An ancient American cousin, who has the look of a Holbein subject, is such a success in London that the relative who brought her over as her companion, to be a foil, sends her back again. To the painter who narrates the story the attention has spoiled the old lady.

Roundabout papers. On a lazy idle boy ; On two children in black ; On ribbons ; On some late great Victorians ; Thorns in the cushion ; On screens in dining-rooms ; Tunbridge toys ; De juventute ; On a joke I once heard from the late Thomas Hood ; Round about the Christmas tree ; On a chalk-mark on the door ; On being found out ; On a hundred years hence ; Small-beer chronicle ; Ogres ; On two roundabout papers which I intend to write ; A Mississippi bubble ; On Lett's diary ; Notes of a week's holiday ; Nil nisi bonum ; On half a loaf : a letter to Messrs. Broadway, Battery and Co., of New York, Bankers ; The notch on the Axe : a story à la mode ; De finibus ; On a peal of bells ; On a pear-tree ; Dessein's ; On some carp at Sans Souci ; Autour de mon chapeau ; On Alexandrines : a letter to some country cousins ; On a medal of George the Fourth ; "Strange to say, on Club Paper" ; The last sketch -- The second funeral of Napolean. On the disinterment of Napoleon at St. Helena ; On the voyage from St. Helena to Paris ; On the funeral ceremony -- Critical reviews. George Cruikshank ; John Leech's pictures of life and character.