.TABLE OF CONTENTS.

BOOK III. 1759 to. 1767.

AUTHORSHIP BY CHOICE. Pages 213 to 439. (And pages 3 to 110 of the Second

Volume.)

CHAPTER I.
; 1759.

WEEDING THE " BEE."

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1759. Activity hi Grub-street
/Et. 31, Dullness and her progeny . .
A doubtful recruit
Samuel Johnson . ...

A walk round Grosvenor-square
The knell of patronage
Encouragement and example .
Thirty pounds a year . . .
A Great Cham hi great distress
• Society gathering round John-
son . . . . .

Poverty and independence . .

(October) First number of the

See ......

Playhouse criticism .
The author of Gisippus . . .
Actors and actresses, Gold-
smith and Charles Lamb
Second number of the See . .
Third number of the See .
Goldsmith, Voltaire, and Talley-
rand ......

Fourth number of the See.
Booksellers'literature . . .
Writing for the Busy Łody and

the Lady's Magazine
Fifth number of the See . .
Goldsmith's first mention of

All evening with a bookseller
Night wanderings . .
Sympathy with the wretched

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CHAPTER II.

1759.

DAVID GABB.IOK.

1759. (November 29th) Close of the See 231

3it. 81. Love of the theatre . . . 231

Garriok and Ralph . , . 232

Authors and managers . . . 238

Unpublished letter by Mr. Ralph 234

A comic or a tragic Luliput ? . 235

Garrick's management . , . 236
Injustice to players and wrongs

to dramatists .... 237

Goldsmith attacks Garrick . . 238

Garrick resents the attack . 239

Inconsiderate expressions . . 240

The actor's claims . . . 241
[A retrospect of Garrick's yoitih
and first appearanee on the
stage, from umrinted letters,
pp. 242 to 268.]

Acting Serjeant Kite at eleven 242

. The boy's letters to his father 243

His father's picture . . . 244

At Johnson's school . . 244

A wine-merchant . . . 245

Acts under an assumed name 246

. His brother and the wine-trade 246

What acting was then . . 247

. The old school and the new .' 248

The 19th October, 1741 .. . 249

IABE

A Lichfield citizen's account

ofit..... 250

Garrick's own account of it . 251

The shock to brother Peter . 252

Apologies for the stage . . 253

Audiences at Goodman's Fields 254

A dozen Dukes of a night . 255

Mr. Pitt and other M. P's . 25R

Peter continues obdurate . . 257

Increasing successes . . 258

Peter's terrible question . . 259

The question answered . . 260
Pope and Murray complete the

triiimph..... 261

The Future in the Present . 262
Influence on Garrick's cha-
racter .... 263

CHAPTER III.

1759-1760.

OVERTURES FBOM SMOLLETT AND ME.
NEWBEBY.

1759. (December) Important visitors
JEt. 31. in Green Arbour Court . . 264

Candour towards an unsuccess-
ful author .... 265

1760. (January 1) Smollett's British
Mt. 32. Magazine.....266

Essays contributed by Gold-
smith ..... 267

Cheerful philosophy . . . 268

A puff by Goldsmith . . . 269

A country Wow-wow . . . 269

(Jan. 12) Newbery's newspaper. 270

A Daily Paper then and now . 271
The author of Tommy Trip and

Giles Gingerbread . . . 271
Goldsmith engaged for the Public

ledger .'..... 272

A Guinea an Article . . . 272

CHAPTER IV.

1760.

" THE CITIZEN OB1 THE WOBLD."

1760. (January 24 and 29) The first

j35t. 32. and second Cliinese Letters . 273
Percy's novel and Walpole's

squib...... 273

Newspaper shadows and reali-
ties ...... 274

• Griffiths swallows the leek ; . 275
The Citizen of tlie World . . 276

- Social reforms suggested in it . 277
Quacks and pretenders . , 278

Law and Church..... 278

Doctor Marrowfat . . . 279

Property and poverty . ... 280

Mad-dog cries .... 281

Pictures of the day . . . 282

Laurence Sterna . . . 282
Goldsmith's attack on Tristram

Shandy . . ... 283

, Beau Tibba andthe Man inBlack 284

Jack Pilkington. . . . 285pts a tragedy . , , 81