Prologue -- On some books and their associations -- An epistle to an editor -- Bramston's "Man of taste" -- The passionate printer to his love -- M. Rouquet on the arts -- The friend of humanity and the rhymer -- The parent's assistant -- A pleasant invective against printing -- Two modern book illustrators: I. Kate Greenaway -- A song of the Greenaway child -- Two modern book illustrators: II. Mr. Hugh Thomson -- Horatian ode on the tercentenary of "Don Quixote" -- The books of Samuel Rogers -- Pepys' "Diary" -- A French critic on Bath -- A welcome from the "Johnson club" -- Thackeray's "Esmond" -- A Miltonic exercise -- Fresh facts about Fielding -- The happy printer -- Cross readings--and Caleb Whitefoord -- The last proof.

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