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CORNELIUS O'DOWD UPON MEN AND WOMEN AND OTHER THINGS IN GENERAL I care not a fig For Tory or Wig, But sit in a bowl and kick round me. LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY 1873. NOTICE AMIABLE AXD ACCOMPLISHED READER,— As I have very little to say for myself that is not said in some of my opening pages, there is no need that I should delay you on the threshold. You will learn, if you take the trouble, by what course of events I came to my present pursuit, con­ verting myself into what a candid, but not compli­ mentary, friend has called " a diverting Vagabond." The fact was, I gave the world every reasonable opportunity of knowing that they had a remarkable man amongst them, but, with a stupidity all their own, they wouldn't see it; so that when the solicitor who once gave me a brief died—I believe it was a softening of the brain—I burned my wig and retired from.the profession. Now, let people say what they may, it is by no means easy to invent a new line of life; and even if you should, there are scores of people ready to start up and seize on your discovery; and as I write these lines I am by no means sure that to-morrow will not see some other Cornelius O'Dowd inviting the public to a vi Notice. feast of wisdom and life-knowledge, with perhaps a larger stock than my own of " things not generally known." I will disparage no mans wares. There is, I feel assured, a market for us all. My rivals, or my imitators, whichever you like to call them, may prove superior to me; they may be more ingenious, more various, more witty, or more profound ; but take my word for it, bland Reader, there is always something in the original tap, whether the liquor be Harvey sauce or L.L. whisky, and such is mine. You are, in coming to me, frequenting the old house ; and if I could only descend to it, I could print you more testimonials to success than Mr. Morrison's of the pills, or the other man of cod-liver oil, but I scorn to give the names, imparted as they were in secret gratitude. One only trick of the trade I will conde­ scend to—it is to assure you that you had need to beware of counterfeits, and that no O'Dowderies are genuine except signed by me. ((yi'Wcj-t.o ^ u^vo-cL, My heart is broke with requests for my auto­ graph. Will a sympathizing public accept the above?—which, of course, will be immediately pho­ tographed. CONTENTS. -•- PAGE MVSELF X ADVENTURERS 8 A FRIEND OF GIOBERTIS 20 THE ITALIANS AND THEIR EMPEROR 32 GARIBALDI'S WORSHIPPERS 36 SOMETHING ABOUT SOLFERINO AND SHIPS . .42 THE STRANGER AT THE CROCE DI MALTA . .49 THE STRANGE MAN'S SORROVIT .... -33 ITALIAN LAVS^ AND JUSTICE 62 R. N. F., THE GREAT CHEVALIER D'INDUSTRIE OF OUR DAY 71 GARIBALDI 93 THE DECLINE OF WHIST 102 FOREIGN CLUBS 112 DECLINE OF THE DRAMA n8 A GRUMBLE 126 OF OUR BROTHERS BEYOND THE BORDER . .13a THE RULE NISI ijy LINGUISTS 144 SERIALS AND THREE VOLUMES it.t vin Contents. PAGE BE ALWAYS READY WITH THE PISTOL 160 THE iViAN VERSUS HIS WORK 170 A "Now" AND A "THEN" 182 SERVANTS 189 REFORMATORIES 194 SCIENTIFIC CONGRESSES 205 PAESONITIS 211 ABOUT DOCTORS . 219 ON CERTAIN DROLL PEOPLE THE PEOPLE WHO COME LATE . 230 GOING INTO PARLIAMENT . 237 CONTINENTAL EXCURSIONISTS 24.2 A WORD FOR AN ILL-USED CLASS 250 A NEW CAREER ...