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Title: Books and Authors
Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 2, 2009 [EBook #30396]

Language: English

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

In the anecdote "DISADVANTAGEOUS CORRECTION", the point of the tale
depends on the difference between an i with a macron (long vowel) and an
i with a breve (short vowel) These have been represented as [=i] and
[)i] respectively.

Two changes have been made to the text:

In the anecdote "DR. JOHNSON'S CRITICISMS", one instance of the word
"by" was deleted from the passage: "just by by chance".

In "THE MERMAID CLUB", Johnson was changed to Jonson in the passage:
"Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander in his letter to Jonson..."

[Illustration: FINDING THE MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN. _Page 7._]

[Illustration: Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo.]

BOOKS AND AUTHORS:

Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM P. NIMMO.

EDINBURGH: MURRAY AND GIBB,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

CONTENTS.
PAGE

Ale, Bishop Still's Praise of 83
A Learned Young Lady 149
Alfieri's Hair 153
Authors, Hard Fate of 59
Authorship, Pains and Toils of 125
Bad's the Best--Canning's Criticism 50
"Beggar's Opera," Origin of the 140
Bell, Death of Sir Charles 46
Blue-Stocking Club, the 10
Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap, Relics of 115
Boileau's, A Carouse at 147
Bolingbroke at Battersea