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  Book II.

  CHAPTER I. The Hero in London.--Pleasure is often the shortest, as it is the earliest road to Wisdom, and we may say of the World what Zeal-of- the-Land-Busy says of the Pig-Booth, "We escape so much of the other Vanities by our early Entering"

  CHAPTER II. Gay Scenes and Conversations.--The New Exchange and the Puppet- Show.--The Actor, the Sexton, and the Beauty

  CHAPTER III. More Lions

  CHAPTER IV. An intellectual Adventure

  CHAPTER V. The Beau in his Den, and a Philosopher discovered

  CHAPTER VI. A universal Genius.--Pericles turned Barber.--Names of Beauties in 171-.--The Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club

  CHAPTER VII. A Dialogue of Sentiment succeeded by the Sketch of a Character, in whose Eyes Sentiment was to Wise Men what Religion is to Fools; namely, a Subject of Ridicule

  CHAPTER VIII. Lightly won, lightly lost.--A Dialogue of equal Instruction and Amusement.--A Visit to Sir Godfrey Kneller

  CHAPTER IX. A Development of Character, and a long Letter; a Chapter, on the whole, more important than it seems

  CHAPTER X. Being a short Chapter, containing a most important Event

  CHAPTER XI. Containing more than any other Chapter in the Second Book of this History