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[Illustration: (Index)]

Advice Gratis, 291, 305
After Dinner--at the Close of the Year, 1
After the Event, 268
"Airy Fairy Lilly 'Un!" 125
"All's (Fairly) Well," 189
"And a good Judge, too," 87
Anglo-American French, 108
Another Rural Conference, 37
Another Shakspeare, 133
Any Man to any Woman, 227
April Showers, 198
Archdeacon Answered (The), 310
"Are you Hansard now?" 133
'Arry Examined, 15
'Arry on Wheels, 217
Ars Longa, 221
Art in the City, 232
Atrabilious Liverpool, 6
Aspirations, 262
At Mrs. Ram's, 42
Attack on the "Capital" (The), 66

Bachelor's Growl (A), 294
Berlin Citizen's Diary (A), 190
Better and Better, 268
"Beyond the Dreams of Avarice," 161
Bird of Prey (A), 230
Blizzard from the North, 278
Boat-Race Day, 169
Bogie Man (The), 138
Bones of Joseph (The), 313
Bos _v_. Boss, 9
Bounds of Science (The), 182
Boxing Imbroglio (The), 39
Brawling at Home and Abroad, 179
Breaking, 186
Brer Fox and Old Man Crow, 281
Bridal Wreath (The), 42
Broken Bonds, 182
Brother Brush, A.R.A., 65
Brown-Jones Incident (The), 197
Burial of the "Broad Gauge" (The), 266
Burning Words, 237
"Butchered to make ----," 147
Butter and Bosh, 138
By a Small Western, 93
By One of the Unemployed, 289

Capital! 25
"Call you this Backing your Friends?" 218
Cardinal Manning, 39
"Cave Kanem!" 315
Change of Name suggested, 42
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 73
"Charles, his Friends," 83
Chef's New Dish for Travellers (The), 124
Chimes (The), 2
Christmas in Germany, 24
Churlish Cabman (The), 157
City Men, 94
"Clerk me no Clerks," 153
Climatic Nomenclature for the New Year, 6
Cockney Classics, 179
"Combining Amusement with Instruction," 100
"Come hither, Hubert!" 69
Coming of Ninety-Two, 6
Complicated Case, 89
Confessions of a Duffer, 35, 45, 49, 76, 97, 125, 141, 169, 202,
229, 256, 285
Connected with the Press, 189
Considerate