ank's _Bottle_ 384
Profits of _Dombey_ 385
Time come for savings 385
Proposed edition of old novels 385
Another dropped design 386
The Praslin tragedy 386
Penalty for seeing before others 387
Street-music 387
Margate theatre and manager 387
As to Christmas book 388
Delay found necessary 389
A literary Kitely 389
Meetings at Leeds and Glasgow 390
Book-friends 391
Sheriff Alison 391
Hospitable welcome 391
Scott-monument 392
Purchase of Shakespeare's house 392
Scheme to benefit Knowles 393
Plays rehearsed 394
_Merry Wives_ chosen 394
Performances and result 394
At Knebworth-park 395
Guild of Literature and Art 396
Unfortunate omission 396
The farce that was to be written 396
The farce that was substituted 397
_Not so Bad as we Seem_ 397
Travelling theatre and scenes 398
Success of the comedy 398
An incident at Sunderland 399
Troubles of a manager 399
Acting under difficulties 400
Scenery overturned 401
Effects of fright 401
Mr. Wilkie Collins 402

CHAPTER XVIII. 1848-1851.

Pages 403-441.

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Louis Philippe dethroned 403
French missive fro