Chapter VIII: Book III: Containing The End Of Mr. Esmond's Adventures In England

Chapter I. I Come To An End Of My Battles And Bruises
Chapter II. I Go Home, And Harp On The Old String
Chapter III. A Paper Out Of The "Spectator"
Chapter IV. Beatrix's New Suitor
Chapter V. Mohun Appears For The Last Time In This History
Chapter VI. Poor Beatrix
Chapter VII. I Visit Castlewood Once More
Chapter VIII. I Travel To France And Bring Home A Portrait Of Rigaud
Chapter IX. The Original Of The Portrait Comes To England
Chapter X. We Entertain A Very Distinguished Guest At Kensington
Chapter XI. Our Guest Quits Us As Not Being Hospitable Enough
Chapter XII. A Great Scheme, And Who Balked It
Chapter XIII. August 1st, 1714
Appendix
The English Humourists Of The Eighteenth Century
Lecture The First. Swift
Lecture The Second. Congreve And Addison
Lecture The Third. Steele
Lecture The Fourth. Prior, Gay, And Pope
Lecture The Fifth. Hogarth, Smollett, And Fielding
Lecture The Sixth. Sterne And Goldsmith
The Georges
The Poems
Sketches Of Manners, Morals, Court And Town Life
George The First
George The Second
George The Third
George The Fourth
Footnotes

THACKERAYANA

NOTES AND ANECDOTES

Illustrated by Hundreds of Sketches

BY

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Depicting Humorous Incidents in his School Life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the Books of his Every-day Reading CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Voyage from India—Touching at St. Helena—School days at the Charterhouse—Early Reminiscences—Sketches in School Books—Boyish Scribblings—Favourite Fictions—Youthful Caricatures—Souvenirs of the Play 1 CHAPTER II. Early Favourites—The 'Castle of Otranto'—Rollin's 'Ancient History' 18 CHAPTER III. Thackeray's last visit to the Charterhouse—College days—Pendennis at Cambridge—Sketches of Universities—Sporting subjects—Etchings at Cambridge—Pencillings in old authors—Pictorial Puns—The 'Snob,' a Literary and Scientific Journal—'Timbuctoo,' a Prize Poem 47 CHAPTER IV. Early Favourites—Fielding's 'Joseph Andrews'—Imitators of Fielding—The 'Adventures of Captain Greenland'—'Jack Connor'—'Chrysal; or, the Adventures of a Guinea' 71 CHAPTER V. Continental Rambles—A Stolen Trip to Paris—Residence at Weimar—Contributions to Albums—Burlesque State—German Sketches and Studies—The Weimar Theatre—Goethe—Souvenirs of the Saxon city—'Journal kept during a Visit to Germany' 89 xviii CHAPTER VI. Thackeray's Predilections for Art—A Student in Paris—First Steps in the Career—An Art Critic—Introduction to Marvy's 'English Landscape Painters'—Early Connection with Literature—Michael Angelo Titmarsh, a contributor to 'Fraser's Magazine'—French Caricature under Louis Philippe—Political Satires—A Young Artist's life in Paris—Growing Sympathy with Literature 114