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Alphabet Single Rhymed 565

Non Sequitur and Therefore 566

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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"Vathek" Beckford. From a Medallion 1

John Farquhar surveying the Ruins of Fonthill 21

Beau Brummel. From a Miniature 22

Lord Alvanley. A Pillar of White's 27

Beau Brummel in Retirement at Calais 35

Sir Lumley Skeffington in a "Jean de Brie" 36

Sir Lumley Skeffington, as dressed for the "Birthday Ball" 40

Robert Coates, the Amateur of Fashion, as "Romeo" 41

Squire Mytton of Halston on his Bear 48

Lord Petersham; a noble Aide-de-Camp 55

The Eccentric Miss Banks, an Old Maid on a Journey 80

The First Rothschild--a well-known Character on 'Change 96

Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier 116

Lady Archer, Enamelling at her Toilet 122

The Alchemist 124

Jack Adams, the Astrologer 130

A Hermit of the Sixteenth Century 145

Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Mary Ponsonby, the Recluses of Llangollen 156

Major Peter Labelliere, a Christian Patriot 163

Margaret Finch, the Norwood Gipsy 177

Edward Irving, the Millenarian 184

Joanna Southcote 198

Facsimile of Autograph with Seal of the Elect 209

William Huntington, the Converted Coalheaver 219

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