CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.

BY

ISAAC DISRAELI.

A New Edition

EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES,

BY HIS SON,

THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
AND NEW YORK

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHARLES THE FIRST.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
THE DEATH OF CHARLES IX.
ROYAL PROMOTIONS.
NOBILITY.
MODES OF SALUTATION, AND AMICABLE CEREMONIES, OBSERVED IN VARIOUS NATIONS.
FIRE, AND THE ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS.
THE BIBLE PROHIBITED AND IMPROVED.
ORIGIN OF THE MATERIALS OF WRITING.
ANECDOTES OF EUROPEAN MANNERS.
THE EARLY DRAMA.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS.
A CONTRIVANCE IN DRAMATIC DIALOGUE.
THE COMEDY OF A MADMAN.
SOLITUDE.
LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS.
ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND.
RICHARDSON.
INFLUENCE OF A NAME.
THE JEWS OF YORK.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEAS.
ON THE CUSTOM OF KISSING HANDS.
POPES.
LITERARY COMPOSITION.
POETICAL IMITATIONS AND SIMILARITIES.
EXPLANATION OF THE FAC-SIMILE.
LITERARY FASHIONS.
THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS.
EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES.
MASSINGER, MILTON, AND THE ITALIAN THEATRE.
SONGS OF TRADES, OR SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE.
INTRODUCERS OF EXOTIC FLOWERS, FRUITS, ETC.
USURERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
CHIDIOCK TITCHBOURNE.
ELIZABETH AND HER PARLIAMENT.
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