Charles James Lever
Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066238452
Table of Contents
NOTICE, PRELIMINARY AND EXPLANATORY,
CHAPTER II. THE BOAR’S HEAD AT ROTTERDAM.
CHAPTER III. VAN HOOGENDORP’S TALE.
CHAPTER IV. MEMS. AND MORALIZINGS.
CHAPTER V. ANTWERP—“THE FISCHER’S HAUS.”
CHAPTER VI. MR. O’KELLY’S TALE
CHAPTER VII. O’KELLY’S TALE.—CONTINUED.
CHAPTER VIII. MR. O’KELLY’S TALE.—CONCLUDED
CHAPTER XI, A FRAGMENT OF FOREST LIFE
CHAPTER XIII. THE ABBE’S STORY
CHAPTER XVI. A MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XVII. THE BORE—A SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RETREAT FROM LEIPSIC
CHAPTER XIX. THE TOP OF A DILIGENCE
CHAPTER XX. BONN AND STUDENT LIFE
CHAPTER XXII. SPAS AND GRAND DUKEDOMS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TRAVELLING PARTY
CHAPTER XXIV. THE GAMBLING-ROOM
CHAPTER XXV. A WATERING-PLACE DOCTOR
CHAPTER XXVI. SIR HARRY WYCHERLEY
CHAPTER XXVII. THE RECOVERY HOUSE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ‘DREAM OF DEATH’
CHAPTER XXIX. THE STRANGE GUEST
CHAPTER XXXI. THE BARON’S STORY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE WARTBURG AND EISENACH.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE HERR. DIRECTOR KLUG.
NOTICE, PRELIMINARY AND EXPLANATORY,
BY THE EDITOR.
When some years ago we took the liberty, in a volume of our so-called “Confessions,” to introduce to our reader’s acquaintance the gentleman whose name figures in the title page, we subjoined a brief notice, by himself, intimating the intention he entertained of one day giving to the world a farther insight into his life and opinions, under the title of “Loiterings of Arthur O’Leary.”
It is more than probable that the garbled statement and incorrect expression of which we ourselves were guilty respecting our friend had piqued him into this declaration, which, on mature consideration, he thought fit to abandon. For, from that hour to the present one, nothing of the kind ever transpired, nor could we ascertain, by the strictest inquiry, that such a proposition of publication had ever been entertained in the West-End, or heard of in the “Row.”
The worthy traveller had wandered away to “pastures new,” heaven knows where! and, notwithstanding repeated little paragraphs in the second advertizing column of the “Times” newspaper, assuring, “A. O’L. that if he would inform his friends where a letter would reach, all would be forgiven,” &c. the mystery of his whereabouts remained unsolved, save by the chance mention of a north-west passage traveller, who speaks of a Mr. O’Leary as having presided at a grand bottle-nosed whale dinner in Behring’s Straits, some time in the autumn of 1840; and an allusion, in the second volume of the Chevalier de Bertonville’s Discoveries