THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA BY CHARLES LAMB EDITED WITH A MEMOIR AND NOTES BY WILLIAM MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. BROCK LONDON J. M. DENT & CO. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. Headpiece List of Illustrations 'Mine was that gallery of good old family portraits'. 'The terror of luckless poacher' 'He casually looketh in about dinner-time' Keeping clear of secular contacts' Tailpiece-Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading . Headpiece-The Old Margate Hoy 98 Headpiece-Barbara S. 'An unusual weight of metal' Headpiece-The Genteel Style in Writing 'These twelve, one with another, made up twelve hundred years' Tailpiece-The Genteel Style in Writing Headpiece-The Tombs in the Abbey ''They must rob from their attendance on the worship' Headpiece-Amicus Redivivus The stifle of conflicting judgments' Headpiece Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney Tailpiece-Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney Headpiece-Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago 'Pink-coloured hose' The detestable hag of a domestic ' Headpiece-Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty, &c. 'Imagine the confusion of the guests' Tailpiece-Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty, &c. Headpiece Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age 165 120 126 135 136 141 144 148 |