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Title: Olla Podrida

Author: Frederick Marryat

Release Date: March 9, 2010 [EBook #31579]

Language: English

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OLLA PODRIDA

BY

CAPTAIN MARRYAT

[Illustration]

LONDON
J. M. DENT AND CO.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND CO.
MDCCCXCVI

Contents

THE MONK OF SEVILLE 1
_Metropolitan Magazine_, 1833.

THE GIPSY 85
_Metropolitan Magazine_, 1834.

ILL-WILL 159
_New Monthly Magazine_, 1837.

HOW TO WRITE A FASHIONABLE NOVEL 179
_Metropolitan Magazine_, 1833.

HOW TO WRITE A BOOK OF TRAVELS 200
_Metropolitan Magazine_ 1833, 1834.

HOW TO WRITE A ROMANCE 214
_Metropolitan Magazine_, 1835.

S.W. AND BY W. 3/4 W. 225

THE SKY-BLUE DOMINO 243
_New Monthly Magazine_, 1837.

MODERN TOWN HOUSES 260
_New Monthly Magazine_, 1837.

THE WAY TO BE HAPPY 275

THE LEGEND OF THE BELL ROCK 282

MOONSHINE 293

THE FAIRY'S WAND 313
_New Monthly Magazine_, 1840.

A RENCONTRE 328

Prefatory Note

This edition of _Olla Podrida_ does not include the "Diary on the
Continent" which appeared first in the _Metropolitan Magazine_ 1835-1836
as "The Diary of a _Blase_" continued in the _New Monthly Magazine_
1837, 1838, as "Confessions and opinions of Ralph the Restless." Marryat
himself described the "Diary" as "very good magazine stuff," and it has
no fitting place in an edition of his novels, from which the "Diary in
America" is also excluded.

The space thus created is occupied by "The Gipsy," "The Fairy's Wand,"
and "A Rencontre," which I have ventured to print here