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CONTENTS

OF

THE FIFTH VOLUME.

THE IDLER.

NUMB.

1 IDLER's character

2 Invitation to correspondents

3 Idler's reason for writing .

4 Charities and Hospitals . . .

5 Proposals for a female army, .

6 Lady's performance on horseback

7 Scheme for news-writers .

8 Plan of military discipline.

9 Progress of idleness

10 Political credulity . .

11 Discourses on the weather.

12 Marriages why advertised

78 The imaginary housewife '.

14 Robbery of time ,

15. Treacle's complaint of his wife

16 Drugget's retirement

17 Expedients of Idlers

18 Drugget vindicated.

19 Whirler's character

20 Louisbourg's history

21 Linger's history of listlessness

22 Imprisonment of debtors .

23 Uncertainty of friendship .

24 Man does not always think .

25 New actors on the theatre.

26 Betty Broom's history

27 Power of habits .

28 Wedding day-Grocer's wife-Chairman