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The Paris and Irish Sketch Books

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  1. 1Contents
  2. 2An Invasion of France
  3. 3A Caution to Travellers
  4. 4The Fêtes of July in a Letter to the Editor of the ‘Bungay Beacon’
  5. 5On the French School of Painting With Appropriate Anecdotes, Illust…
  6. 6The Painter’s Bargain
  7. 7Cartouche
  8. 8On Some French Fashionable Novels With a Plea for Romances in General
  9. 9A Gambler’s Death
  10. 10Napoleon and His System on Prince Louis Napoleon’s Work
  11. 11The Story of Mary Ancel
  12. 12Beatrice Merger
  13. 13Caricatures and Lithography in Paris
  14. 14Little Poinsinet
  15. 15The Devil’s Wager
  16. 16Madame Sand and the New Apocalypse
  17. 17The Case of Peytel in a Letter to Edward Briefless, Esquire, of Pum…
  18. 18French Dramas and Melodramas
  19. 19Meditations at Versailles
  20. 20Chapter I — A Summer Day in Dublin, or There and Thereabouts
  21. 21Chapter II — A Country-House in Kildare — Sketches of an Irish Fami…
  22. 22Chapter III — From Carlow to Waterford
  23. 23Chapter IV — From Waterford to Cork
  24. 24Chapter V — Cork — The Agricultural Show — Father Mathew
  25. 25Chapter VI — Cork — The Ursuline Convent
  26. 26Chapter VII — Cork
  27. 27Chapter VIII — From Cork to Bantry; With an Account of the City of…
  28. 28Chapter IX — Rainy Days at Glengariff
  29. 29Chapter X — From Glengariff to Killarney
  30. 30Chapter XI — Killarney — Stag-Hunting on the Lake
  31. 31Chapter XII — Killarney — The Races — Mucross
  32. 32Chapter XIII — Tralee — Listowel — Tarbert
  33. 33Chapter XIV — Limerick
  34. 34Chapter XV — Galway — Kilroy’s Hotel — Galway Night’s Entertainment…
  35. 35Chapter XVI — More Rain in Galway — A Walk There — And the Second G…
  36. 36Chapter XVII — From Galway to Ballynahinch
  37. 37Chapter XVIII — Roundstone Petty Sessions
  38. 38Chapter XIX — Clifden to Westport
  39. 39Chapter XX — Westport
  40. 40Chapter XXI — The Pattern at Croagh-Patrick
  41. 41Chapter XXII — From Westport to Ballinasloe
  42. 42Chapter XXIII — Ballinasloe to Dublin
  43. 43Chapter XXIV — Two Days in Wicklow
  44. 44Chapter XXV — Country Meetings in Kildare — Meath — Drogheda
  45. 45Chapter XXVI — Dundalk
  46. 46Chapter XXVII — Newry, Armagh, Belfast — From Dundalk to Newry
  47. 47Chapter XXVIII — Belfast to the Causeway
  48. 48Chapter XXIX — The Giant’s Causeway — Coleraine — Portrush
  49. 49Chapter XXX — Peg of Limavaddy
  50. 50Chapter XXXI — Templemoyle — Derry
  51. 51Chapter XXXII — Dublin at Last

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