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Eccentric Lord Coleraine 321

Eccentric Travellers 323

Elegy on a Geologist 328

ECCENTRIC ARTISTS.

Gilray and his Caricatures 330

William Blake, Painter and Poet 339

Nollekens, the Sculptor 350

THEATRICAL FOLKS.

The Young Roscius 363

Hardham's "No. 37" 368

Rare Criticism 370

The O. P. Riot 371

Origin of "Paul Pry" 372

Mrs. Garrick 374

Mathews, a Spanish Ambassador 378

Grimaldi, the Clown 382

Munden's Last Performance 387

Oddities of Dowton 389

Liston in Tragedy 391

Boyhood of Edmund Kean 398

A Mysterious Parcel 400

Masquerade Incident 402

Mr. T. P. Cooke in Melodrama and Pantomime 404

"Romeo and Juliet" in America 407

The Mulberries, a Shakspearian Club 408

Colley Cibber's Daughter 410

An Eccentric Love-Passage 413

True to the Text 415

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