Curiosities of Literature

by Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848)

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Volume Three

Articles first published in the third volume of the sixth edition (1817) of Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature.

1. The Pantomimical Characters
2. Extempore Comedies
3. Massinger, Milton, and the Italian Theatre
4. Songs of Trades, or Songs for the People
5. Introducers of Exotic Flowers, Fruits, &c.
6. Usurers of the Seventeenth Century
7. Chidiock Titchbourne
8. Elizabeth and her Parliament
9. Anecdotes of Prince Henry, the Son of James I., when a Child
10. The Diary of a Master of the Ceremonies
11. Diaries—Moral, Historical, and Critical
12. Licensers of the Press
13. Of Anagrams and Echo Verses
14. Orthography of Proper Names
15. Names of Our Streets
16. Secret History of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford
17. Ancient Cookery and Cooks
18. Ancient and Modern Saturnalia
19. Reliquiæ Gethinianæ
20. Robinson Crusoe
21. Catholic and Protestant Dramas
22. The History of the Theatre During its Suppression
23. Drinking-Customs in England
24. Literary Anecdotes
25. Condemned Poets
26. Acajou and Zirphile
27. Tom O’ Bedlams
28. Introduction of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate
29. Charles the First’s Love of the Fine Arts
30. The Secret History of Charles I. and his Queen Henrietta
31. The Minister—The Cardinal Duke of Richelieu
32. The Minister—Duke of Buckingham, Lord Admiral, Lord General, &c. &c. &c.
33. Felton, the Political Assassin
34. Johnson’s Hints for the Life of Pope

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