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The various writings of Cornelius Mathews ..

Cornelius Mathews · 1843 · Scanned text

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Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Cornelius Mathews
Language
English
Published
1843
Length
331,732 words · about 23 h 14 min
Sections
99 reader sections
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Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
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Contents (99)
  1. Front matter about 5 min
  2. Contents under 1 min
  3. Act I 120 III 130 under 1 min
  4. Chapter I. The Platform 169 about 2 min
  5. Preface To The Third Edition about 5 h 31 min
  6. Preface about 2 min
  7. Part I about 1 h
  8. Part Second about 48 min
  9. SCENE I. The open street about 6 min
  10. SCENE II. A room in Gudgeon's house about 9 min
  11. Act II. Scene I about 10 min
  12. Scene III.] THE POLITICIANS about 5 min
  13. SCENE I. Gudgeon's house about 4 min
  14. SCENE II. JBlanding's Apartments about 1 min
  15. SCENE III. A public room about 5 min
  16. SCENE IV. Crumb's house about 2 min
  17. Scene V about 7 min
  18. SCENE I. The open street about 3 min
  19. SCENE II. The street about 2 min
  20. SCENE III. The same about 1 min
  21. Scene IV. Crowder about 3 min
  22. Scene V.] THE POLITICIANS about 3 min
  23. SCENE VI. Blanding's apartments about 2 min
  24. Scene VII.] THE POLITICIANS about 1 min
  25. SCENE VIII. A sick chamber, Baffin in an armchair, <£c about 2 min
  26. SCENE IX. The open street about 1 min
  27. Scene I about 1 min
  28. SCENE II. In front of Brisk' s house about 3 min
  29. SCENE III. In front of Gudgeon's house about 2 min
  30. SCENE IV. Crumb's house about 4 min
  31. SCENE V. The open street about 1 min
  32. SCENE VI. Brisk's house about 9 min
  33. II. The Father about 1 min
  34. III. The Teacher about 1 min
  35. IV. The Citizen about 3 min
  36. VI. The Mechanic about 1 min
  37. VII. The Merchant about 2 min
  38. IX. The Statesman about 1 min
  39. X. The Friend about 1 min
  40. XI. The Painter about 1 min
  41. XII. The Sculptor about 1 min
  42. XIII. The Journalist about 1 min
  43. XIV. The Masses about 1 min
  44. XV. The Reformer about 1 min
  45. XVI. The Poor Man about 1 min
  46. XVII. The Scholar about 1 min
  47. XVIII. The Preacher about 2 min
  48. XIX. The Poet about 8 min
  49. XX under 1 min
  50. XXI. " Through the far shadows of the gathering years under 1 min
  51. XXII under 1 min
  52. XXIII under 1 min
  53. XXIV under 1 min
  54. XXV under 1 min
  55. XXVI under 1 min
  56. XXVII under 1 min
  57. XXVIII under 1 min
  58. XXIX under 1 min
  59. XXX under 1 min
  60. XXXI under 1 min
  61. XXXII. The Spirit ceased and all along the air under 1 min
  62. XXXIII under 1 min
  63. XXXIV. Thenceforth I did not see the Spirit lift about 12 min
  64. Chapter II. Fiest Acquaintance With Hobbleshank about 13 min
  65. Chapter III. The Bottom Club about 11 min
  66. Chapter IV about 15 min
  67. Chapter V. The Auction Room about 13 min
  68. Chapter VI. The Vision Of The Coffin-maker's 'prentice about 13 min
  69. Chapter VII. Puffer Hopkins Receives An Appointment about 17 min
  70. Chapter VIII. Adventures Of Puffer As A Scourer about 19 min
  71. Chapter IX about 15 min
  72. CHAPTER X. HOBBLESHANK AT HIS LODGINCxS about 9 min
  73. Chapter XI about 11 min
  74. Chapter XII. A Further Acquaintance With Fob, The Tailor about 13 min
  75. Chapter XIII about 13 min
  76. Chapter XIV. Puffer Hopkins Encounters Hobbleshank Again about 16 min
  77. Chapter XV. Puffer Hopkins Inquires After Hobble- Shank about 10 min
  78. Chapter XVI. The Nominating Convention Hatch A Can- Didate about 17 min
  79. Chapter XVII. Certain Distinguished Persons Negotiate With The Newsboys about 18 min
  80. Chapter XVIII. Strange Matter ; Perhaps Not Without Method about 11 min
  81. Chapter XIX. The Pale Traveller Enters The City about 6 min
  82. Chapter XX. Fob And His Visiter From The Country about 11 min
  83. Chapter XXI. Ishmael Small Makes A Discovery about 10 min
  84. Chapter XXII about 13 min
  85. Chapter XXIII. Puffer Hopkins Inquires Again After Hobbleshank about 13 min
  86. Chapter XXIV. The Charter Election about 15 min
  87. CHAPTER XXV, THE END OF L>CMPr about 12 min
  88. Chapter XXVI about 9 min
  89. Chapter XXVII about 22 min
  90. Chapter XXIX. The Round-rimmers' Complimentary Ball about 21 min
  91. Chapter XXX about 16 min
  92. Chapter XXXI. Puffer Hopkins Improves An Acquaint- Ance about 13 min
  93. Chapter XXXII. The Death Of Fob about 14 min
  94. Chapter XXXIII. Puffer Is Nominated To The American Con- Gress about 10 min
  95. Chapter XXXIV. He Dines With The Magistrates about 14 min
  96. Chapter XXXV about 30 min
  97. Chapter XXXVI. The Jury-room about 26 min
  98. Chapter Xxxviii. The Night Procession about 17 min
  99. Chapter XXXIX. Hobbleshank And Puffer Hopkins Visit The Farm-house about 5 h 3 min
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Front matter

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THE

Contents

Page.

General Introduction 5

THE MOTLEY BOOK.

Act I 120 III 130

POEMS ON MAN IN THE REPUBLIC.

I. The Child 153

II. The Father 153

III. The Teacher 154

IV. The Citizen 154

V. The Farmer 154

VI. The Mechanic 155

VII The Merchant 155

VIII. The Soldier 156

IX. The Statesman 156

X. The Friend 156

XL The Painter 157

XII. The Sculptor 157

XIII. The Journalist 157

XIV. The Masses 158

XV. The Reformer 158

XVI. The Poor Man 159

XVII. The Scholar 159

XVIII. The Preacher 159

XIX. The Poet 160

WAKONDAH, the Master of Like ... 161

Page.

THE CAREER OF PUFFER HOPKINS.

Preface 169

Chapter I. The Platform 169

II. First Acquaintance with Hobbleshank 172

III. The Bottom Club 175

IV. Mr. Fyler Close and his Custom-

ers 177

V. The Auction-Room 181

VI. The Vision of the Coffin-maker's 'Prentice 184

VII. Puffer Hopkins receives an appointment , 187

VIII. Adventures of Puffer as a Scourer 191

IX. An Entertainment at Mr. Fish-

blatt's 195

X. Hobbleshank at his Lodgings. . 199 XI. Leycraft rambles pleasantly

about 201

XII. A further Acquaintance with

Fob the Tailor 203

XIII. The Economy of Mr. Fyler

Close and Ishmael Small 206

XIV. Puffer Hopkins encounters Hob-

bleshank again 209

XV. Puffer Hopkins inquires after

Hobbleshank 213

XVI. The Nominating Convention

hatch a Candidate 215

XVII. Certain distinguished persons negotiate with the Newsboys 219

XVIII. Strange matter, perhaps not

without a method 223

XIX. The Pale Traveller enters the

City 225

XX. Fob and his Visiter from the

country 227

XXI. Ishmael Small makes a Discovery 229

XXII. Mr. Fyler Close invokes the aid

of Mr. Meagrim and the Law 232

XXIII. Puffer Hopkins inquires again

after Hobbleshank 235

XXIV. The Charter Election 238

XXV. The End of Leycraft 2 11

XXVI. Hobbleshank's return 2 11

XXVII. A notable scheme of Mr. Fyler

Close's 216

XXVIII. The Burning of Close's Row. .2 ID XXIX. The Round Rummers1 Complimentary Ball 251

XXX. Mr. Fishblatt's Newa-Boom...256 XXXI. Puffer Hopkins improves an ac-

quaintanee 259

XXXII. The Death of Fob 269

Vlll

CONTENTS.

Page.

XXXIII. Puffer is nominated to the Ame-

rican Congress 266

XXXIV. He Dines with the Magistrates 268 XXXV. The Trial of Mr. Fyler Close. .271

XXXVI. The Jury-Room 278

XXXVII. Mr. Close's last Speculation. . .281

XXXVIII. The Night Procession 284

XXXIX. Hobbleshank and Puffer Hopkins visit the Farm-House. . .288

MISCELLANIES.

The True Aims of Life 295

Jeduthan Hobbs 307

The late Ben Smith, Loafer 309

An Argument against Clothing 311

Solomon Quigg 313

The Ubiquitous Negro 314

Political Life 319

Mr. James Grant 325

The Solemn Vendue 327

Citizenship 328

Every Fourth Year 330

The Field Death 334

The School Fund 338

The School Fund again 341

Our Illustrious Predecessors 346

The First Presidential Death 348

A Movement in Clerkdom 350

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.

A Speech on International Copyright 355

An Appeal to American Authors and the

American Press 358

A Lecture on International Copyright 362

THE MOTLEY BOOK.

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