The book collects 25 essays written by Charles Lamb. They are: 01. Blakesmoor In H ---Shire 02. Poor Relations 03. Stage Illusion 04. To the Shade of Elliston 06. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 07. The Old Margate Hoy 08. The Convalescent 09. Sanity Of True Genius 10. Captain Jackson 11. The Superannuated Man 12. The Genteel Style In Writing 13. Barbara S----- 14. The Tombs In The Abbey, In a letter to R. H. Esq. 15. Amicus Redivivus 16. Sonnets Of Sir Philip Sydney 17. Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago 18. Barrenness Of The Imaginative Faculty In The Productions Of Modern Art 19. Rejoicings On the New Year's Coming Of Age 20. The Wedding 21. The Child-Angel, A Dream 22. A Death-Bed, In a letter to R. H. Esq. of B. 23. Old China 24. Confessions Of A Drunkard 25. Popular Fallacies