TABLE OF CONTENTS.
At Islington.....369
His landlady's bills . . .370
Goody Two Shoes and Tom Hicka,-
tlirift.....371
Johnson in the nursery . . 371
Beynolds at Islington . . 372
Borrowing at the Society of Arts 372
Pope and Garrick . . .373
Homage to Pope . . . 373
Garrick in Pains . . . . 374
A rival at home .... 375
Ganick's earliest critic. . . 376
Powell's success . . . 377
O'Brien and Lady Susan . . 377
Horace Walpole's horror . . 378
New York ninety years ago . 378
Percy and Grainger . . . 379
Civil highwaymen . . . . 379
Goldsmith and Percy. . . 380
An epitaph, by Goldsmith . 380
A round of v^sitings . . • 381
The Thralls . . . .382
Mr. Groker's discoveries . . 382
Goldsmith, arrested . . .383
Johnson sent.for . . . . 384
Who arrested him? . . .385
The story mis-related . . . 385
Newbery's friendship with the
landlady.....386
Sale of the Vicar of Wdkefldd . 386
Opinions of Manuscripts . .386
What Johnson thoughtthe Vicar
worth . . . .. . . 387
Gosfield or Goosefield . . 410
The Greuville ministry . . . 411
Taxation of America . . . 412
Fall of Grenville . . . . 413
Burke's hopes .... 414
The Rockingham party . . 415
The new premier . . .416
Comvay and Walpole . . . 416
Mr. O'Bourke . . . .417
A love jaifair of Horace Walpole's 417
Garrick, Powell, and Steme . . 418
Finessing and trick . . .419
The Actor and the Club . . 420
Hawkins and Garrick . .421
The vicar of Egham . . . 421
Doctor Goldsmith . . . 422
Fine clothes and fine company . 423
Beauclerc's advice . . . . 423
CHAPTER XII.
1765—1766.
NEWS FOB THE CLUB, OP VARIOUS KINDS AND
PROM VABIOTJS PLACES.
1765. Society of Arts . . . .424
Mi. 37. Miss Williams's Miscellanies . , 425
Johnson's &haksj>eare, and his
Doctorate .... 425
1766. Chambers in Garden-Court . . 426
JEfc. 88. English in Paris . . 426
Hume, Rousseau, Barry, and
Boswell .... . . . 427
Walpole enphilosophe. . . 428
A solemn coxcomb hi London . 429
The ox and the frogs . . 429
Johnson's treatment of books . 430
Players and poets . . . . 431
Old friends quarrelling . . 432
Kenrick's Falstaff . . . 432
Goldsmith and Johnson . . 433
Noble self-rebuke . . . 433
Johnson "making a line" . 434
Reappearance of Boswell . . 434
The big man .... 435
Boswell and Mr. Pitt . . . 435
(14th January) Burke enters
Parliament .... 436
His first and Pitt's last speeches 437
Astonishment at the Club . 437
Another marvel . . . . 438
John and Francis Newbery . 489
The Vicar of Wakffield . . . 439
CHAPTER X.
1764—1765.
"TUB TRAVELLER " AND WHAT FOLLOWED IT.
1764. (Dec. 19) The Traveller published 388
jBt. 36. Dedication..... 389
Charles Churchill , . . 390
Legitimate satire . . . 390
Goldsmith and Pope . . . 391
Merits of The Traveller , • 892
Johnson's help . .* . . 898
Not knowing what one means . 394
Luke's crown explained . • 395
Being partial the wrong way . 396
Patronising airs . . . :
Benny dear..... 397
Sacrifice of a heast . . . 397
Charles Fox and The Traveller .
The Reviews ....
1765. Essays by Mr. ffoldsmith . . 400
Mt. 87. What the Monthly Renew said . 401
Edioui and Angelina . . . 402
Charge of plagiarism . . .402
Percy and Goldsmith . . . 403
A hint to young writers . . 404
At Northumberland House . . 405
A "bookseller's "Recommenda-
tion" ..... 405
An Idiot..... 406
Borrowing fifteen, and sixpence. 40£
The best patrons . . . 407
An agreement for ninety-nine
years...... 408
CHAPTER XI.
1765.
aOLDSMITH IN PRACTICE AND B0BKE IN
OFFICE.
1765. Robert Nugent . . . .409
2Bt, 37. His three wives , . . . 410
APPENDIX.
A. DOCTOR STREAK AND THE REV.
EDWARD MANGIN . . . 441
A letter to the author of this
book . . . . . . 442
Original recollections by Mr.
Mangin..... 442
B. LETTER TO MRS. ANNB GOLD-
SMITH ,..... 443
* The adventure of Fiddleback . 444
Economical benevolence . . 445
C. ONE LETTER TO BUY ANTON AND
THREE TO CONTAHINE . . 446
The women of Scotland . . 447
The professors in Edinburgh . 448
Philosophy of medicine . . 449
A Jacobite adventure . . 450
Experiences of Holland . . 451
D. THE PLAY off " GISIPPTTS " . 452
A scene...... 453