Chip: The Roll of Cookery
6/6/1857
Talking Ships
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Tilling the Devil's Acre
13/6/1857
The Patron Saint of Paris
The Circulation
Pierre Flourents, Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang, 1854.
The Dead Secret [xxiii]
Story of a Grave
Make Your Game, Gentlemen!
Louis Désiré Vérnon, Mémoires d'un bourgeois de Paris, 1853-55.
Chip: Dogs before Men
Parish Doctors
The Best Authority
20/6/1857
The comic device of a distracted search for a frequently named but always elusive figure which Dickens uses in this entertaining diatribe against portentous gossips prefigures Twemlow's bewildered attempts to identify the Veneerings' 'oldest friend' in Our Mutual Friend.
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Grayrigg Grange
Chip: Why Is the Negro Black?
Based on John W. Draper, Human Physiology (1856).
Handel
Based on Victor Schoelcher, The Life of Handel (1857).
The Milky and Watery Way
Duelling in England
1) Advertisement for the Fifteenth Volume of Household Words. 2) Advertisement for The Dead Secret.
Up and Down the Line
27/6/1857
How the Old Love Fared