The Last Essays of Elia

Preface, by a Friend of the Late Elia

Blakesmoor in H——shire

Poor Relations

Stage Illusion

To the Shade of Elliston

Ellistoniana

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading

The Old Margate Hoy

The Convalescent

Sanity of True Genius

Captain Jackson

The Superannuated Man

The Genteel Style in Writing

Barbara S——

The Tombs in the Abbey

Amicus Redivivus

Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney

Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago

Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art

Rejoicings Upon the New Year's Coming of Age

The Wedding

The Child Angel

A Death-Bed

Old China

Popular Fallacies: That a Bully Is Always a Coward

Popular Fallacies: That Ill-Gotten Gain Never Prospers

Popular Fallacies: That a Man Must Not Laugh at His Own Jest

Popular Fallacies: That Such a One Shows His Breeding.—That It Is Easy to Perceive He Is No Gentleman

Popular Fallacies: That the Poor Copy the Vices of the Rich

Popular Fallacies: That Enough Is as Good as a Feast

Popular Fallacies: Of Two Disputants, the Warmest Is Generally in the Wrong

Popular Fallacies: That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation

Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns Are the Best

Popular Fallacies: That Handsome Is That Handsome Does

Popular Fallacies: That We Must Not Look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth

Popular Fallacies: That Home Is Home Though It Is Never So Homely

Popular Fallacies: That You Must Love Me, and Love My Dog

Popular Fallacies: That We Should Rise with the Lark

Popular Fallacies: That We Should Lie Down with the Lamb

Popular Fallacies: That a Sulky Temper Is a Misfortune