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DOCTOR OLDHAM
AT GREYSTONES,
1860
AND
HIS TALK THERE.
[By Caleb Sprague Henry]
со
De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND. COMPANY,
846 & 348 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
D. APPLETON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
The library table and Mrs. Oldham's opinion of it-Idea-images; the cau-
tion necessary in reducing them to feet and inches-Drawers made to
prevent husband and wife pulling together; yet serving to a more lov-
ing harmony-Shattered ideals-How Mrs. Oldham was like Sir Isaac
Newton's dog, and Doctor Oldham not like Sir Isaac-The wisdom of
nonsense,
CHAPTER II.
Which grows out of the inartistic way this book began; but gives the au-
thor a chance to speak of the courteous reader of the last age; and also
to explain himself to the courteous reader of the present day,
CHAPTER III.
Which comes between the last chapter and the next one-The reader may
omit if he will; but he will lose something if he does,
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CHAPTER IV.
The library not made for the table-The recess that was not realized and
the window that was-The library as finished-Doctor Oldham's opin-
ion about good company-He quotes Doctor Southey and discourses
about him,
CHAPTER V.
Greystones: and what Downing might have said if he had had the altering
of the plan of it,
CHAPTER VI.
Henry Reed-Coleridge on Wordsworth s verses-The Doctor's theory of
the distinction between man and the brutes, and also of the edible and
potable universe, as propounded to Professor Clare,
CHAPTER VII.
Short, if not sweet-Difference between the author and Rabelais, and some
other celebrated writers,
CHAPTER VIII.
The Doctor visits Mrs. Rossville's school-And tells his wife what he said
to the little folks there-Mr. Grim-How God takes care the children
shall not be hurt by bad catechisms,
CHAPTER IX.
More talk about children-The good Lord's contrivances to prevent their
being shut out of the world of fiction,
CHAPTER X.
Glimpses biographical and auto-biographical-With observations inter-
spersed that are worth a chapter in themselves,
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