CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Prefatory Letter BOOK FIRST. PAGE IX 13 17 30 CHAP. I. Jeremy enters the world with the proper CHAP. II. The importance of a name fully proved, CHAP. III. The mystery of rearing children laid open CHAP. IV. Jeremy enters school-and departs there- BOOK SECOND. CHAP. I. An experiment in Hydrostaticks, -37 45 CHAP. II. A much-ado-about-nothing,—with a dis- quisition on horseflesh, 47 CHAP. III. Portrait of Jeremy, 50 CHAP. IV. Jeremy becomes a man-gets into hot CHAP. V. Filial piety. The Blessings of Friend- 51 61 CHAP. VI. A lesson for Benevolence.-Jeremy proves a scoundrel to his benefactor-and is CHAP. VII. The Goose Tavern.-How to fill one's belly and call upon the mouth to discharge the reckoning. An amour of an exalted character is nipped in the bud by the discovery of double- dealing on the part of the lady. Arrival of a CHAP. VIII. A "Dramatic Sketch."-Jeremy finds a patron in the stranger—but has his prospects blighted by a horrid murder. He makes a nar- CHAP. IX. The newspaper editor. Justice Even. The murderers taken, and the body of the mur- dered discovered. Jeremy arrives at his uncle's CHAP. X. My uncle and my aunt. The reader is made thoroughly acquainted with them, . CHAP. XI. A night of sober reflection, CHAP. XII. Jeremy becomes a favourite with his uncle. The dinner party.—Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and the two Misses Fox-Mrs. Bulleye and little Bulleye-Gentility of the order of Fungi. An fancies himself in love, and by a necessary con- sequence grows poetical. The reader is treated with a splendid effusion, worthy of inscription on the sybilline leaves of the New-Monthly. Jere- my Levis the Father of Impassioned Poetry !— Literary Gazette. Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. Prophecy of famine in the world of letters. A review as it should be. A dream, CHAP. XIX. The two rings and the two jewellers, CHAP. XX. Jeremy grows sick of physic, CHAP. XXI. Our hero tired of his uncle Jeremy- quarrels with him—and leaves his protection— CHAP. XXIII. Jeremy is cured of his passion-after paying for it—as we do for all diseases, CHAP. XXIV. At the Bull tavern.-Jeremy is de- tained by a storm. The Reverend Malachi Snubbs, and a mysterious lady; Sir James Mait- land, Lieutenant Rattle, and Sergeant Splint ; Mr. Spits, and Mrs. Spits. Story of "The Bri- dal Night.” New light in the kitchen. Tom Drammer. My host's Tale. A frolic. Scene CHAP. XXV. Jeremy, leaving the Bull tavern, meets with an adventure on the road, which once more brings him into company with Sir James Mait- land and the fair Methodist, and seems to be the opening of a brighter day in his fortunes, CHAP. XXVI. The mystery of Mrs. Snubbs ex- plained. Jeremy finds himself in better society than he has hitherto been accustomed to fre- quent. Spirit of independence, CHAP. XXVII. Jeremy becomes virtuous-finds a CHAP. XXVIII. The Serenade, 376 CHAP. XXIX. The Declaration. A slip between 379 CHAP. XXX. The accident, that removes Jeremy so happy, brings him once more into union with 385 of Edward Clayton, 388 CHAP. XXXII. The execution, 395 CHAP. XXXIII. Jeremy learns kind old uncle and his aunt. A still deeper ca- the death of his 399 JEREMY LEVIS TO THE READER. INDULGENT READER: BEFORE thou beginnest the history of a life which God hath seen fit to visit with much vicissitude, I would have thee lend thy most diligent attention to the following simple caution.— Bear then well in mind, through the whole course of this work, that thou art not reading a book of adven tures, contrived merely for thy amusement and the author's profit—but the life of a being, neither above nor below the common line of mortality, whose misfortunes, brought upon him chiefly by his own folly, may prove to thee an instructive, while not uninteresting lesson. And be not offended that his most serious moods are often traversed by a strange vein o levity; for such, dear Reader, is the faithful transcript of his feelings. It would seem that some men cone into this world merely to weep, and others-merey to laugh. |