*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
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*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Contents
Scotch rivers -- Salmon fishing -- Winter sports -- Human levitation -- A Chinaman's marriage -- Sieur de Montaigne -- Thackeray's drawings -- Golf -- Art of dining -- American humour -- Suspended animation -- Breaking up -- On shaving -- Street noises -- Lending of books -- Club bores -- Phiz -- Theory and practice of proposals -- Master Samuel Pepys -- Involuntary Bailees -- Summer nights -- On hypochondriacs -- Thackeray's London -- Torrid summer -- Western drolls -- Show Sunday -- The dry fly -- Amateur authors -- Some rare things for sale -- Curiosity hunting.