CHAPTER X.

Curious Authors from Thackeray's Library, indicating the course of his Readings -- Early Essayists illustrated with the Humourist's Pencillings -- Bishop Earle's 'Microcosmography; a piece of the World Characterised,' 1628 -- An 'Essay in Defence of the Female Sex,' 1697 -- Thackeray's Interest in Works on the Spiritual World -- 'Flagellum Dæmonum, et Fustis Dæmonum. Auctore R. P. F. Hieronymo Mengo,' 1727 -- 'La Magie et L'Astrologie,' par L. F. Alfred Maury -- 'Magic, Witchcraft, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, and Electro Biology,' by James Baird, 1852 186