Preface. - Prologue - lines to my pen - 1854. - Lita of the Nile: a tale of ancient Egypt. - Pausias and Glycera; or, The first flower-painter. - Kadisha; or, The first jealousy. - Mount Arafa. - The well of Saint John. - Buscombe; or, A Michaelmas goose. - Epilogue - lines to fame - 1894.