Chapter II: Introduction

CHAPTER I Misnomers

CHAPTER II The Squire and his Niece

CHAPTER III The Duke's Folly

CHAPTER IV The Forest--A Soliloquy on Hair

CHAPTER V. The Seven Sisters

CHAPTER VI The Rustic Lover

CHAPTER VII The Vicar and his Wife--Families of Love:-- The Newspaper

CHAPTER VIII Pantopragmatics

CHAPTER IX Saint Catharine

CHAPTER X The Thunderstorm

CHAPTER XI Electrical Science--The Death of Philemon

CHAPTER XII The Forest Dell--The Power of Love--The Lottery of Marriage

CHAPTER XIII Lord Curryfin--Siberian Dinners--Social Monotony

CHAPTER XIV Music and Painting--Jack of Dover

CHAPTER XV Expression in Music--The Dappled Palfrey--Love and Age--Competitive Examination

CHAPTER XVI Miss Niphet--The Theatre--The Lake--Divided Attraction --Infallible Safety

CHAPTER XVII Horse-Taming--Love in Dilemma--Injunctions--Sonorous Vases

CHAPTER XVIII Lectures--The Power of Public Opinion--A New Order of Chivalry

CHAPTER XIX A Symposium--Transatlantic Tendencies --After-Dinner Lectures--Education

CHAPTER XX Algernon and Morgana--Opportunity and Repentance --The Forest in Winter

CHAPTER XXI Skating--Pas de deux on the Ice--Congeniality --Flints among Bones

CHAPTER XXII The Seven against Thebes--A Soliloquy on Christmas

CHAPTER XXIII The two Quadrilles--Pope's Ombre--Poetical Truth to Nature--Cleopatra

CHAPTER XXIV Progress of Sympathy--Love's Injunctions--Orlando Innamorato

CHAPTER XXV Harry and Dorothy

CHAPTER XXVI Doubts and Questions

CHAPTER XXVII Love in Memory

CHAPTER XXVIII Aristophanes in London

CHAPTER XXIX The Bald Venus--Inez de Castro--The Unity of Love

CHAPTER XXX A Captive Knight--Richard and Alice

CHAPTER XXXI A Twelfth-Night Ball--Pantopragmatic Cookery --Modern Vandalism--A Bowl of Punch

CHAPTER XXXII Hopes and Fears--Compensations in Life--Athenian Comedy--Madeira and Music--Confidences

CHAPTER XXXIII The Conquest of Thebes

CHAPTER XXXIV Christmas Tales--Classical Tales of Wonder--The Host's Ghost--A Tale of a Shadow--A Tale of a Bogle--The Legend of St. Laura

CHAPTER XXXV Rejected Suitors--Conclusion

GRYLL GRANGE

Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind leading of the blind:--
And like the world, men's jobbemoles
Turn round upon their ears the poles,
And what they're confidently told
By no sense else can be controll'd.

In the following pages the New Forest is always mentioned as if it were still unenclosed. This is the only state in which the Author has been acquainted with it. Since its enclosure, he has never seen it, and purposes never to do so.

The mottoes are sometimes specially apposite to the chapters to which they are prefixed; but more frequently to the general scope, or, to borrow a musical term, the _motivo_ of the _operetta_.