w wherein the light best falls upon the canvas. "Do
not place yourself there," says the painter; "to judge of my composition
you must stand where I place you."

CONTENTS.

Book I.

CHAPTER I.
Of the Hero's Birth and Parentage.--Nothing can differ more from the
End of Things than their Beginning

CHAPTER II.
A Family Consultation.--A Priest, and an Era in Life

CHAPTER III.
A Change in Conduct and in Character: our evil Passions will some-
times produce good Effects; and on the contrary, an Alteration for
the better in Manners will, not unfrequently, have amongst its
Causes a little Corruption of Mind; for the Feelings are so blended
that, in suppressing those disagreeable to others, we often suppress
those which are amiable in themselves

CHAPTER IV.
A Contest of Art and a League of Friendship.--Two Characters in
mutual Ignorance of each other, and the Reader no wiser than
either of them

CHAPTER V.
Rural Hospitality.--An extraordinary Guest.--A Fine Gentleman is
not necessarily a Fool

CHAPTER VI.
A Dialogue, which might be dull if it were longer

CHAPTER VII.
A Change of Prospects.--A new Insight into the Character of the Hero.
--A Conference between two Brothers

CHAPTER VIII.
First Love

CHAPTER IX.
A Discovery and a Departure

CHAPTER X.
A very short Chapter,--containing a Valet

CHAPTER XI.
The Hero acquits himself honourably as a Coxcomb.--A Fine Lady of
the Eighteenth Century, and a fashionable Dialogue; the Substance
of fashionable Dialogue being in all Centuries the same

CHAPTER XII.
The Abbe's Return.--A Sword, and a Soliloquy

CHAPTER XIII.
A mysterious Letter.-A Duel.--The Departure of one of the Family

CHAPTER XIV.
Being a Chapter of Trifles

CHAPTER XV.
The Mother and Son.--Virtue should be the Sovereign of the Feelings,
not their Destroyer

Book II.

CHAPTER I.
The Hero in London.--Pleasure is often the shortest, as it is the
earliest road to Wisdom, and we may say of the World what Zeal-of-
the-Land-Busy says of the Pig-Booth, "We escape so much of the
other Vanities by our early Entering"

CHAPTER II.
Gay Scenes and Conversations.--The New Exchange and the Puppet-
Show.--The Actor, the Sexton, and the Beauty

CHAPTER III.
More Lions

CHAPTER IV.
An intellectual Adventure

CHAPTER V.
The Beau in his Den, and