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- Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
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This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tour around literature, with a dash of history and politics here and there. The subjects are so varied that all listeners can count on learning something new.
- Chapters
- 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
- Anecdotes of Prince Henry, the Son of James I, when a Child
- The Diary of a Master of the Ceremonies
- Diaries - Moral, Historical, and Critical
- Licensers of the Press
- Of Anagrams and Echo Verses
- Orthography of Proper Names
- Names of Our Streets
- Secret History of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford
- Ancient Cookery, and Cooks
- Ancient and Modern Saturnalia
- Reliquiae Gethinianae
- Robinson Crusoe
- Catholic and Protestant Dramas
- The History of the Theatre during its Suppression
- Drinking-Customs in England
- Literary Anecdotes
- Condemned Poets
- Acajou and Zirphile
- Tom o' Bedlams
- Introduction of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate
- Charles the First's Love of the Fine Arts
- Secret History of Charles the First, and his Queen Henrietta
- The Minister - the Cardinal Duke of Richelieu
- The Minister - Duke of Buckingham, Lord Admiral, Lord General, etc. etc. etc.
- Felton, the Political Assassin
- Johnson's Hints for the Life of Pope
- Modern Literature - Bayle's Critical Dictionary
- Characteristics of Bayle
- Cicero Viewed as a Collector
- The History of the Caracci
- An English Academy of Literature
- Quotation
- The Origin of Dante's Inferno
- Of a History of Events which have not Happened
- Of False Political Reports
- Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts
- Parodies
- Anecdotes of the Fairfax Family
- Medicine and Morals
- Psalm-Singing
- On the Ridiculous Titles Assumed by Italian Academies
- On the Hero of Hudibras, Butler Vindicated
- Shenstone's School-Mistress
- Ben Johnson on Translation
- The Loves of 'The Lady Arabella'
- Domestic History of Sir Edward Coke
- Of Coke's Style, and his Conduct
- Secret History of Authors who have Ruined their Booksellers