CHAPTER I. | In Which Morris Suspects |
CHAPTER II. | In Which Morris takes Action |
CHAPTER III. | The Lecturer at Large |
CHAPTER IV. | The Magistrate in the Luggage Van |
CHAPTER V. | Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box |
CHAPTER VI. | The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First |
CHAPTER VII. | In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice |
CHAPTER VIII. | In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday |
CHAPTER IX. | Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury’s Holiday |
CHAPTER X. | Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand |
CHAPTER XI. | The Maestro Jimson |
CHAPTER XII. | Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand |
CHAPTER XIII. | The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second |
CHAPTER XIV. | William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage |
CHAPTER XV. | The Return of the Great Vance |
CHAPTER XVI. | Final Adjustment of the Leather Business |
‘Nothing like a little judicious levity,’ says Michael Finsbury in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the reader’s hand. The authors can but add that one of them is old enough to be ashamed of himself, and the other young enough to learn better.
How very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author, and, when he smilingly skims the surface of a work of fiction, how little does he consider the hours of toil, consultation of authorities, researches in the Bodleian, correspondence with learned and illegible Germans—in one word, the vast scaffolding