Klem, Mrs. His wife; an elderly woman, laboring under a chronic sniff, and having a dejected consciousness that she is not justified in appearing on the surface of the earth. XVI. Arcadian London.

Klem, Miss.

Their daughter, apparently ten years older than either her father or mother. XVI. Arcadian London. Mellows, Mr. J. Landlord of the "Dolphin's Head." XXII. An Old Stage-Coaching House.

Mercy. A nurse who relates diabolical stories to the Uncommercial Traveller, when a child, with a fiendish enjoyment of his terrors. XV. Nurse's Stories.

Mitts, Mrs. A pensioner at Titbull's; a tidy, well-favored widow, with a propitiatory way of passing her hands over and under one another. XXVII. Titbull's Almshouses.

Murderer, Captain. A diabolical wretch, admitted into the best society, and possessing immense wealth. His mission is matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides. XV. Nurse's Stories.

Nan. A sailor's mistress. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. Onowenever, Mrs. Mother of a young lady (the Dora Spenlow of "David Copperfield," and the Flora Finching of "Little Dorrit") ardently loved by the Uncommercial Traveller in his youth. It is unnecessary to name her more particularly. She was older than I, and had pervaded every chink and crevice of my mind for three or four years. I had held volumes of imaginary conversations with her mother on the subject of our union; and I had written letters, more in number than Horace Walpole's, to that discreet woman, soliciting her daughter's hand in marriage. I had never had the remotest intention of sending any of those letters; but to write them, and after a few days tear them up, had been a sublime occupation. XIX. Birthday Celebrations. Pangloss. An official friend of the Uncommercial Traveller's, lineally descended from the learned doctor of the same name, who was tutor to Candide.

In his personal character he is as humane and worthy a gentleman as any I know; in his official capacity, he unfortunately preaches the doctrines of his renowned ancestor, by demonstrating, on all occasions, that we live in the best of all possible official worlds. VIII. The Great Tasmania's Cargo.

Parkle, Mr. A friend of the Uncommercial Traveller's. XIV. -Chambers.

Poodles. A comical mongrel dog, found starving at the door of the "East London Children's Hospital," and taken in and fed, since which he has made it his home. On his neck he wears a

collar presented him by an admirer of his mental endowments, and bearing the legend, "Judge not Poodles by external appearances."

I find him making the round of the beds, like a house-surgeon, attended by another dog, a friend, who appears to trot about with him in the character of his pupil-dresser. Poodles is anxious to make me known to a pretty little girl, looking wonderfully healthy, who has had a leg taken off for cancer of the knee. "A difficult operation," Poodles intimates, wagging his tail on the counterpane, "but perfectly successful, as you see, dear sir." The patient, patting Poodles, adds, with a smile, "The leg was so much trouble to me, that I am glad it's gone." I never saw anything in doggery finer than the deportment of Poodles when another little girl opens her mouth to show a peculiar enlargement of the tongue. Poodles (at that time on a table, to be on a level with the occasion) looks at the tongue (with his own sympathetically out) so very gravely and knowingly, that I feel inclined to put my hand on my waistcoat-pocket, and give him a guinea, wrapped in paper. XXIX. A Small Star in the East; XXXIII. On an Amateur Beat.

Quickear. A policeman. V. Poor Mercantile Jack.

Quinch, Mrs. The oldest pensioner at Titbull's; a woman who has "totally lost her head." XXVII. Titbull's Almshouses.

Refractory, Chief. A surly, discontented female pauper, with a voice in which the tonsils and uvula have gained a diseased ascendency. III. Wapping Workhouse.

Refractory, Number Two. Another pauper of the same character. III. Wapping Workhouse.

Saggers, Mrs. One of the oldest pensioners at Titbull's, who has split the small community in which she lives into almost as many parties as there are dwellings in the precinct, by standing her pail outside her dwelling. XXVII. Titbull's Almshouses. Salcy, P., Family. A troupe of dramatic artists, fifteen in number, under the management of Monsieur P. Salcy. XXV. In the French-Flemish Country.

Sharpeye. A policeman. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. Specks, Joe. An old school-fellow of the Uncommercial Traveller; afterwards a physician in Dullborough (where most of us come from who come from a country town). XII. Dullborough Town. Specks, Mrs. His wife, formerly Lucy Green; an old friend of the Uncommercial Traveller's. XII. Dullborough Town. Squires, Olympia. An old flame of the Uncommercial Traveller's.

Olympia was most beautiful (of course); and I loved her to

that degree that I used to be obliged to get out of my little bed in the night, expressly to exclaim to Solitude, "O Olympia Squires!" XIX. Birthday Celebrations.

Straudenheim. A shop-keeper at Strasbourg; a large-lipped, pear-nosed old man, with white hair and keen eyes, though nearsighted. VII. Travelling Abroad.

Sweeney, Mrs. A professional laundress, in figure extremely like an old family umbrella. XIV. Chambers.

Testator, Mr. An occupant of a very dreary set of chambers, in Lyon's Inn, which he furnishes with articles he finds locked up in one of the cellars, and having no owner, so far as is known to any He is afterwards visited, late at night, by a man considerably sodden with liquor, who examines every article, claims them all as his own, and promises to call again the next morning, punctually at ten o'clock, but who fails to do so.

one.

Whether he was a ghost, or a spectral illusion of conscience, or a drunken man who had no business there, or the drunken, rightful owner of the furniture, with a transitory gleam of memory; whether he got safe home, or had no home to get to; whether he died of liquor on the way, or lived in liquor ever afterwards, he never was heard of more. XIV. Chambers.

Trampfoot. A policeman. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. Ventriloquist, Monsieur the. A performer attached to a booth at a fair. He is a thin and sallow man of a weakly aspect. XXV. In the French-Flemish Country.

Victualler, Mr. Licensed. Proprietor of a singing-house frequented by sailors; a sharp and watchful man, with tight lips, and a complete edition of Cocker's arithmetic in each eye. V. Poor Mercantile Jack.

Wackley, Mr. A coroner; a noble, patient, and humane man.
XVIII. Some Recollections of Mortality.
Weedle, Anastasia.

A pretty Mormon emigrant, elected by universal suffrage the beauty of the ship. XX. Bound for the Great Salt Lake.

Wiltshire. A simple, fresh-colored farm-laborer, of eight and thirty. XX. Bound for the Great Salt Lake.

PLAYS, POEMS, AND MISCELLANIES

INDEX TO CHARACTERS

THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN

Brown, Miss Emily. A young lady beloved by both Mr. Trott (the Strange Gentleman) and Mr. Tinkles, but married to the latter.

Dobbs, Miss Julia. A wealthy woman, formerly engaged to be married to a Mr. Woolley, who died, leaving her his property, free from all incumbrances; the incumbrance of himself as a husband not being among the least. Being desperately in want of a young husband, she falls in love with a certain wild and not very strongminded nobleman, Lord Peter, who engages to run away with her to Gretna, and be married. He fails to keep the appointment, however; and she gives her hand to Mr. Trott (the Strange Gentleman) instead.

John.

A waiter at the St. James's Arms.

Johnson, John. A hare-brained mad-cap enamored of Miss Mary Wilson, with whom he starts for Gretna Green, but is temporarily detained at the St. James's Arms by his thoughtless liberality to the post-boys, which leaves him absolutely penniless. A timely loan, however, enables him to continue his journey. Noakes, Mrs. Landlady of the St. James's Arms. Overton, Mr. Owen.

An attorney, who is mayor of the small

town in which is the St. James's Arms.

Peter, Lord.

A sprig of nobility, very wild, but not very sagacious or strong-minded, who is in love with Miss Julia Dobbs—or her handsome fortune.

Sparks, Tom. "Boots" at the St. James's Arms.

Strange Gentleman, The. See TROTT, MR. Walker. Tomkins, Charles. A young gentleman in love with Miss Fanny Wilson. He has arranged to run away with her to Gretna Green, and meets her for this purpose at the St. James's Arms. As he has agreed not to disclose his name, she imagines that the Strange Gentleman, staying at that house, and rumored to be insane, but whom she has not seen, is her lover. When she meets Mr. Tomkins, therefore, she acts upon the presumption that he is actually

out of his head; and her conduct seems to him so strange, that he suspects her of playing him false, and works himself up into a tempest of jealousy, which only serves to confirm her belief in his lunacy. They are both, however, disabused at last, and set off, without delay, for their original destination. Trott, Mr. Walker, called THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN. A young man desirous of marrying Miss Emily Brown, but deterred by the hostile attitude of Mr. Horatio Tinkles, who challenges him to mortal combat (on Corpse Common) for daring to think of such a thing. He accepts the challenge in a bloodthirsty note, but immediately sends another, and an anonymous one, to the mayor urging that a Strange Gentleman at the St. James's Arms be forthwith arrested, as he is bent upon committing a rash and sanguinary act. By a ludicrous blunder, he is mistaken for Lord Peter, who is expected at the same house for the purpose of meeting Miss Julia Dobbs, his intended; and who is to be seized and carried off as an insane person, in order that his relatives may not discover him. As he is being forced into the carriage, however, the lady discovers that he is unknown to her; and she refuses to accompany him. At the same moment a letter from his rival is put into his hands, saying that the challenge was a ruse, and that the writer is far on his way to Gretna to be married to Miss Emily Brown. Determined not to be thus balked of a wife, Mr. Trott offers himself to Miss Dobbs on the spot, is accepted, and starts instanter for the same place in a post-chaise and four. Wilson, Fanny. A young lady affianced to Mr. Charles Tomkins. Wilson, Mary. The innamorata of Mr. John Johnson.

THE VILLAGE COQUETTES

Benson, Lucy. A beautiful village girl betrothed to George Edmunds, a humble but worthy man. Squire Norton, a man much her superior in social station, tries to lead her astray, and for a time she coquets with him; but before it is too late, she sees her error, rejects the elopement he urges, and returns to her discarded lover.

Benson, Old. Her father; a small farmer.

Benson, Young. His son; Lucy's brother.

Edmunds, George. A young man in love with Lucy Benson. Flam, The Honorable Sparkins. Friend to Squire Norton; fascinated by Rose, a village beauty, whom he ineffectually endeavors to lead from the path of virtue, though she is at first flattered by his attentions.