STOR LINE

NOV 25 1976
NEW-YORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

An Imitation.

Exordium on the choice of books-influence of

a prospectus-difficulties of criticism

ART. I. The original Ms. of the Code of Justinian dis-

covered by I. D'Israeli, Esq., D. C. L. and

F. S. A.

II. The Bayeux Tapestry, and the royal operative-a

splendid flim-flam!

III. An unpublished teston of Henry VIII.—from the

cabinet of I. D'Israeli, Esq., D. C. L. and

F. S. A.

IV. The effrontery of Vasari - the bonhomie of Sil-

vano Razzi-the union of both in I. D'Israeli,

Esq., D.C.L. and F.S.A.

V. A lament for Luis de Camoens-with a specimen

of superfluous fiction

VI. Queen Elizabeth appointing her successor — our

female historian and our male historian

VII. John Stow the annalist-with illustrations of

ancient gravity and modern flippancy

39

VIII. Cervantes-Don Quijote de la Mancha a native

of Barbary!

44

IX. Sir Walter Ralegh-the author of some passages

interspersed in the History of the World

47

X. Philip III. of Spain his last illness, and prema-

ture death

64

XII. The Reverend Samuel Purchas, M.A.-sipping

coffee at Constantinople anno 1614

XIII. A glance into the French Academy

history of certain arm-chairs

75

with a

78

81

XIV. La Guirlande de Julie-with curious specimens

of history and ratiocination

XV. The true sources of Secret History-now first

disclosed by I. D'Israeli, Esq., D. C. L. and

F. S. A.

84.

XVI. Secret history of the Restoration of Charles II.

"I always give the pour and the contre !

-I. D'Israeli

XVII. A historian with no conception of the dignity of

history-scilicet, Clarendon !

XVIII. The Ashmolean Ms.

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archaiologic proficiency

with a specimen of

XIX. Character of Queen Mary II.-"I always give

the pour and the contre!"-I. D'Israeli

XX. Lady Grace Gethin versus I. D'Israeli, Esq.,

D.C.L. and F.S.A.

XXI. The path of the Woolsthorpe apple-calculated

on data not known to Sir Isaac Newton!

XXII. William Collins - with a true and particular

account of the public ignition of his Odes

XXIII. Facts relative to William Oldys, Esq., Norroy

King at Arms

courtly style

with specimens of his un-

XXIV. The poet Shenstone-the schoolmistress Sarah

Lloyd-the critic D'Israeli: an anticlimax

XXV. M. de Buffon and the Tour de Saint Louis- a

critico-topographical sketch

134

138

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XXVI. The romance of modern history last words

of the Duc d'Enghien: *:

XXVII. An immaculate edition Os Lusíadas de Camoes,

por Dom Jozé Maria de Souza Botelho

TIBBVBA

CONTENTS.

XXVIII. The three species of Discovery-in part illus-

trated by I. D'Israeli, Esq., D. C. L. and