33
Dangers of autobiography 34
Design of David's character 35
Why books continue 36
The storm and shipwreck 37
Goethe on the insane 38
The two heroines 39
Risks not worth running 40
Devonshire Terrace 41
_Bleak House_ 43
Defects of the novel 44
Set-offs and successes 45
Value of critical judgments 46
The contact of extremes 47
Dean Ramsay on Jo 48
Town graves 49
One last friend 49
Truth of Gridley's case 50

CHAPTER II. 1853-1855.

Pages 51-75.

HOME INCIDENTS AND HARD TIMES. AET. 41-43.

Titles proposed for _Bleak House_ 52
Restlessness 52
Tavistock House 53
Last child born 54
A young stage aspirant 54
Deaths of friends 55
At Boulogne 55
Publishing agreements 56
At Birmingham 56
Self-changes 57
Employments in Boulogne 59
First reading in public 60
Argument against paid readings 61
Children's theatricals 62
Mr. H. in _Tom Thumb_ 62
Dickens in Fortunio 63
Titles for a new story 65
Difficulties of weekly parts 66
Mr. Ruskin on _Hard Times_ 67
Truths enforced