TABLE OP CONTENTS.
The triumph ...
A boy among boys . .
Bitter mortifications .
Hester Milner ...
A pert young gentleman
Master Bishop and the apple
woman. ....
Meets Griffiths the bookseller
Writes a specimen-review .
Leases himself to Griffiths .
Au author's prospects .
Interval between patrons and
public . . . . . . 93
Literature used and despised . 94
Origin of Grub-street . . . 95
Sam Johnson and the lower class
of writers..... 96
Mr. John. Jackson and the higher
class...... 96
The Reign of periodicals . . 97
Goldsmith at the Dunciad . . 98
BOOK II. 1757 to 1759.
ATJTHOKSHIP BY COMPULSION. Pages 101 to 209.
CHAPTER I.
1757.
REVIEWING FOB, ME. AMD MBS. GRIFFITHS.
TAGS
1757. Author by Profession . . 101
JBt. 29. In the Griffiths-livery . . . 102
Mr. De Quincy's opinion of the
hiring ' . . . . .103
Writing for the Monthly Revieip . lOi
Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths superin-
tending ..... 105
Northern Antiquities . . . .10(5
The tragedy of Dovglas . . . 106
Why Garrick rejected it . . 107
The Poker Club . . . . 107
Advantages of persecution . 108
A. polite pooh ! pooh! , . . . 109
Wilkie's E'figomail . . 110
A. poet used for a scarecrow . . 110
Distinguished Mr. Puffs . .111
Want of critical depth no proof
of literary envy . . ... 112
Bonnell Thornton and George •
Colman..... 112
Criticising and praising Burke . 113
Compiling literary news from
Padua . . . . . 113
: Smollett, Hume, andWarhurton 114
Jonas Hauway and his projects. 115
Vails to servants put down . 115
Umbrellas forced into use . . 116
The Journey from Portsinouth . 117
Polignao's Anti-Lucrelim and
Gray's Mazier Tommy . . 118
Goldsmith and Horace Walpole. 119
Voltaire as a dramatist, Gray
and Bulwer-Lytton . . 119
Odes by Mr. Gray . . . . 120
Walpole's quarrel with Gray . 120
Habit of depreciation . . 121
Lessons in poetry . . . . 122
Gray praised by Goldsmith . 123
Johnson's influence yet unfelt . 124
Mr. De Quincy's opinion of Mrs.
Griffiths . . . -. . 126
Interpolation of articles . . 126
Mr. Griffiths's opinion of Gold-
smith ...... 127
In a garret near Salisbury-sq. . 128
Doctor James Grainger . . 128
Brother Charles visits the garret 129
A sore disappointment . . . 130
Charles Goldsmith's later for-
tunes ...... 130
Letter to brother-in-law Hodson 131
A picture for Irish friends . . 182
Irish memories and Irish pro-
mises ..... 133
Poor physician and poorer poet 134
1758. In debt all over Europe . . 134
JEt. 30. (February) • Translating- under
a feigned name . . . 135
Loses hope and courage . . 136
Gives up literature . . . 137
Goes back to Peekham school . 138
A medical appointment pro-
mised . . . . . 138
One more literary effort . . 139
Irish, independence . . . 139
Released from Peckham school. 140
CHAPTER III.
1758.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE TOOM LITERATURE.
1758. A new Magazine . ... 141
2Bt. 80. (August) Working for his outfit. 142
Letter to Edward Mills
What an Irish relative might do
What the Irish relative did . .
Letter to Robert Bryanton.
The Future invoked against the
Present.....
Ordinary fate of Authors .
Bread wanting, and milk-score
unpaid.....
Despair in the garret .
Starving where Butler and
Otway starved . . . .
Lamentations of a good old
English gentleman .
Letter to cousin Jane . . .
A fancy poi-trait
Living death of Uncle Gontarine
142
143
144
145
146
147
147
148
149
CHAPTER II.
1757-1758.
MAKING SHIFT TO EXIST.
1757. Quarrel with Griffiths . . 125
Close of engagement on the
Monthly Review . . •. . 125