CONTENTS
Book 1
I. The poles prelude
ii. The expedition by
moonlight
III. Wilfrid’s diplomacy
iv. Emilia’s first
trial in public
V. Emilia plays on the
cornet
vi. Emilia supplies the
key to herself and continues
her
performance
on the cornet
VII. Threats of A crisis
in the government of Brookfield:
And
of the virtue resident in
A tail-coat
viii. In which A big
drum speeds the march of
Emilia’s
history
IX. The rival clubs
X. The ladies of Brookfield
at school
Book 2
xi. In which we see
the magnanimity that is in
beer.
XII. Showing how sentiment
and passion take
the
disease of love
XIII. Contains A short discourse
on puppets
xiv. The Besworth question
XV. Wilfrid’s exhibition
of treachery
XVI. How the ladies of
Brookfield came to their resolve
xvii. In the woods
Book 3
XVIII. Return of the sentimentalist
into bondage
XIX. Life at Brookfield.
XX. By Wilming weir
XXI. Return of Mr. Pericles
XXII. The pitfall of sentiment
XXIII. Wilfrid diplomatizes
XXIV. Emilia makes A move
XXV. A farce within A farce
Book 4
XXVI. Suggests that the comic
mask has some kinship with
A skull
XXVII. Small life at Brookfield
XXVIII. Georgiana ford
XXIX. First scourging of the
fine shades
XXX. Of the double-man
in us, and the great fight
when
these are full-grown
XXXI. Besworth lawn
XXXII. The supper
XXXIII. Defeat and flight of
Mrs. Chump