Velschius' work on Persian dates jestingly mentioned

Shelley and R. Montgomery humorously compared

Bishop Butler on mass lunacy

Poe and Livy on Hannibal's Italian route

Horace Smith: his looks and books

epigrams and fencing-foils: both pointed

Dante's Purgatory: not the ultimate place

why music affects us to tears

Voltaire on one God

Man, innately rational, is civilized in the natural state

literature: largely comprised of the works of little people

Ainsworth: his nonsensical Latin and Greek sprinklings

one of Plutarch's Lives humorously noted

Mary Magdalen slander refuted

hyperism in German titles and Olympic games prizes

music as the science of sound is not grasped by Chorley and musicians

J. Grant: trivial in his facts

adaptation and plot construction: human and divine forms contrasted

J. Montgomery on Oriental tales quoted and derided

the tragic power of Dickens, too often ignored

Duncan's theological work — naive in use of “prophecy”

mocking allusions to scientific titles and theories

Women must be criticized even more gently than men

Tom Paine's work — clever and impudent

Germans currently addicted to history — writing

High birth is undervalued by democrats

Speed-writing, better for comprehension, eventually may be widely taught

Necessity produces inventions

Gibbon's style condemned for its three principles

the destructive bigotry of Bristed (?)

Truth, though casually spoken, is often neglected in history, where expected.

analogy given between effect on body of light and sound

Books should begin well

handwriting as indicator of character and mental habits

plagiarism by literary men scorned

An incomplete Hebrew biblical text, emended, solves a crux

Brougham's criticism of J. Randolph ill-taken

Lardner's borrowed lore on astronomical magnitudes extremely faulty

A book, title given, proves the strangeness of truth

An inconsiderable poem yields worthy passages

the force of assonance, too often overlooked, shown in Comas

Moore's poetical writing praised with reservations

Poe deprecates the writer's faithful depiction of ugliness.

Tennyson praised for truly poetic effect [page xlix:]

Writers of genius must choose their own subjects

L. Sterne (sic) and C. Colton derive their ideas from precursors

Philologists choose wit over truth for derivations

odors: effect differs from other senses

Buwer's debt in Last Days to Arnay unacknowledged

La Harpe justly praises Racine's skill

Volney's evaluation of life at its end

women novelists, exemplified by Lady Fullerton's new novel unusually competent for a woman

polytheism, both modern and ancient, confused even about deities' gender

striking optic effects in a German Macbeth

Moses' use of the singular and plural of Eloah

Novels exert beneficial, even moral effects through imitation

ancient view on soul's equine trip to heaven

M. Masson's novel a vile work

Books can intentionally “suggest” by hints and omissions

Sallust quoted on kingship

Macaulay corrected on first periodical moral essay

Solomon as author of the Iliad

Mill's and Bentham's a priori arguments on government are fallacious

Satyre Ménippée similar to Butler's Hudibras

Flaminius' quoted Latin shows a concord of sound and sense

similarities between Gould's and Howitt's verses

C. Webbe's Lamb-like essays tiresomely mannered

Austin's Essay on a Future State aptly avoids rational arguments

humorous physiognomical definition of gentleman

Some minds must know and show how things are done

Poe laughs at Jonah in German hexameters

the multilanguage, imitative origins of the British Spy

Bulwer's style in Night and Morning too involute

Simms' writings quoted for inaccurate style

Cowley's Davideis — a witticism

Poe finds error in an almost perfect Camöens (sic) book

Bulwer's sentimental idea of the smiling dead

Tieck surpassed Brougham in misapplying quotations

Hawthorne: a true genius but desperate mannerist and a borrower

Dickens' and Buwer's petty grammatical errors

The French infuse Gallic rhythm into English verse

a complex plot without interdependence cited

J. Montgomery's exaggerated style deprecated

Baden's Danish imitations of classical metres tolerable

Malibran's well — deserved acclaim

Certain Voltaire volumes deserve burning

pun on poor reasoning

early dates of three English magazines traced

comment on magazine article plagiarisms

comment on wrong attributions of Latin tags

“Jehovah” not a Hebrew word

Macaulay overrates Tickell, ignoring his borrowings from Boileau

humorous comment on decline of reputation

humorous comment on reaching the end

Curran's overpowering style [page l:]

English magazine's measured praise of W. Godwin cited

Rhododaphne quoted for musicality

Fouqué's Undine: a beautiful book with a hidden theme about second marriage

E. Wilkinson's Revolutionary War memories derided

the plagiarism of Mathias' Pursuits by the Monthly Register

pun on Griswold's hard head

etymology of “high — binder” traced

“musquitoes” as frustrating American genius

A. Welby's poetry quoted and analyzed as passionate, but unoriginal

Adam called “first scientist” on Vatican portrait

Simms' “Indian Serenade” quoted as meritorious

conundrum: a fable of the fox

The mob's credulity and the philosopher's skepticism of yesteryear now are reversed

Coleridge's Table Talk is really Table Preachings

Bulwer, talented and trained, could never produce the masterpiece of the genius Dickens

a vulgarism common to both Latin and Smollett

simple ancient Greek oratory inferior to today's

erroneous authorship for novel Miserrimus given

T. C. Grattan, circumlocutory and wordy, badly depicted in a print

biblical lore on impenetrable Edom contrasted with Keith's views on prophecy

H. W. Herbert, better in his verses than his wordy strained prose

Bulwer's style excessively involute

Men of genius need constructiveness and energy or industry for productions

Originality, formerly decried in America, alienates the enviously mediocre

Chinese and European drama compared for conventions

“Fortune,” basic to Greek drama, is unmentioned in Iliad

Lowell's book errs — that a knowing critic could not create

Griswold's book makes him into Anacharsis Clootz

Mill's “demonstrated propositions” derogated

a proverb on thick skulls

postulate: our chance of afterlife indicated by the quality of our slumber or swoons

Pythagoras' definition of beauty hinted in U.S. motto

a geographic book, full of Germanic statistics

Mancur's novel — tediously lengthy

Despite Swedenborgians' belief, Poe labels “Mesmeric Revelation” fictitious

apparent decline of drama due to imitative element

J. Montgomery unselfconsciously deprecates “Ossian.”

English attempts at Greek hexameters (Sidney's) absurd, unlike Poe's sample

Personification in Longfellow's “Proem” is faulty

words considered as murderous things

reality defined in relation to real estate

Voltaire's preface to Brutus cited

Longfellow's mosaic of plagiarisms like Tasso's

eleven pairs of verse plagiarized in famous writers paralleled

The sensitive poet assimilates and imitates others' excellent passages. [page li:]

Lack of international copyright crushes literary genius and promotes insipid productions

Longfellow's “Pröem” is slipshod in rhythm and thought, but all consistent

need for honest, censorious critics with standards

Scots as God's tongue humorously proposed

Concise magazine articles indicate increase in direct, rapid thought

joke on a wit's function

allegorical fable applied to inept critics

Hudson's lectures pointlessly employ antithesis

Like music, poetic elements rely on mathematical equality and unexpectedness

popular witticism about Louis XV's equestrian statue

Puckle quoted as speaking of the dead

Fancies can be concretized by the power of words

Tertullian paradox wrongly attributed to Browne by Hudson

German words for poetry agree with Bielfeld's French definition

Plutarch thinks senseless an epigram on Diana

In Thomas Hague are combined an astrological quack and an ass

The ideas of man and mankind are cyclical

Poe agrees with Gosselin on Hanno's furthest landing

medicine's drugging system as similar to Christian penance

H. Cary, American poet, as a good essayist

Voltaire quoted on British political prejudices

plagiarism of T. Hood by Aldrich

Bush's Anastasis on rebirth: logical treatise on wild premises

Gillespie's Rome: an entertaining set of impressions

Johnson quoted on personal abuse

German apothegm on art disputed

the rant and cant of Carlyle in Hero-Worship

Cheever's anthology of poetry commonplace

Street's descriptive poetry lacks spirit

Poe refutes the plagiarism charges against the learned, accurate classicist Anthon

W. W. Lord's poems are largely plagiarisms

Lady Morgan's faulty style misleads a translator

an obvious truth, often ignored: drama has not declined, but advanced little

Fourierite newspaper derided for its name and readership

W. G. Simms' Areytos quoted and praised

German taste morbid in admiring Werter

Cranch's poetry: transcendental, but in one quoted example artistic though blemished

Sue's Mysteries of Paris — book and translation imperfect

Bulwer's Lady of Lyons — a successful but defective drama

I. Disraeli too concerned with subject to tighten style

Poetry analysis based on mathematical quantity would improve even masterpieces

Newnham's book on mesmerism fallacious in premises, not in its conclusion

Fouqué's Thiodulf represents simple — minded, unsettled German taste and criticism

magazine literature suited for the rush of our day

Roger Bacon anticipated J.Espy's weather theory. [page lii:]

America needs a new, distinctive, euphonious name, such as Appalachia

courage needed to admit cowardice

Greek plays, such as Antigone, show inexperience, simplicity, unlike sculpture

Genius vacillates between ambition to excel and inadequate effort through scorn or indifference

R. W. Emerson — an imitator of Carlyle, like Sallust and Aruntius

Genius appears in deepest despair just before success

Genius requires moral matter in motion

Poe corrects Bristed on the mechanics of verse, the same in all tongues

characteristics of the conversation of genius

Coleridge's astronomical slip

No man dares to write and publish his complete confession of self

misinformation about rhetorician's rules in Hudibras

A new Baconian idol is needed for reasoning in a circle, about reason itself

the need for a treatise on punctuation — meanwhile, the dash discussed

plagiarism of Channing's article by New Monthly Magazine proved by Poe

Profound thoughts on God and the soul resemble the merely sentimental

Poe's mesmeric tales deemed nonfiction by British journals mocked in turn by Poe

E. Barrett's Drama of Exile has a vigorous passage — cited.

Effective song lyrics require the indefinitiveness of music — basic to such popular verses as those of G. P. Morris

T. C. Grattan's book circles around its subject, like a gossip

plagiarism of Felicia Hemans' “Hymn” by R. W. Dodson

Osborn's Confessions of a Poet powerful without roughness

B. Tucker's noble novel cannot expect adequate recognition in the prejudiced North American Review

anecdote about a flashily learned youth, exposed through his cribbed sources

plagiarism by G. Hill of Southerner E. C. Pinkney's “Health”

Mrs. Osgood's poetry remarkable for its grace

T. B. Read, a true but faulty poet, copies the copyist Longfellow

Poe would be insulted, if evaluated by the North American Review

Bayard Taylor's skilful, imaginative poetry quoted and defended

Shelley, sincere and original, led to the acme — Tennyson

W. W. Lord's two plagiarisms from Poe

evil in man illogically excused in L. Osborn's Alla-Ad-Deep

John Neal: a genius without constructive sense

The critic and the criticized properly should be named in magazine reviewing

Grammatical inversion, an unpardonable poetic license, enfeebles poetry

epigram — doggerel on Poe's and Green's criticism of Coxe's Saul

Imagination makes new compounds of beauty and deformity

Ward's hyperbole on Buwer's genius denied — mere talent and energy

E. Barrett quoted for quaintness and affection [page liii:]

quip on brainless deviltry

To a genius “the difficult” is “the impossible.”

Only St. Francis could uplift modern men

The mob can be led by its imagination

S. Butler's definition of a rabble suits the U. S. Congress

Americans worship the dollar — as one-tenth eagle

Aspiring reformers usually fall below ordinary men

a sharp eye needed to see man as dignified

In a future existence the present will seem a dream

a distinction made between a people and a mob

Expectations alter behavior of scoundrels and gentlemen

moral courage a misnomer

villainy a surer path to worldly success than virtue

A snobbish writer incorrectly capitalizes king and monarch

Complete knowledge of man's heart leads to despair

genius and moral nobility closely related

“Music of the spheres” and “mosaic” properly mean proportion or harmony — to Plato and us.

L. G. Clark: unremarkable and dull

Derogation of Van Buren shows changing word meaning

a true system of philosophy impossible

Mere imitation of nature is not art

Anacreon is extant only for academic reasons

Hegel's view: philosophy's uselessness makes it estimable

Beranger cited for man's optimism and ingenuity

The highly gifted must be misunderstood and mistreated by the commonalty

The Muses, when invoked, forsake the poem

The German for “sky-rocket” fits Boston criticism

disagreement on the rightness of popular taste

the hellishness of our world to the eye of reason

vengeance seen as justice, even by men of pride and conscience

Latin pun on quail

the error of being a citizen only of the world, not of the universe

The motto of the bell, Great Tom, suits Carlyle-ists

word play on the iron or gold points of Paulus Jovius' pen

pun on the name of Preserved Fish

a speaker's eloquence deprecated by a Cicero witticism

pun on H. Walpole's concept of grace

the number of adherents no criterion of a religion or philosophy

pun on trees and “tres” (Latin) for Gothic church arches

F. Bacon's ameliorative reform contrasted with reformer's oppositionism

Feelings about charity at death argue for Christianity

Latin pun on Demosthenes

travellers' accounts of celebrities mostly lies

Analytic reflection on the method of art distracts from its major purpose

Modern mass reform and anti — pleasure laws are related

Like Chinese, romance — writers should begin books at the end

Mathews' book will be unread.

The printing error in Mathews' book: its being published

Mozart's final awareness of music's capacity; our hope: the Spasmodists' awareness of its incapacity [page liv:]

Magazine poets adopt Ferrar's attempted “perpetual chant.”

apt construction more important and obvious in tales than in novels

Dupin's commonly understood language the opposite of Bostonian esoteric utterance

a Latin joke on the people's voice

plain — speaking about American literature needed

Montaigne's need to think before writing, despite his quip

fable of Reynard the fox used to condemn Mathews' play

American critics should know their own language

Few of our artists are too natural

Mathews' desire for critical notice — afterwards resented

Attacking great men magnifies the little

The increasing bluestockings need to be reduced through deft criticism

Opera choruses suggest Sophocles' turkey chorus

Chinese and Greeks locate soul in stomach or chest

Mathews' literary failures seem intentional

Lawson's play deprecated via Macbeth and an opera

Silk Buckingham's travelogues mocked

Carlyle's next book predicted slightingly

Wm. Wallace's poetry quoted with praise

The puns in T. Hood's fantastic, original works represent his despondency