royal Academy
  26. 26XXIV — Mrs. Ramsbottom at the “Chiswick Fête”
  27. 27XXV — A Letter From Walmer
  28. 28XXVI — A Peck of Troubles
  29. 29XXVII — Mrs. Ramsbottom’s Opinions on Public Events
  30. 30XXVIII — Mrs. Ramsbottom Declares Herself a Convert to “Reform”
  31. 31XXIX — Mrs. Ramsbottom on the House of Lords
  32. 32Political Songs and Squibs — Carmen Æstuale
  33. 33Ass-Ass-Ination
  34. 34Michael’s Dinner; or, Staunch Friends to Reform
  35. 35Hunting the Hare
  36. 36The City Concert
  37. 37Invitations to Dinner
  38. 38Vacation Reminiscences; or, Whig Operations Up to Easter
  39. 39Gaffer Grey
  40. 40The Idle Apprentice Turned Informer
  41. 41The Queen’s Subscription
  42. 42The Invitation
  43. 43Bubbles of 1825
  44. 44The Grand Revolution!
  45. 45Humpty-Dumpty
  46. 46Parody
  47. 47“The Young May Moon.” — (A Parody.)
  48. 48Disappointment
  49. 49Tentamen
  50. 50Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose — Mr. Ward’s Allegorical Picture o…
  51. 51Letter From a Goose
  52. 52The Hum-Fum Gamboogee Society
  53. 53Moral Theatricals
  54. 54Private Correspondence of Public Men
  55. 55The Cockney’s Letter
  56. 56Byroniana
  57. 57Lord Wenables
  58. 58Lord Wenables Again
  59. 59Modern Improvements
  60. 60Punning
  61. 61Fashionable Parties
  62. 62A Day’s Proceedings of a Reformed Parliament
  63. 63Clubs
  64. 64Rachael Stubbs’s Letter to Richard Turner
  65. 65Mr. Minus, the Poet
  66. 66National Distress
  67. 67Hints for the Levee
  68. 68The Inconsistencies of Cant
  69. 69Prince Puckler-Muskau’s Tour
  70. 70Prospectus for a General Burying Company
  71. 71Letter From John Trot to John Bull
  72. 72The March of Intellect
  73. 73Sunday Bills
  74. 74The Spinster’s Progress
  75. 75Errors of the Press
  76. 76The Visit to Wrigglesworth
  77. 77A Visit to the Old Bailey
  78. 78The Toothpick-Makers’ Company
  79. 79The Manservant’s Letter
  80. 80The Bibliomaniac
  81. 81Absence of Mind
  82. 82A Distinguished Traveller
  83. 83Daly’s Practical Jokes
  84. 84The Ballet
  85. 85Toll-Gates and Their Keepers
  86. 86Tom Sheridan’s Adventure
  87. 87Polly Higginbottom
  88. 88Song
  89. 89Philip
  90. 90The Blacksmith
  91. 91“My Father Did So Before Me”
  92. 92“Throughout My Life the Girls I’ve Pleased”
  93. 93The Chambermaid
  94. 94Song
  95. 95Sir Tilbury Tott
  96. 96Venice Preserved
  97. 97Daylight Dinners
  98. 98Clubs
  99. 99Visitings
  100. 100“Pen and Quill Manufacturer”
  101. 101Epigram
  102. 102On the Latin Gerunds — The Splendid Annual
  103. 103Anecdotes, Hoaxes, and Jests — The Berners-Street Hoax
  104. 104Romeo Coates
  105. 105Hook, Mathews, and the Alderman
  106. 106A Strange Dinner
  107. 107Ludicrous Adventure at Sunbury
  108. 108Charles Mathews and Hook
  109. 109Hook’s “First Appearance”
  110. 110Hook and Dowton the Actor
  111. 111Letter From Mauritius
  112. 112Evading a Coach Fare
  113. 113Unsuccessful Hunt for a Dinner
  114. 114Hook at Lord Melville’s Trial
  115. 115The Thirty-Nine Articles
  116. 116“Chaffing” a Proctor
  117. 117Summary Proceedings of Winter
  118. 118“Something Wrong in the Chest”
  119. 119Warren’s Blacking
  120. 120The Wine-Cellar and the Book-Seller
  121. 121Sir Robert Peel’s Anecdotes of Theodore Hook
  122. 122A Receipt Against Night Air
  123. 123Punting
  124. 124“List” Shoes
  125. 125“The Abattoir”
  126. 126Putney Bridge
  127. 127“Mr. Thompson Is Tired”
  128. 128The Original “Paul Pry”
  129. 129Hook and Tom Hill
  130. 130Hook’s Politeness
  131. 131A Biscuit and a Glass of Sherry
  132. 132Much Alike
  133. 133Private Medical Practice
  134. 134Hook’s Street Fun
  135. 135A Misnomer · “Contingencies” · “The Widow’s Mite” — Hook’s Extempor…
  136. 136Hook Extemporises a Melodrama
  137. 137“Ass-Ass-Ination”
  138. 138“Weather or No”
  139. 139Diamond Cut Diamond
  140. 140Tom Moore — Losing a Hat
  141. 141“Good Night”

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