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8. =HOGGARTY DIAMOND, YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS, AND BURLESQUES:=— The Great Hoggarty Diamond—Yellowplush Papers—Novels By Eminent Hands—Jeames's Diary—Adventures of Major Gahagan—A Legend of the Rhine—Rebecca and Rowena—The History of the Next French Revolution—Cox's Diary—The Fatal Boots.

9.—=THE BOOK OF SNOBS, AND SKETCHES OF LIFE & CHARACTER:=— The Book of Snobs—Sketches and Travels in London—Character Sketches—Men's Wives—the Fitzboodle Papers—The Bedford Row Conspiracy—A Little Dinner at Timmins's.

10.—=ROUNDABOUT PAPERS AND= LECTURES:— Roundabout Papers—The Four Georges—The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century—The Second Funeral of Napoleon.

11.—=CATHERINE, &c.= Catherine—Lovel the Widower—Denis Duval—Ballads—The Wolves and the Lamb—Critical Reviews—Little Travels and Roadside Sketches.

12.—=CHRISTMAS BOOKS:=— Mrs. Perkins's Ball—Dr. Birch—Our Street—The Kickleburys on the Rhine—The Rose and the Ring.

13.—=MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, SKETCHES, AND REVIEWS;= CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'PUNCH.'

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